think

Forms

1.To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
- 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.
2.To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- "I should phone my mother," I thought.
3.To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
- Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
4.To conceive of something or someone
- I tend to think of her as rather ugly.

1.An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
- I'll have a think about that and let you know.

Very common· #53

Etymology tree

Proto-West Germanic *þankijan

Old English þenċan

Middle English thinken

English think