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Definition: Thought |
ThoughtNoun1. The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind". 2. The process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought". 3. The organized beliefs of a period or group or individual; "19th century thought" or "Darwinian thought". 4. A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thought" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Slang in 1811 | THOUGHT. What did thought do? lay'in bed and beshat himself, and thought he was up; reproof to any one who excuses himself for any breach of positive orders, by pleading that he thought to the contrary. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Thinking is a higher cognitive function and comprises activities like creative thinking, problem solving, and decision making. The analysis of thinking processes is part of cognitive psychology.
Also see Picture thinking
In the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, thinking means you tend to put a higher priority on impersonal factors than personal factors.
See also
- Picture thinking
- Abstract thinking
- Lateral thinking
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Thought is a process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. It is a process of mind. Concepts akin to thought are sentience, consciousness, idea and imagination.
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Synonyms: ThoughtSynonyms: cerebration (n), idea (n), intellection (n), mentation (n), opinion (n), persuasion (n), sentiment (n), thinking (n), view (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Noun: attention; mindfulness, presence of mind; Adjective: intentness, intentiveness; alertness; thought; advertence, advertency; observance, observation; consideration, reflection, perpension; heed; heedfulness; particularity; notice, regard; Verb: circumspection, diligence; (care); study, scrutiny inspection, introspection; revision, revisal. |
Idea | Noun: idea, notion, conception, thought, apprehension, impression, perception, image, gr/eidolon/gr, sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration; abstract idea; archetype, formative notion; guiding conception, organizing conception; image in the mind, regulative principle. |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
Supposition | Conceit, idea, thought; original idea, invention (imagination). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thought |
| English words defined with "thought": deep in thought ♦ free thought ♦ well thought out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thought": What You Get Is What You Never Thought You Had. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "thought": Waistcoateer. (references) |
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Screenplays | Lucien, I thought you were dead (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I walked all night, I walked as I had walked years before when my mind swarmed with guilt at the thought of killing (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Thought I'd take you over (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) The future lay sparkling ahead, and we thought we would know each other forever (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Wait! No, please wait. Before, when we were when you thought I was the Duke, you said that you loved me, a- and I wondered if (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) | |
Lyrics | Never thought it could be this way (Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven; performing artist: Bryan Adams) Though back in tha time, I never thought I'd see her face (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) I fell asleep on the couch, I thought we were going out (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) She opened up her eyes and thought (All That She Wants; performing artist: Ace Of Base) With a thought like that you can't go wrong (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith) | |
Clever | Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought. (references; author: unknown) I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. (references; author: unknown) True happiness may be sought, thought, or caught--but never bought. (references; author: unknown) Have an awesome day, and know that someone has thought about you today! (references; author: unknown) Sleeping on the job: Geez, I thought you (the boss) were gone for the day. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Have You Thought of Talking to the Director (1962) Food for Thought (1956) Thought to Kill (1954) The Power of Thought (1948) Hold That Thought (1924) | |
Song Titles | Once Was A Time I Thought (performing artist: The Mamas And The Papas) Thought Stayed Free (performing artist: Tom Paxton) | |
