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Definition: Mind |
MindNoun1. That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head". 2. Recall or remembrance; "it came to mind". 3. An opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind". 4. An intellectual being; "the great minds of the 17th century". 5. Attention; "don't pay him any mind". 6. Your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces". 7. Knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect". Verb1. Be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by: "I don't mind your behavior". 2. Be concerned with or about something or somebody. 3. Be in charge of or deal with; "She takes care of all the necessary arrangements". 4. Pay close attention to; give heed to; "Heed the advice of the old men". 5. Be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to; "Beware of telephone salesmen". 6. Keep in mind. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mind" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Satire | MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. From the Latin mens, a fact unknown to that honest shoe-seller, who, observing that his learned competitor over the way had displayed the motto "Mens conscia recti," emblazoned his own front with the words "Men's, women's and children's conscia recti.". Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | No matter. MATTER Never mind. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The mind is a subject about which very much theorizing, experimenting, and expostulating has occurred in philosophy (studied under the heading philosophy of mind), psychology, and religion (where in theology it is often considered alongside such related notions as soul and spirit). Some people think it is synomous with the brain.
Substance or bundle?
There is a popular problem in philosophy about what the mind is, which can be presented as follows. It is commonplace to wonder what the mind, or soul (if you will), is. One can identify individual thoughts, individual feelings, in one's mind. But what is this mind that has these thoughts and feelings? One can imagine all sorts of mental goings-on, but what is it to imagine the mind itself? It seems the only way we have of understanding, by introspection, what our minds are is by considering various particular thoughts, feelings, decisions, and other events in our minds (i.e., mental events).
So, someone might boldly maintain that we really do not have a mind, or a soul, per se--at least, we do not have any mind or soul that is distinct from our thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events. All there are is a series of thoughts and feelings that are associated with our bodies. There are no minds that are something over and above these thoughts and feelings. This would be the view of someone who held a bundle theory about the mind. The Scottish philosopher David Hume held a theory of mind like this.
The view of common sense, it seems, is opposed to a bundle theory of the mind. We seem to have a mind, or soul, which is distinct from our thoughts and feelings--and that mind is just exactly what we call our selves. Hume seems to want to deny that there is such a thing as the self. To some people this seems absurd. To them, a substance theory of mind will seem more attractive. On this view, one holds that there is something--one may not know what, but something--which has the thoughts and feelings, and the thoughts and feelings are in our minds, in about the same way that properties inhere in a substance.
Philosophers have not infrequently bandied the phrase "mental substance," and indeed, it has been made central to the ontologies of several philosophers, including most notably Gottfried Leibniz; according to Leibniz, the monad, a "simple soul," is that in terms of which everything else in the universe was to be explained. The notion of mental substance is also basic to the dualism of Rene Descartes. David Hume was very famous for advocating a bundle theory of mind.
Psychological Experiments on Mind-Body relations
In a study patients were asked to flex the index finger of their right hand suddenly at various times of their own choosing while the electrical signals in their brain were being recorded on an EEG. It was found that there was a gradual build-up of recorded electric potential for a second or a second and a half before the finger was actually flexed, indicating that the unconscious mind had made the decision before the conscious mind decided to act. Or, the actual initiation of volition may have begun earlier in some other part of the brain.
In another experiment on patients undergoing brain surgery, it took about half a second to register a stimulus applied to the skin, despite the fact that the brain would have received the signal of the stimulus in about a hundredth of a second and the pre-programmed reflex response takes only about the tenth of a second.
See also:
- cognitive science
- Society of Mind theory
- unconscious mind
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mind."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, and consciousness. These areas give rise to some very difficult problems and questions; there are many opinions as to their solutions and answers, if any. This article attempts to suggest the scope of the philosophy of mind and indicate some of the important questions, but does not provide answers.What is the mind?
