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Think Over


Synonyms: Think Over

Synonyms: chew over (v), contemplate (v), excogotate (v), meditate (v), mull (v), mull over (v), muse (v), ponder (v), reflect (v), ruminate (v), speculate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Think Over

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

Inquiry

Bring in question, bring into question, subject to examination; put to the proof; (experiment); audit, tax, pass in review; take into consideration; (think over); take counsel.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Think Over

English words defined with "think over": considerdebate, deliberatemootpuzzleturn over. (references)
Specialty definitions using "think over": AIDXdrag and dropMacaberNegroReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, RogueScornful Dogs will eat dirty Puddings, Seymour Cray, some random Xwave a dead chickenX Window System. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: Think Over

AuthorQuotation

Seneca

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: Think Over

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

Albanian

  

peshoj çdo gjë (think out), diskutoj (assess, canvass, confer, consult, counsel, debate, deliberate, discuss, dispute, expostulate, moot, negotiate, quarrel, reason, talk over, thrash out), bluaj në mend (think out). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فكر فيها مليا, ‏فكر (bethink, cerebrate, consider, contemplate, idea, meditate, reason, reflect, speculate on, think, think out, thought), ‏تأمل (cogitative, consider, contemplate, contemplation, meditate, meditation, muse, observation, ponder, pore over, rumble, ruminate, rumination, speculate, study, think, think out, thinking). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обмислям (agitate, bethink, cogitate, consider, debate, deliberate, digest, meditate, mull, ponder, pore, reason, revolve, speculate, study, think about, think out, turn over in one's mind). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

考慮 (consideration, to consider, to think over). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozmyslit, rozmyslet, přemýšlet (contemplate, meditate, muse, reflect, speculate, study, think). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

punnita (consider, ponder, weigh), pohtia (consider, deliberate, discuss), miettiä (consider, contemplate, meditate, reflect, think, think to oneself), harkita (account, consider, deliberate, esteem, ponder, reflect upon, regard, take into account, weigh). (various references)

   

French

  

peser, contempler, bien réfléchir. (various references)

   

German

  

nachdenken (cogitate, consider, contemplate, contemplation, deliberate, meditate, meditation, ponder, reflect, reflection, speculate, think, think about, think on, think to oneself, thought, to cogitate), überlegen (consider, deliberate, lay over, masterfully, ponder, predominant, put over, supercilious, superior, think, think about, think on, to deliberate, to reason), überdenken (consider, reconsideration, rethink, review, to mull). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξανασκέφτομαι (rethink, think again, think twice). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשקול שוב (reconsider, sleep on it, think better of it), לעין (consider, look up, meditate, peruse, ponder, study), לחשוב (consider, figure, intend, mean, meditate, reckon, think), להתישב בדעתו (reconsider, settle down), להרהר ב- (cogitate, mull over). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

végiggondol (think through), megfontol (measure, think of, to cogitate, to contemplate, to deliberate, to reflect, to think of, to weigh), elgondolkodik valamin (pore over), átgondol valamit. (various references)

   

Italian

  

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

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

思い巡らす (to think over), 巡らす (to encircle, to enclose, to surround, to think over, to work out). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おもいめぐらす (to think over), めぐらす (to encircle, to enclose, to surround, to think over, to work out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inkthay overay

   

Portuguese

  

refletir (bethink, consider, esteem, glass, glisten, image, meditate, mirrors, reflect, reflect on, regard, return, reverberate, ruminate, see, speculate, take into account, think, think about), pensar sobre (think about). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

reflecta la. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вдуматься (consider), обсудить (talk over), обдумать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

razmisliti (bethink, reflect, think), razmišljati (cogitate, contemplate, debate, deliberate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate), promisliti (reason, rethink, think better of it). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reflexionar (consider, debate, deliberate, doubts, meditate, ponder, reflect, reflect on, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, think, think about), razonar (argue, deliberate, reason, reflect, think, think about), pensar (cogitate, contemplate, develop, dream, fodder, Gage, gauge, guess, hope, incline, know, like, look at, look forward to, ponder, reflect, see about, tender, think, think out, trust), meditar (cogitate, contemplate, deliberate, digest, dwell on, meditate, muse, perpend, ponder, reflect, think, turn over), imaginar (construct, figure, figure up, guess, imagine, suspect, think, think out, think up), estudiar (analyse, analyze, con, design, discuss, do, go through, investigate, learn, lecture, look at, plan, ponder, qualify, read, research, study, survey, take, think about, think out, work), descansar (diversify, lay over, lie, lie up, recline, repose, rest, take a rest), creer (account, accredit, believe, consider, create, deem, depend, expect, fancy, guess, hold against, hope, look at, make, suppose, think, trust), consultar con la almohada, considerar (account, behold, consider, contemplate, deem, define, esteem, judge, look at, look on, look upon, perpend, ponder, reckon, regard, set down, take into account, take into consideration, think, view, weigh). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tänka över (consider). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

düşünüp taşınmak (calculate, chew, cogitate, cogitate over, debate, debate with oneself, look round, mull over, ponder, ponder over, pore, reason, reason out, reflect, revolve, ruminate, turn over, turn over in one's mind, weigh, worry out), üzerinde düşünmek (cudgel one's brains, give thought to, ponder on, ponder over, ponder upon, pore on, pore upon, repose on, view). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

обмірковувати (cast, chew, deliberate, discuss, mull over, perpend, ponder, ponderate, revolve, turn over), зважувати (balance, heft, scale, weigh). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Think Over

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

pensito, recogita, recogitabam, recogitat, recogitate, recogitet, recordaberis, recordamur, recordans, recordarentur, recordata, recordatum, recordatur, recordatusque, recordetur, reputabat, reputabit, reputabitur, reputabuntur, reputans, reputantes, reputas, reputat, reputata, reputatae, reputati, reputatum, reputatur, reputatus, reputavi, reputavimus, reputavit, reputent, reputentur, reputes, reputetur. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Think Over

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overthink.

Words within the letters "e-h-i-k-n-o-r-t-v"

-1 letter: overthin.

-2 letters: invoker, rethink, thinker, thriven.

-3 letters: ethion, heriot, heroin, hinter, hokier, honker, honkie, hornet, invert, invoke, norite, nother, orient, reknit, renvoi, thrive, throne, throve, tinker, tonier.

-4 letters: eikon, enoki, envoi, heron, hiker, honer, hover, inert, inker, inter, intro, irone, ither, kiter, kithe, koine, krone, niter, nitre, nitro, north, noter, other, overt, ovine, reink.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-k-n-o-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: overthinks.

 

+3 letters: overthinking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Think Over


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

54 68 69 6E 6B      4F 76 65 72

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

    

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

01010100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#105 &#110 &#107 &#32 &#79 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0068 0069 006E 006B      004F 0076 0065 0072

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

5474758077249887184

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