“think” – English explanatory dictionary

noun (informal.) a period when you think, the act of thinking ○ Let me have a little think and I’ll tell you what we should do. ○ Have a think about what I’ve just said. ○ We really need to have another think about the plan. □ to have another think coming to have to change your plans ○ If he thinks he’s going to tell me how to do my job, he’s got another think coming.

verb 1. to use your mind ○ We never think about what people might say, we always do what we think is right. □ to think twice to consider very carefully ○ Think twice before you sign that contract. ○ I’d think twice about spending all the money you’ve saved. 2. to have an opinion ○ I think London is a nicer town to live in than Frankfurt. ○ Everyone thinks we’re mad to go on holiday in December. ○ The weather forecasters think it’s going to rain. ○ The gang is thought to be based in Spain. 3. to make a plan to do something ○ We’re thinking we might open an office in New York.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thought p. pr. & vb. n. Thinking.] [OE. thinken, properly, to seem, from AS. þyncean (cf. Methinks), but confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean (imp. þohte); akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem, OL. tongere to know. Cf. Thank, Thought.]
1. To seem or appear; - - used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought. These are genuine Anglo-Saxon expressions, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions me is in the dative case.
2. To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. “For that I am
I know, because I think.” Dryden.
3. Specifically: — (a) To call anything to mind; to remember; as I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. “Well thought upon; I have it here.” Shak. (b) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. “And when he thought thereon, he wept.” Mark xiv. 72. “He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?” Luke xii. 17. (c) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as I think it will rain to-morrow. “Let them marry to whom they think best.” Num. xxxvi. 6. (d) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. “I thought to promote thee unto great honor.” Num. xxiv. 11. “Thou thought’st to help me.” Shak. (e) To presume; to venture. “Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father.” Matt. iii. 9. To think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts preëminently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. Thinking is employed by Hamilton as ´comprehending all our collective energies.´ It is defined by Mansel as ´the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts,´by Lotze as ´the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences.´ See Thought. To think better of. See under Better. — To think much of, or To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly. Syn. — To expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe. See Expect, Guess.

v. t. 1. To conceive; to imagine. “Charity … thinketh no evil.” 1 Cor. xiii. 4,5.
2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.] “So little womanhood
And natural goodness, as to think the death
Of her own son.” Beau. & Fl.
3. To believe; to consider; to esteem. “Nor think superfluous other’s aid.” Milton. To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] ´[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies.´ Milton. — To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] ´He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.´ Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]

n. Act of thinking; a thought. [Obs. or Colloq.]