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Think About


Synonyms: Think About

Synonyms: entertain (v), flirt with (v), think of (v), toy with (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Think About

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prohibition

Phrase: that will never do; don't you dare; forget it; don't even think about doing it;"go ahead; make my day ".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Think About

English words defined with "think about": Any morebroodconsiderdebate, deliberate, dwellgloatin the meantimemeantime, meanwhile, mootpuzzleturn overworry. (references)
Specialty definitions using "think about": Babel, tower ofEavesdrophash collision, Hon'iKnuthMark studyPeter, Second Epistle ofReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Roguesaw, storyTalking, topic driftYou know you've been hacking too long when, You know you've been hacking too long when.... (references)

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Modern Usage: Think About

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I don't think about it, Shakes. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

When you think about it, it's just as arbitrary as drinking coffee. (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon)

Now did you answer cause you thought that's what I wanted to hear or did you think about what I said and answer cause you truly believe that to be right? (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

Just you think about that, Lebowski. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

How can I make a reservation for a hotel room? Think about it. A kid coming into a hotel, making a reservation? (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes)

Lyrics

The only thing I think about (Whip Appeal; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Perri Smith)

I think about you every night (Hello Again; performing artist: Neil Diamond; writing credit: Neil Diamond and Alan Lindgren)

And if you ever think about me (Don't Turn Around; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

How many times will I think about the things (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply)

Baby, when I think about you (Feel Like Making Love; performing artist: Bad Company)

Clever

You better think about the future, for it's where you will spend the rest of your life. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Think About It (1968)

I'll Think About It (1975)

Song Titles

I WILL ALWAYS THINK ABOUT YOU (performing artist: New Colony 6)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Think About

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization (reference)

  • How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (reference)

  • Reading Pictures: What We Think About When We Look at Art (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • How to Raise and Teach a Thinking Child : Helping Young Children Think About What They Do and Why (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Think About

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Life without a driver's license? : Think about it before you drink and drive.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

What's Your Excuse? : Think About It!.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Now you got something pretty to think about.Credit: Library of Congress.

13 things to think about in difficult times.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Think About

AuthorQuotation

Charles Lamb

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.

Helen Keller

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Richard Whately

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''

William Hazlitt

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Think About

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

It was very big to think about everything and everywhere.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

We must think about this.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Think About

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

You're angry and tired and the more you think about the assignment, the tenser you become. (references)

Think about things that will help you cope. Many people find listening to music very helpful. (references)

When people think about bats, they often imagine things that are not true. Bats are not blind. (references)

Business

Also, the installed base will become a good opportunity in other related product groups such as peripherals to seriously think about setting up operations in the country. (references)

Civil Liberties

Egypt

On May 6, the Islamic Research Center called for the banning from circulation of two books, "The Woes of Toads," by Alaa Hamed and "A Call to Think About the Quran and the Hadith," by Ibrahim Abu Khalil. (references)

Economic History

Canada

We believe that for export-ready US firms, or for companies that are just beginning to think about exporting, Canada is the logical first choice. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Think About

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Barbara Eden

Oh, sure, because you don't think about anything else but what you're doing. That's your world. It's afterwards that's bad.

Cary Goldstein

Well, exactly. We believe that, you know, rather than have Earle sit and rot in the jail cell with lots of time to think about, do I really want to do this, maybe I'll just tell them what they need to know about Robert, they bailed him.

Lynne Cheney

You know, I mostly don't think about it. And I think I take my instruction from Dick on that. You know how you handle it. You worry about what you can change, you know. And I am a bit of a nag sometimes.

Nellie Connally

The third bullet. And, see, just think about it. Six seconds a shot. John turns, can't see anything. He turns over here, he can't see anything. He starts back and there's another shot. That bullet couldn't have just hung in the air.