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 | Photomicrographs of the drug AZT were taken at magnifications of 30x and 50x. Used to illuminate the crystals were polarized and darkfield lighting techniques. AZT is thought to help prevent the replication of HIV, the AIDS virus, also known as HTLV-III. Credit: Larry Ostby (photographer). |  | The HHV-6, or the human herpes virus-6, was thought to infect b-cells and was at one time called HBLV, human b-lymphotropic virus. It is now known to infect t-cells as well. The HHV-6 is a double stranded DNA virus of the herpes family. The virus particles shown here have matured and are then released from the lymphocyte which has been infected. The "owl's eye" appearance of the virus particles is characteristic of the herpes family. Credit: Bernard Kramarsky (photographer). |
 | During the flu outbreak of 1918 H. influenzae was termed Pfeiffer's Bacillus, where it was found in the sputum of many influenza patients, and thought to be the cause of influenza. Credit: CDC. |  | The end of a Sun-like star's life was once thought to be simple: the star gracefully casts off ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Nova eruptions by dying stars were thought to be simple, predictable acts of violence. ... Credit: NASA. |  | Computer generated surface view of Gula Mons.For this image, we also have a special treat. Because the vertical scale on theseimages is so exaggerated (a factor of 22.5, remember), we thought you might wantto see what one of them would look like with a more realistic vertical scale.This image ofGula Mons( 8k) has beenaltered to more closely resemble the actual vertical scale. Credit: NASA. |
 | The Mayn River, seen here with what is thought to be a portion of the Anadyr River, flows through the far northeastern corner of Siberia. Credit: NASA. |  | Even the dogs thought it was cold. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A juvenile American Lobster in natural cobble habitat in Rhode Island waters. The blue coloring in lobsters is thought to occur when the crustacean eats primarily one type of food in the lab. However, blue lobsters are occasionally found in the wild as a genetic anomaly. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Figure 63. Van Dorn bottle created by Dr. William G. Van Dorn in 1956. It is questionable whether this should be considered a "modern" instrument given its materials of construction. However, on second thought, it is very similar to modern valve-closing bottles. Left: descending. Right: ascending. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Deep in thought !" by Carl Dwyer Commentary: "Sneeky photo of the boss, deep in thought : ))." | "Lavabo" by Tim LeBrasseur Commentary: "Thought it could be usefull! This is the bathroom lavabo." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | The actuality of thought is life. |
Blaise Pascal | By thought I embrace the universal. |
Bronson Alcott | Nature is thought immersed in matter. |
John Heywood | A penny for your thought. |
John Locke | Logic is the anatomy of thought. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Thought makes every thing fit for use. |
| The ancestor of every action is thought. | |
Thomas Gray | Thought would destroy their paradise. |
William Blake | One thought fills immensity. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | This is as ridiculous a way of resisting, as Juvenal thought it of fighting; ubi tu pulsas, ego vapulo tantum. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | When American military men approach some serious situation they are wont to write at the head of their directive the words "over-all strategic concept." There is wisdom in this, as it leads to clarity of thought. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Winnie the Pooh | A.A. Milne | Promise me, Pooh, that you won't forget me ever, because if I thought you would, I wouldn't leave |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She absolutely refused to allow me, which I then thought most unreasonable |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The whole skein of thought was tangled worse than ever |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | How often and how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | A new thought had struck him. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It appeared that the clue which he thought he had was broken |
Cymon and Iphigenia | John Dryden | He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | She has no priest to flirt with, he thought with conscious bitterness, remembering how he had seen her last |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I thought thou hadst been resolute |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Noah moved slowly, spoke seldom, and then so slowly that people who did not know him often thought him stupid |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Involved in conscious thought and language. (references) | |
These cells are thought to help protect the body against tumors. (references) | ||
Oxidation is thought to cause damage to tissues, including neurons. (references) | ||
Business | Japanese companies are thought to offer extremely competitive prices. (references) | |
The German fairs should not be thought of as strictly venues for doing business in Germany. (references) | ||
