thought

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. Past tense and past participle of think.
2. n. The act or process of thinking; cogitation.
3. n. A product of thinking. See Synonyms at idea.
4. n. The faculty of thinking or reasoning.
5. n. The intellectual activity or production of a particular time or group: ancient Greek thought; deconstructionist thought.
6. n. Consideration; attention: didn't give much thought to what she said.
7. n. Intention; purpose: There was no thought of coming home early.
8. n. Expectation or conception: She had no thought that anything was wrong.
9. idiom. a thought To a small degree; somewhat: You could be a thought more considerate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act or the product of thinking. Psychologically considered, thought has two elements—one a series of phenomena of consciousuess during an interval of time in which there is no noticeable interruption of the current of association by outward reactions (peripheral sensations and muscular efforts); the other a more or less definite acquisition to the stock of mental possessions—namely, a notion, which may repeatedly present itself and be recognized as ideutical. The former of these elements is the act of thinking as it appears to consciousness; the latter is the lasting effect produced upon the mind, likewise considered from the point of view of consciousness. In the most concrete sense, a single step in a process of thinking; a notion; a reflection.
2. n. The condition or state of a person during such mental action.
3. n. A synonym of cognition in the common threefold division of modes of consciousness: from the fact that thought, as above described, embraces every cognitive process except sensation, which is a mode of consciousness more allied to volition than to other kinds of cognition.
4. n. The objective element of the intellectual product.
5. n. A judgment or mental proposition, in which form the concept always appears.
6. n. An argument, inference, or process of reasoning, by which process the concept is always produced.
7. n. A concept, considered as something which, under the influence of experience and mental action, has a development of its own, more or less independent of individual caprices, and that in the life of an individual, and in history: as, the gradual development of Greek thought.
8. n. The subjective element of intellectual activity; thinking.
9. n. The understanding; intellect.
10. n. An intention; a design; a purpose; also, a half-formed determination or expectation with reference to future action: with of: as, I have some thought of going to Europe.
11. n. plural A particular frame of mind; a mood or temper.
12. n. Doubt; perplexity.
13. n. Care; trouble; anxiety; grief.
14. n. A slight degree; a fraction; a trifle; a little: used in the adverbial phrase a thought: as, a thought too small.
15. n. Preterit and past participle of think.
16. n. Preterit of think.
17. n. A rower's seat; a thwart.

Wiktionary

1. n. form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
2. n. uncountable the process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking.
3. n. way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
4. v. Simple past tense and past participle of think.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. imp. & p. p. of think.
2. n. The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.
3. n. Meditation; serious consideration.
4. n. That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.
5. n. Solicitude; anxious care; concern.
6. n. colloq. A small degree or quantity; a trifle

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
2. n. the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
3. n. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
4. n. the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about