think

== English == === Alternative forms === thinck, thinke (obsolete) === Pronunciation === enPR: thĭngk, IPA(key): /θɪŋk/, [θɪŋk] (Appalachia) IPA(key): [θæŋk] (th-fronting) IPA(key): [fɪŋk] (Ireland) IPA(key): [tɪŋk] Rhymes: -ɪŋk === Etymology 1 === From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”). Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken, dinken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken, dinken (“to think”), German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål tenke (“to think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tenkja (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Latin tongeō (“know”). ==== Verb ==== think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought) (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind. c. 1650, Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress: Had we but world enough and time / This coyness, lady, were no crime. / We would sit down, and think which way / To walk, and pass our long love's day. (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on] (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as. 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 182. […] one man showed me a young oak which he had transplanted from behind the town, thinking it an apple-tree. (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something). To presume; to venture. (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Synonyms ===== (ponder): See Thesaurus:ponder (communicate to oneself in one's mind): See Thesaurus:think (be of the opinion (that)): See Thesaurus:have opinion (guess, reckon): guess See Thesaurus:suppose (consider, judge, regard something as): See Thesaurus:deem ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== think (usually uncountable, plural thinks) (chiefly UK) An act of thinking; consideration (of something). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken (also thinchen, thünchen), from Old English þyncan (“to seem, appear”), from Proto-Germanic *þunkijaną (“to seem”). Cognate with Dutch dunken (“to seem, appear”), German dünken (“to seem, appear”), Danish tykkes (“to seem”), Swedish tycka (“to seem, think, regard”), Icelandic þykja (“to be regarded, be considered, seem”). More at methinks. ==== Verb ==== think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought) (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear. ===== Translations ===== === References === == Middle English == === Verb === think alternative form of thinken == Scots == === Etymology === From earlier thynk, from Middle English thynken, thinken, from Old English þencan, þenċean. === Verb === think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thocht) (transitive) to think, to conceive, to have in mind (transitive) to believe, to hold as an opinion, to judge; to feel, to have as an emotion (transitive or intransitive) to ponder, to meditate, to consider, to reflect on (transitive or intransitive) to have scruples, to doubt, to reconsider to devise, to work out, to contrive (archaic, with shame) to be ashamed === Noun === think (plural thinks) thought, opinion, frequently one’s own opinion === References === “think” in Dictionary of the Scots Language, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh, retrieved 19 June 2018.