However, it was thought that imports from Thailand could possibly be assembled U.S. products. (references) | ||
Children | Djibouti | Child abuse exists; however, except for FGM, it is not thought to be common. (references) |
Thailand | Many are thought to come from neighboring countries, including Cambodia and Burma. (references) | |
Mexico | The law provides for the right to life, non-discrimination, healthy living conditions, protection against threats to liberty and physical abuse, a healthy family life, health services, equal treatment for persons with disabilities, education, pursuit of happiness, and freedom of thought and expression. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Colombia | These figures are thought to be low, since many victims do not report threats to the authorities or to NGO's. (references) |
Tanzania | Unlike in the previous year, police did not break up meetings attended by persons thought to be opposed to the Zanzibar Government. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | The Constitution provides for freedom of thought, speech, and convictions; however, the Government continued to restrict these rights severely. (references) | |
Economic History | Gabon | Little thought or plans have been made for an after-oil scenario. (references) |
Taiwan | Confucianism also is an honored school of thought and ethical code. (references) | |
Venezuela | It was thought that this would deregulate the market and improve profitability. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | Poor ventilation is thought to contribute to cardiac problems and lowered resistance to disease. (references) |
Guyana | It originally was thought that neither of the two youths had sustained gunshot wounds but had been beaten to death. (references) | |
Afghanistan | Most were thought to be dead or to have assimilated voluntarily into Afghan society, although some are alleged to be held against their will. (references) | |
Minorities | Nigeria | The Tiv, who are thought to have originated in the East African highlands, migrated to central Nigeria hundreds of years ago and are regarded as interlopers by the "indigenous" ethnic groups; however, in parts of Benue State the Tiv predominate. (references) |
Slovak Republic | It is concentrated primarily in the southern part of the country, and its population was registered at approximately 568,700 at the end of 1999 (150,000 of whom are thought to be Roma who speak Hungarian and choose to declare themselves as ethnic Hungarian). (references) | |
Political Economy | POLAND | There is also a protest/appeals process for tenders thought to be unfairly awarded. (references) |
Women | Philippines | Harassment of nonprofessionals by managers is thought to be a common practice in many sectors. (references) |
Worker Rights | Estonia | Destination countries are thought to include Finland, Sweden, Poland, and Germany. (references) |
China | Although he was thought to be scheduled for release in May (6 years from the time of his initial detention), the Government told foreign officials in February that he would not be released until January 2002. The Government confirmed that Chadrel Rinpoche was being held in a Sichuan prison and that he was in "good health." Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan ethnomusicologist sentenced in 1996 to 18 years in prison on charges of espionage, was incarcerated in a facility near Chengdu in Sichuan Province throughout the year. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" -- although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create. God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form," And lexicographers arose, a swarm! Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took, And catalogued each garment in a book. Now, from her leafy covert when she cries: "Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise And scan the list, and say without compassion: "Excuse us -- they are mostly out of fashion." Sigismund Smith |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Moses thought he could speak to God, Mohammed thought God spoke to him, Jesus thought he was the son of God. |
Heather Mills McCartney | Never published in America. So I thought, you know, it would be great because I could actually put it out and raise a lot of money, so all of my proceeds go to Adopt-A-Minefield. |
Laura Bush | We discussed early on, months ago what we wanted the Christmas to be like, and I thought this would be a really pretty hallway. |
Lynne Cheney | In Washington, D.C. And the first plane went in, and like everyone else, I thought and the security people with me thought that it was an accident. |
Mariah Carey | This is the one I had. It's kind of like a jokey one, but then when I found out that my grandmother had one, I thought it was just an interesting parallel. |
Rosie O'Donnell | My brother Danny, who is gay as well, introduced me to her. He met her at a fundraiser and thought we'd hit it off, and we did. |
Rush Limbaugh | Those of us who thought that Clinton's legacy would be corruption and sleaze were only half right. |