Is the mind nothing more than a series of particular thoughts, feelings, and so forth, or is it something over and above those particular thoughts, feelings, and so forth? When we ask that, we are simply asking what the relation is between the mind and mental events. In other words, we could simply restate the question in terms of mental events, like this: Is the mind nothing more than a series of mental events, or is it something over and above the mental events that we say occur "in" it? This isn't a question we are going to try to answer.But of course there are other questions we could ask about what the mind is; we might raise the mind-body problem. Are our minds something that goes beyond our physical bodies? Suppose we think that the mind is a substance of some sort -- a MentalSubstance. We might still ask: Is there some way to explain what the mind, a mental substance, is in terms of physical substance? Or will we maintain that the mind is something totally different from physical bodies, and that we cannot explain what the one is in terms of the other at all?
Mental Events
Suppose instead that we deny that the mind is some mysterious substance, and we hold instead that there are only mental events and that "the mind" designates no more than a series of mental events? We can still inquire about the relation between mind and body a different way, in terms of the relation between mental events and physical events. We can ask: Are mental events totally different from physical events, so that you can't explain what mental events are in terms of physical events; or are mental events somehow explainable as being the same as physical events? For example, when John feels a pain, a mental event is occurring; now is that pain even possibly the same as something that occurs in John's brain, such as the firing of some special group of neurons?So far we've presented several different questions that the philosophy of mind asks: What is the mind, a substance or just a series of mental events? Is the mind somehow reducible to, or explainable in terms of, the body? Are mental events somehow reducible to, or explainable in terms of, physical events? Each of these questions are ways of interpreting the more ambiguous questions we started with, such as, "What is the mind?" and "What are mental events?"
What is involved in each type of cognitive process?
We can also ask questions about the different specific cognitive processes, and of course we might ask what cognitive processes in general are supposed to be. In that case, we'd be asking what distinguishes a cognitive process from any other kind of process. That is another way of putting the mind-body problem. We can also ask a series of more specialized questions, about each individual cognitive process.Take perception as an example. Philosophers ask what is going on when we perceive something -- when we see, hear, taste, touch, and so on. But philosophers are not interested in the particular mechanisms that allow us to see -- for example, they do not study the shape of the eye or how the optical nerve carries information to the brain. They are interested in even more basic questions. They ask: Do we perceive physical objects directly with our senses, or do we form mental images of some sort, which we use to represent physical objects and their properties? These are questions raised by the philosophy of perception. The philosophy of perception is all about how our minds come in contact with the world outside our minds.
Another example is the will, or volition. When we choose to do something we are using our wills, or engaging in volition. There is, of course, one special and very difficult question that philosophers ask about this process, namely, is the will free? If Mary decides to walk across the room, that seems to be entirely up to her; she could have chosen otherwise. But if the universe is determined, and especially if our will really is after all just a physical process, then it certainly does seem as though Mary didn't have control over everything that led up to her deciding to walk across the room. So was she free or wasn't she?
See also: Free will and determinism.
What is consciousness?
We say that there is something it's like to "be watching a baby". When we look at a baby we are conscious of the baby. Is there some way to explain what makes a mental event, like looking at a baby, conscious? Well, what could we explain consciousness in terms of? If in terms of some physical process, then we face the same old mind-body question in yet another form: Can consciousness be reduced to, or explained in terms of, mere physical processes? Some people have said, vociferously, definitely not. How could a hunk of grey matter in your brain be the same as the awareness of a pain? Awareness is a totally different kind of thing from grey matter in your skull.But that is only one question that can be asked about consciousness. There are other questions. Indeed there are a lot of questions that can be asked about all the other mental functions, such as memory, forming concepts, reasoning, the emotions, and so on.