Priscilla Presley

I mean, I threatened them. I said, you're ruining my life. I mean, I gave them a lot of things to think about, too, that they were ruining my life and probably my fate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Think About

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We can laugh about this, but you think about it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Think About

Expressions using "think about": don't even think about doing it please think about it. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Think About

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  when you think about me

73

  i think about you

70

  something to think about

12

  think about it

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Think About

Language Translations for "think about"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

oorweeg (account, consider, esteem, reflect, reflect on, regard, take, take into account, think). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

gjykoj (adjudge, adjudicate, arbitrate, consider, damn, daresay, denounce, impeach, judge, look in the matter, reason, referee, try, umpire). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обмислям (agitate, bethink, cogitate, consider, debate, deliberate, digest, meditate, mull, ponder, pore, reason, revolve, speculate, study, think out, think over, turn over in one's mind), мисля си за, мисля за (think of), интересувам се от (follow, go in for). (various references)

   

Danish

  

synes (account, deem, meditate, opine, reflect on, think, think to oneself). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zinnen op (reflect on, think), zinnen (meditate, phrases, please, reflect on, think, think to oneself), wikken (reflect on, think), overdenken (reflect on, think), nadenken (meditate, reflect on, think, think to oneself), bedenken (fancy, imagine, invent, reflect on, think). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

pripensi (reflect on, think). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ajattele ehdotustani (think about my proposal). (various references)

   

French

  

réfléchir (think). (various references)

   

German

  

nachdenken (cogitate, consider, contemplate, contemplation, deliberate, meditate, meditation, ponder, reflect, reflection, speculate, think, think on, think over, think to oneself, thought, to cogitate), bedenken (bethink, compunction, consider, consideration, consult, demur, doubt, mental reservation, misgiving, preconceive, qualm, qualms, reflect, reflect on, reflection, remember, reservation, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, take into consideration, think, think on). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εξετάζω (consider, examine, go over, inquire, investigate, look over, probe, pry, query, question, quiz, screen, scrutinise), αναλογίζομαι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לתת דעתו (pay attention). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

memikirkan (meditate over), memikiri (be aware, mindful of, worry over). (various references)

   

Italian

  

riflettere (be reflected, bethink, consider, deliberate, image, ponder, reflect, think, think over). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

考えてみれば (if you think about it). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かんがえてみれば (if you think about it). (various references)

   

Manx

  

smooinaghtyn er (consider, contemplate, envisage). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inkthay aboutay

   

Polish

  

przemyśleć. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

refletir (bethink, consider, esteem, glass, glisten, image, meditate, mirrors, reflect, reflect on, regard, return, reverberate, ruminate, see, speculate, take into account, think, think over), pensar sobre (think over), pensar a respeito, pensar (believe, brain, debate, guess, imagine, reason, reflect on, see, think, thinking, Trow). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se gândi la (bethink oneself of, conceive of, think of). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

razmisliti o. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reflexionar (consider, debate, deliberate, doubts, meditate, ponder, reflect, reflect on, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, think, think over). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tänka på (consult, frame, have in mind, mind, think of), fundera på (debate, reflect, think of), betänka (bear in mind, consider, reflect, reflect on, think, think of), besinna (change one's mind, consider, reflect, reflect on, think, think of), begrunda (contemplate, reflect on, think), övertänka (reflect on, think). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

meddwl am. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Think About

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-k-n-o-t-t-u"

-2 letters: outthank, outthink.

-4 letters: battik, bhakti, bohunk, bonita, button, kation, obtain, outhit, tanuki.

-5 letters: about, baith, batik, baton, battu, biont, biota, bunko, habit, haiku, haunt, knout, nubia, tabun, taint, takin, tanto, taunt, thank, think, thunk, titan, unhat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Think About


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 68 69 6E 6B      41 62 6F 75 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01000001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#105 &#110 &#107 &#32 &#65 &#98 &#111 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0068 0069 006E 006B      0041 0062 006F 0075 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

547475807723568818786

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