Trisha Meili | I don't remember what you just described. And in a lot of ways, as you were reading it I thought, I just can't believe that that was me. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | In case of war, it has by some been thought necessary. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Here it has been thought better never to resort to their evidence. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Every view which the subject admitted of was thought to have justified this conclusion. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This finishes the connected view I have thought it proper to give of our political and commercial relations in Europe. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Whether the elements of inherent force in the Republic have kept pace with its unparalleled progression in territory, population, and wealth has been the subject of earnest thought and discussion on both sides of the ocean. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | So far as possible the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | Commerce, education, and rapid transit of thought and matter by telegraph and steam have changed all this. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Some never moved from their old positions, some are constantly slipping back to the old ways of thought and the old action of seizing a musket and relying on force. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We believe that all men have the right to freedom of thought and expression. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Last February, because I thought this was so important, I created the White House Office of One America to promote racial reconciliation. |
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| "Thought" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 61.78% of the time. "Thought" is used about 49,918 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 61.78% | 30,838 | 279 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 19.13% | 9,551 | 996 |
| Noun (singular) | 19.09% | 9,528 | 999 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49,918 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "thought". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hashubah | N/A | Biblical | Thought |
| Sharar | N/A | Biblical | Thought |
| Zimmah | N/A | Biblical | Thought |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "thought": a bright thought ♦ a thought ♦ absorbed in thought ♦ abstract thought ♦ active thought ♦ as quick as thought ♦ association of thought ♦ be buried in thought ♦ be deep in thought ♦ be immersed in thought ♦ be lost in deep thought ♦ be lost in thought ♦ be thought highly of ♦ be wrapped in deep thought ♦ bright thought ♦ close thought ♦ compass of thought ♦ concealed thought ♦ Consciousness and thought diagnosis ♦ current of thought ♦ deep in thought ♦ deep thought ♦ deliberate thought ♦ deterministic school of thought ♦ diligent thought ♦ enwraped in thought ♦ exclusive thought ♦ flow of thought ♦ food for thought ♦ free thought ♦ freedom of thought ♦ game of thought ♦ give a thought ♦ give rise to thought ♦ give smb. food for thought ♦ give some thought to ♦ give thought to ♦ have some thought to ♦ High Thought ♦ Higher thought ♦ house of sober second thought ♦ imagination boggles at the thought ♦ immersed in thought ♦ intense thought ♦ irreconcilable thought ♦ labored thought ♦ line of thought ♦ lost in thought ♦ minute thought ♦ never thought of ♦ new Thought ♦ not to be thought of ♦ on second thought ♦ organ of thought ♦ plunged in thought ♦ profound thought ♦ quick as a thought ♦ rapt in thought ♦ reasoned thought ♦ school of thought ♦ seat of thought ♦ second thought ♦ stochastic school of thought ♦ succession of thought ♦ the thought flashed through his mind ♦ the wish the father to the thought ♦ thought about ♦ Thought Field Therapy ♦ thought of ♦ thought or thoughts ♦ thought reader ♦ Thought Therapy ♦ thought transference ♦ thread of thought ♦ to be thought of ♦ To take thought ♦ train of thought ♦ turn one's thought to ♦ underlying thought ♦ want of thought ♦ well thought of ♦ well thought out ♦ what in the world! who would have thought it! ♦ what You Get Is What You Never Thought You Had ♦ whistle for want of thought ♦ without thought. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "thought": thought-a, thought-acts, thought-bubble, thought-change, thought-content, thought-contents, thought-control, thought-crater, thought-crime, thought-diary, thought-disordered, thought-experiences, thought-experiment, thought-experiments, thought-filled, thought-flow, thought-forms, Thought-i, thought-image, thought-lines, thought-modalities, thought-mutterings, thought-object, thought-of, thought-out, thought-penetration, thought-police, thought-processes, thought-provoking, thought-rather-than-action, thought-reader, thought-reading, thought-starters, thought-stimulating, thought-stopping, thought-stream, thought-symbol, thought-systems, thought-through, thought-to-be, thought-transference, thought-transmission, thought-waves. | |