See also
For a more scientific model of how the mind works, see: neural networks, genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning
Some philosophers working in this area
- Daniel Dennett
- Owen Flanagan
- John Searle
- Patricia Churchland
- David Chalmers
- Gerald Edelman
- Francis Crick
- Ned Block
- Georges Rey
- Thomas Nagel
- Paul Churchland
- Thomas Metzinger
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Philosophy of mind."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MIND | English | Management of information through natural discourse | Computing, Information |
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Synonyms: MindSynonyms: brain (n), creative thinker (n), head (n), idea (n), intellect (n), judgement (n), judgment (n), nous (n), psyche (n), thinker (n), bear in mind (v), beware (v), heed (v), listen (v), take care (v), worry (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: forget (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Verb: be attentive; Adjective: attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; (think of); look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note. |
Belief | Persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self-conviction; certainty; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking; impression; (idea); surmise; conclusion; (judgment). |
Care | Verb: be careful; Adjective: reck; take care; (be cautious); pay attention to; take care of; look to, look after, see to, see after; keep an eye on, keep a sharp eye on; chaperon, matronize, play gooseberry; keep watch, keep watch and ward; mount guard, set watch, watch; keep in sight, keep in view; mind, mind one's business. |
Dislike | Verb: mislike misrelish, dislike, disrelish; mind, object to; have rather not, would rather not, prefer not to, not care for; have a dislike for, conceive a dislike to, entertain a dislike for, take a dislike to, have an aversion to, have an aversion for; have no taste for, have no stomach for. |
Intellect | Noun: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit; ability; (skill); wisdom; Vernunft, Verstand. |
Intention | Contemplation, mind, animus, view, purview, proposal; study; look out. |
Memory | Verb: remember, mind; retain the memory of, retain the remembrance of; keep in view. |
Will | Pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind; (inclination); intention; predetermination; selfcontrol; determination; (resolution); force of will. |
Willingness | Verb: be willing; Adjective: incline, lean to, mind, propend; had as lief; lend a willing ear, give a willing ear, turn a willing ear; have a half a mind to, have a great mind to; hold to, cling to; desire. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mind |
| English words defined with "mind": A year's mind ♦ bear in mind ♦ come to mind ♦ great mind ♦ in the mind ♦ of sound mind, of unsound mind, Out of mind ♦ Presence of mind ♦ spring to mind ♦ To have a mind, To put in mind, To turn in the mind ♦ unconscious mind. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mind": eighty-column mind ♦ mind mouse, mind uploading, Mind your Own Business, Month's Mind ♦ unsoundness of mind. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mind": syllogism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mind" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Estonian (me), Hungarian (all, all of it, each, en masse, every, every one), Pidgin English (mind). |
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Screenplays | You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) 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) And at no time did he ever leave my mind. (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick) You have a clever mind. Think of a solution (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning even if I can't remember them (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) | |
Lyrics | Free your mind and the rest will follow (Free Your Mind; performing artist: En Vogue) I got my mind set on you (Got My Mind Set On You; performing artist: George Harrison) If I could read your mind love (If You Could Read My Mind; performing artist: Gordon Lightfoot) Tell me what's on you mind. (What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy); performing artist: Information Society) The state of mind you're in (Change Your Mind; performing artist: Sister Hazel) | |
Clever | In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities. (references; author: Mark Twain) A closed mind is a good thing to lose. (references; author: unknown) LSD melts your mind, not in your hand. (references; author: unknown) To truly hear, you must quiet the mind. (references; author: unknown) Anger opens the mouth and shuts the mind. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Passion of Mind (2000) Columbo: Mind Over Mayhem (1974) Demons of the Mind (1972) Jennifer on My Mind (1971) The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970) | |
