think

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And don't you dare think for one second that you can "just talk to the CEO first.

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Quick take

an instance of deliberate thinking; "I need to give it a good think"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of think gathered in one view.

noun

an instance of deliberate thinking; "I need to give it a good think"

verb

judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

verb

expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for think.

noun

an instance of deliberate thinking; "I need to give it a good think"

verb

judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

verb

See also: opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess

verb

use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"

verb

recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"

See also: remember, retrieve, recall, recollect

verb

imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!"

verb

focus one's attention on a certain state; "Think big"; "think thin"

verb

have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"

verb

decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting; "Can you think what to do next?"

verb

ponder; reflect on, or reason about; "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"

verb

dispose the mind in a certain way; "Do you really think so?"

verb

have or formulate in the mind; "think good thoughts"

verb

be capable of conscious thought; "Man is the only creature that thinks"

verb

bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"

Example sentences

And don't you dare think for one second that you can "just talk to the CEO first.

That force was their evaporating margins; he was cornered and had to think of a way out.

You want to find a manager who thinks of himself as your equal rather than your slaver.

Having had the opportunity to hear you guys out a bit more, I don't think we're a great mutual fit.

He learned how to raise money by selling his business idea to other people who think like him.

I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn't use the goddamn website.

Programming is breaking a problem set down, thinking step by step through it, thinking of edge cases, and making it work.

There were a lot of wacky ones around externalizing services, but not as many as you might think.

I didn't like what I was doing, I thought the management was dumb, I just didn't think my work was very important.

I think they feed a culture of passivity and attention deficit.

He runs with an imperfect business plan because that's what his board thinks is best and because he's a slave to their opinions.

From the time Bezos issued his edict through the time I left, Amazon had transformed culturally into a company that thinks about everything in a services-first fashion.

I think they fragment human interaction into the smallest possible dopamine-inducing units.