Ending with "thought": after-thought, ill-thought, non-thought, re-thought, well-thought. | |
Containing "thought": ill-thought-out, well-thought-out. | |
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| Language | Translations for "thought"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | gedagte. (various references) | |
Albanian | vëmendje (assiduity, attention, attentiveness, care, carefulness, concentration, consideration, heed, note, notice, regard), qëllim (aim, ambition, aspiration, cause, design, designation, end, goal, idea, intent, intention, Mark, mission, notion, object, objective, point, purport, purpose, scope, target, term, view), mendova, mendim (brainchild, cogitation, conceit, conception, estimation, idea, judgement, judgment, meditation, mind, muse, notion, opinion, reflection, reflexion, say, self-communion, sentiment, spirit, thinking), kujdes (care, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, diligence, guard, lo, look out, nursing, pains, regard, safeguard, take care, tendance, treatment, trust, wariness), ide (brainchild, brainstorm, conception, idea, notion, picture). (various references) | |
Arabic | فكر (idea, thinking, to think), فكرة (conceit, concept, conception, idea, impression, motif, notion, opinion, outline, think, view), فكر (bethink, cerebrate, consider, contemplate, idea, meditate, reason, reflect, speculate on, think, think out, think over), تفكير (cogitation, reasoning, reflection, reflexion, reminding, thinking). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | размисъл (cogitation, meditation, reflection, rumination, thinking), начин на мислене (thinking), намерение (aim, aiming, animus, design, drift, intent, intention, motion, notion, object, plan, purpose, scope, view), мнение (advice, belief, comment, counsel, esteem, estimation, idea, image, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, pronouncement, sentence, sentiment, thinking, thoughts, verdict, view, voice), манталитет (attitude of mind, mentality, mind, stamp), мисъл (dictum, idea, image, intellection, mind, reflection, thinking), мислене (cogitation, think, thinking), помисъл (design, intention, view), идея (concept, conception, design, idea, intention, message, notion, suggestion). (various references) | |
Catalan | pensava. (various references) | |
Chinese | 想法 (IDEA, Ideas), 思維 (thinking), 思想 (idea, thinking), 念頭 (idea, intention). (various references) | |
Czech | přemýšlení (contemplation, muse, speculation, thinking), nápad (brain child, brain wave, conception, device, flash, idea, inspiration, notion), myšlenka (idea), myšlení (mind), mínìní (estimation, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, sentiments, voice), úvaha (account, consideration, deliberation, reasoning, reflection), úmysl (contemplation, design, intent, intention, view, will). (various references) | |
Danish | tanke. (various references) | |
Dutch | gedachte (contention, opinion). (various references) | |
Esperanto | penso. (various references) | |
Estonian | arvasin. (various references) | |
Faeroese | tanki, hugsan. (various references) | |
Farsi | فکر (Concept, Idea, Mind, Notion, Opinion), مطلب (Subject, Theme), چیزفکری , نظر (Advice, Discretion, Esteem, Look, Opinion, Regard, Shim, Sight, Slant, Verdict, View, Viewpoint), قصد (Animus, Assumption, Attempt, Design, Intent, Intention, Pretension, Purporst, Purpose, Resolution, Will), گمان (Aim, Assumption, Belief, Conjecture, Doubt, Guess, Idea, Impression, Opinion, Supposition, Surmise), تفکر (Cud, Dump, Recollection, Reflection), سر (Acme, Apex, Cabal, Chief, Corona, End, Extremity, Mystery, Pash, Pate, Plug, Point, Ruler, Secret, Top, Vertex), عقیده (Advice, Belief, Concept, Credo, Creed, Doctrine, Faith, Impression, Ism, Opinion, Tenet, View, Viewpoint), خیال (Design, Dump, Fancy, Fiction, Ghost, Humor, Idea, Ideology, Imaginary, Impression, Intention, Mind, Notion, Plan, Spectrum, Vision, Whim, Wraith), افکار (Breast), اندیشه (Anxiety, Idea, Mentality, Notion, Opinion, Plan, Reflection, Solicitude, Worry), استدلال (Logic, Ratiocination, Reasoning). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuuma (idea, inch), miete (idea, reflection), luulo (belief), arvelu (opinion, surmise), ajatus (idea, meaning, opinion, reflection, reflexion), ajattelutapa, ajattelu (meditation, reflection, thinking), aatos (idea), aate (idea). (various references) | |
French | pensée (thinking). (various references) | |
French Canadian | croyais. (various references) | |
Frisian | tins. (various references) | |
German | Gedanke (concept, idea, notion, reflection, sentiment), dachte (thoughts). (various references) | |