Song Titles | Last Thing On My Mind, The (performing artist: Neil Diamond) If You Could Read My Mind (performing artist: Gordon Lightfoot) Let Me Blow Ya Mind (performing artist: Gwen Stefani) What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (performing artist: Information Society) I Got My Mind Made Up (performing artist: Instant Funk) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Veranda and doorway. Photograph by L.D. Andrew, May 1936. (Reproduction Number: HABS, GA,108-COLM,4-1) Begun in 1859 for the wealthy Scottish immigrant James A. Rankin but not completed until after the Civil War, this town house combines different building materials and details from a number of historical architectural styles. The ironwork shown here on the veranda is based on the Gothic architecture of medieval England and France. The Corinthian columns of the doorway behind it, on the other hand, call to mind the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. The Rankin House is an excellent example of Eclecticism architecture, the term used to describe the mixing of different styles and materials in buildings. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior, looking north. Photograph by Jet Lowe, May 1985. (Reproduction Number: HAER OHIO,77-AKRO,6-18) Built by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1929, this cavernous structure was used for the construction and repair of zeppelins. Eleven steel parabolic arches, 221 feet high, support the airdock without additional interior columns, creating one of the largest open interior spaces in the world. This view shows the complicated system of overhead cranes and catwalks used to construct zeppelins, along with the huge curved door for moving zeppelins in and out of the airdock. The Goodyear Airdock calls to mind the great age of lighter-than-air aviation in the 1920s. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coca Wine. : For Fatigue of Mind and Body. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | While You Make Up Your Mind About Whooping Cough Vaccination, Thousands Of Children Are Holding Their Breath : There's An Epidemic. Get Your Child Vaccinated Now. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Lamper was a bold and hardened man, but he had no mind to argue with this colossus. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I don't mind, Henry : what is your invention?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Never mind the jolts, Dovey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Driver: Hey! Make up your mind!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Steve Roper. "Couldn't you change your mind and stay with the midway, Mike?". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The original mystery man of India, the great Kara the world's foremost mind reader and crystal gazer and his $50,000 production of Oriental splendor "A night in the Orient.". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mind the GAP" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Sorry its abit blurred, its not so bad and its quite big. I found it super useful in my irrelevant article about gap students. ." | "Red rose..." by Krzysztof Baranski Commentary: "Red rose...in my mind..." |
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 | Blither; blithering; idiot; idiotic; incomprehensible; insane; institutionalized; crazy; crazed; out of your mind; out of his mind; out of my mind; mentally ill; aberrant; bewildered; confused; crazed; delirious; demented; deranged; deviant; deviate; ding. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristophanes | By words the mind is winged. |
George Herbert | The resolved mind hath no cares. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | A feeble body weakens the mind. |
Josiah Gilbert Holland | A mind grows by what it feeds on. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | A good mind possesses a kingdom. |
Miguel de Cervantes | TIme out of mind. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The true poem is the poet's mind. |
Thomas Paine | My own mind is my own church. |
Virgil | A mind aware of its own rectitude. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Adam was created a perfect man, his body and mind in full possession of their strength and reason, and so was capable, from the first instant of his being to provide for his own support and preservation, and govern his actions according to the dictates of the law of reason which God had implanted in him. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In this connection, the special necessities of the regions devastated during the war of 1914-1918 shall be borne in mind; (f) will endeavour to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | I did not myself agree with many things that were done, but I have a very strong impression in my mind of that situation, and I find it painful to contrast it with that which prevails now. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | What others in Congress and the state legislatures had in mind cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The most satisfactory comparisons were rising in her mind. |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | Her mind was a blank, and all human expression was rapidly fading out of her face |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | This idea taking full possession of his mind, he got up softly and shuffled in his slippers to the door |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The closer you penetrated to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Jean Valjean shuddered in the darkness of his mind. |