Greek | σκέψη (advisement, consideration, contemplation, meditation, pensiveness, reflection, reflexion, rumination, speculation, thinking). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | panse (think). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחשבה (apprehension, conception, device, idea, mind, skill, think, thinking), שעיה (affair, consideration, look, matter), שרעף (meditation), עשתות (idea, opinion), חשיבה (consideration, thinking), הגיג (meditation), הרהור (contemplation, meditation, reflection, rumination, speculation, think), רעיון (concept, conception, idea, notion). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gondolkodás (cogitation, philistinism, reasoning, schoolboy logic, think, thinking), gondolat (fantasy, idea). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hugsun. (various references) | |
Indonesian | terangan-angan (intended), pikiran (idea, intelligence, mind), gagasan (brainchild, bubble, concept, idea), angan-angan (delusion, dream, fantasy, notion). (various references) | |
Irish | smaoineamh, cheap, ceaptha. (various references) | |
Italian | pensiero (gift, idea, meaning, mind, opinion, thinking, trouble, worry). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 了見 (decision, design, discretion, forgiveness, idea, inclination, intention, motive, toleration). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おもい (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, experience, feelings, heart, heavy, hope, imagination, important, love, massive, mind, oppressed, sentiment, serious, severe, wish), おもんぱかり (consideration, fears), しそう (alveolus, florid expression, idea, instigation, look of death, master poet, municipal funeral, poetical imagination, poetical talent, priestly teacher, principle, shadow of death), しねん, そうねん (conception, idea, prime of life), そう (all, aspect, bed, cellar, class, conception, countenance, depository, destroy, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, suffer, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), しい (arbitrariness, circumference, demonstration, personal opinion, selfishness, show of force, speculation, surroundings, thinking), しこう (aim, carrying out, directional, draft of a poem, enforcing, execution, intention, liking, making an attempt, one's own thoughts or opinion, OO, personal conduct, preference, supremacy, supreme, supreme filial piety, taste, tooth tartar, waiting upon), しりょう (careful consideration, data, departed soul, feed, fodder, ghost, historical records, materials, sample, spirit of a dead person, test piece), しあん (consideration, meditation, one's own plan, ponder, private plan, tentative), しょぞん (intention, opinion), ねん (attention, care, concern, desire, feeling, idea, sense), かんがえ (ideas, intention, thinking), りょうけん (decision, design, discretion, forgiveness, gun dog, hound, hunting dog, idea, inclination, intention, motive, toleration), ものおもい (anxiety, meditation, pensiveness, reverie). (various references) | |
Korean | 생각 (remembering, thinking). (various references) | |
Manx | smooinaghtyn (bethink, cogitate, cogitation, far-away, imagination, reflect, reflecting, think, thinking), smooinaght (concept, impression, notion, opinion, sentiment, think). (various references) | |
Norwegian | trodde, tanke (idea). (various references) | |
Papiamen | pensamentu, pensamento. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oughtthay.(various references) | |
Polish | myśl (idea). (various references) | |
Portuguese | pensamento (cogitation, contemplation, impression, meaning, thinking). (various references) | |
Romanian | trecut şi participiu trecut de la think, reflecţie (reflection, speculation), intenţie (aim, contemplation, design, effect, meaning, mind, notion, order, purport, purpose, turn, will), idee (conceit, hint, idea, image, imagination, mind, notion, plan, project, scheme, shade, stroke, view), grijã (alarm, anxiety, attention, care, carefulness, charge, chariness, conscientiousness, custody, deliberation, foresight, harassment, mindfulness, neatness, observance, painstaking, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, solicitude, trouble, worriment, worry), gînd, gândire (consideration, deliberation, mentation, mind, reflection, reverie, thinking, understanding), gând (anticipation, anxiety, brains, conceit, conviction, idea, imagination, intent, recollection, scheme, thinking, wish), cugetare (cogitation, thinking), cuget (conscience, mind, sense, spirit, thinking), crezut, consideraţie (attention, consideration, count, deference, esteem, examination, recognition, regard, respect, sake), atenţie (acuity, advertence, advertency, attention, be careful, care, careful, carefulness, caution, closeness, complaisance, consideration, deliberation, have a care, heed, here goes, homage, interest, look out, lookout, mindfulness, note, notice, observance, regard, remark, stand by, vigilance, watch), îngrijorare (alarm, anxiety, concern, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fear, inquietude, restlessness, uneasiness, worry), închipuire (chimera, fancy, idea, image, imagination, imagining, make believe). (various references) | |
Russian | мысль (idea, mind, the thought that), мышление (intellection), забота (attention, care, concern, harassment, mothering, palaver, preoccupation, regard, tendance, thoughtfullness, thoughtfulness), помысел (design), думать мысль, дума (duma). (various references) | |
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