Cymon and Iphigenia | John Dryden | When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He has a handsome face, mind you, in repose |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I mind my own yard |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These methods focus on the mind, body, and spirit. (references) | |
At the same time, keep in mind that it is a temporary side effect. (references) | ||
But keep these questions in mind for when you might make a change. (references) | ||
Business | Trading companies should keep in mind the influential environmental groups. (references) | |
Foreign companies should also keep in mind that the Dominican market is price conscious. (references) | ||
We would like to suggest that you keep the information in mind for your success in the market. (references) | ||
Children | United Kingdom | Adaptations must be "reasonable," bearing in mind the circumstances and size of the business. (references) |
Economic History | Bahrain | Laws, regulations, and infrastructure have been developed with that goal in mind. (references) |
Greece | U.S. exporters should bear in mind that letters of credit and drafts are very expensive in Greece. (references) | |
Political Economy | RUSSIA | Measured in dollar terms at the average rate of exchange (and keeping in mind that the sharp devaluation may have magnified the drop), Russia's GDP in 1999 was only about $183 billion, slightly more than half of its value in 1995 ($337 billion). (references) |
Trade | France | However, one must bear in mind that ISO 9000 certifies the company's management organization, not its products. (references) |
Japan | In addition to standards, another point to bear in mind regarding the sale of merchandise in Japan is the Product Liability Law. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | This is important to keep in mind when dealing with a Vietnamese organization. (references) |
Kenya | The U.S. exporter should keep certain factors in mind to achieve maximum success. (references) | |
Korea | An important point to keep in mind concerns the nature of reaching an agreement with a Korean firm. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. |
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Dan Rather | Well, I'm not capable of summing it up. Among the thoughts in my mind are, one, the people who are most afraid are the people in the most danger. And I keep reminding myself of that. Anthrax is not the major danger to us. Fear is. |
Gerald Ford | Some call me an elder statesman. I don't know. I don't mind telling you that I'm not ready to quit yet! |
Jermaine Jackson | See my whole reason for being here is to sort of set the record straight and answer things that are sort of cloudy in one's mind that the media has misconstrued. |
Marla Hanson | Right. Well, I mean, I didn't know if anyone would believe me because I had trouble getting my mind around, I mean, what they had done, why they did it. And, I mean, I couldn't quite get my mind around it. |
Nancy Grace | You say look at this good looking guy, committed murder. Nobody wants to believe that. That's the fascination with the court system. You go into the mind and the heart of a human. |
Naomi Campbell | I believe more for me as a character and I go inside myself. It's really a lot to do with the mind as well, I think. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Chairman, I'd like to get your view, if you don't mind, on Prime Minister Sharon. The president, through a spokesman, has repeatedly called him a man of peace. |
Rush Limbaugh | Keep in mind that we're told that one guy is smarter than the rest of the room, and that we were fortunate just to have had somebody with this intellect leading us. |
Sylvia Browne | Oh, yeah, and then the person won't ride her anymore. You'd be surprised at how much power your mind has. See, a person can only have power over us if we let them. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | In this dangerous crisis the people of America were not abandoned by their usual good sense, presence of mind, resolution, or integrity. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | We must be contented to hope they will force their way into every one's mind. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Disregarding early impressions I have bestowed on the subject all the deliberation which its great importance and a just sense of my duty required, and the result is a settled conviction in my mind that Congress do not possess the right. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | But there are powerful and to my mind conclusive objections to this mode of proceeding. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Political subjects which but a few years ago excited and exasperated the public mind have passed away and are now nearly forgotten. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | Let each man see to it that the dedication is in his own heart, the high purpose of the nation in his own mind, ruler of his own will and desire. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Our Government's support for the humanities, within the framework laid down by the Congress, is a recognition of their essential nourishment of the life of the mind and vital enrichment of our national life. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Again, we ought to keep in mind, government-funded research brought supercomputers, the Internet, and communications satellites into being. |
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| "Mind" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.91% of the time. "Mind" is used about 25,542 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 72.91% | 18,623 | 496 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.05% | 4,100 | 2,401 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.03% | 2,818 | 3,286 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25,542 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mind": a broad mind ♦ a certain uneasiness of mind ♦ A month mind ♦ A year's mind ♦ absence of mind ♦ absorption of mind ♦ after one's mind ♦ apply one's mind to smth. ♦ at the back of one's mind ♦ attitude of mind ♦ balance of mind ♦ balanced mind ♦ be in one's mind ♦ be in one's right mind ♦ be in right mind ♦ be in two mind ♦ be of one mind ♦ be of the same mind as smb. ♦ be off one's mind ♦ be on smb.'s mind ♦ be out of one's mind ♦ be present to the mind ♦ be right in one's mind ♦ be stoned out of one's mind ♦ be unsettled in a state of mind ♦ be uppermost in the mind ♦ bear in mind ♦ bear in mind that ♦ bear smth. in mind ♦ bearing in mind ♦ bend one's mind to ♦ blank mind ♦ blow one's mind ♦ breadth of mind ♦ break one's mind ♦ bring to mind ♦ broaden one's mind ♦ broadness of mind ♦ call back to mind ♦ call to mind ♦ cast back one's mind ♦ cast back one's mind to smth. ♦ cast of mind ♦ change mind ♦ change my mind ♦ change of mind ♦ change one's mind ♦ change smb.'s mind ♦ changing one's mind ♦ clear mind ♦ come to mind ♦ come to one's mind ♦ confuse smb.'s mind ♦ cross one's mind ♦ cross smb.'s mind ♦ devouring mind ♦ disburden one's mind ♦ dismiss from one's mind ♦ dismiss from the mind ♦ distract one's mind ♦ disturb the mind of ♦ divert the mind ♦ do you mind ♦ do you mind my smoking? ♦ dull smb.'s mind ♦ dwell in one's mind ♦ ease smb.'s mind ♦ enlargement of mind ♦ enrich one's mind ♦ equal mind ♦ flash on the mind ♦ flash through one's mind ♦ float in the mind ♦ foggy mind ♦ food for the mind ♦ frame of mind ♦ get out of smb.'s mind ♦ give a piece of one's mind ♦ give smb. a bit of one's mind ♦ give smb. a piece of one's mind ♦ give smb. one's mind ♦ give your mind to what you are doing ♦ go out of one's mind ♦ go out of smb.'s mind ♦ great mind ♦ greatness of mind ♦ habit of mind ♦ haunt one's mind ♦ have a good mind to ♦ have a great mind to ♦ have a mind to ♦ have a mind to do smth. ♦ have a nasty mind ♦ have a weight on the mind ♦ have an agile mind ♦ have an open mind ♦ have in mind ♦ have in one's mind ♦ have smth. in mind ♦ healthy mind ♦ his mind was in a haze. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mind": mind-again, mind-altering, mind-altering drug, mind-and-eye-boggling, mind-bender, mind-benders, mind-bending, mind-bendingly, mind-blasted, mind-blowing, mind-blowingly, mind-blown, mind-body, Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics), mind-body-spirit, mind-boggler, mind-boggling, mind-bogglingly, mind-brain, mind-breaker, mind-breaking, mind-catcher, mind-chains, mind-changing, mind-control, mind-crushingly, mind-deadening, mind-dependent, mind-destroying, mind-dizzying, mind-down, mind-expanding, mind-expansion, mind-fazing, mind-filter, mind-forg, mind-games, mind-guards, mind-'i, mind-impulse, mind-independent, mind-jolting, mind-lessening, mind-like, mind-manipulators, mind-map, mind-maps, mind-movie, mind-moving, mind-mushing, mind-nature, mind-numbing, mind-numbingly, mind-opening, mind-picture, mind-pounding, mind-pulverising, mind-reader, mind-readers, mind-reading, mind-sap, mind-saving, mind-screams, mind-searing, mind-seeds, mind-set, mind-shattering, mind-shatteringly, mind-slaved, mind-slaves, mind-spinning, mind-stopping, mind-stretching, mind-stunning, mind-tech, mind-to-mind, mind-transforming, mind-trip, mind-twisting, mind-wandering, mind-widening, mind-wiped, mind-you, mind-your-own-business. | |
Ending with "mind": all-in-the-mind, Body-Mind, brain-mind, expanded-mind, mind-to-mind, miriad-mind, m-m-mind, molecule-mind, mood-and-mind, multi-mind, Never-mind, out-of-mind, passion-mind, self-mind, subconscious-mind, sub-mind, theory-of-mind. | |
Containing "mind": body-and-mind-sets, body-mind-spirit, don't-mind-us, make-your-mind-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
a beautiful mind | 837 | the well trained mind | 129 |
mind control | 732 | peace of mind | 123 |
mind | 718 | confession of a dangerous mind | 122 |
mind game | 569 | mind puzzle | 120 |
mind power | 505 | mind reader | 119 |
mind control story | 358 | mind the gap | 118 |
mind map | 337 | filthy mind | 108 |
simple mind | 289 | mind teasers | 106 |
erotic mind control | 246 | mind bender | 106 |
mind mapping | 234 | body mind spirit | 106 |
mind manager | 194 | mind eye | 102 |
diamond mind | 190 | mind reading | 100 |
erotic mind control story | 187 | mind trick | 100 |
jedi mind trick | 186 | georgia on my mind | 94 |
kid in mind | 182 | always on my mind | 93 |
odyssey of the mind | 181 | hypnotize mind | 89 |
mind body health | 168 | mind over matter | 83 |
dangerous mind | 160 | the mind of the married man | 78 |
mind body | 138 | erotic mind control story archive | 78 |
science of mind | 130 | make up your mind | 76 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | gees (fairy, ghost, intellect, phantom, soul, spirit). (various references) | |
Albanian | mend (ballast, brain, brains, esprit, headpiece, imagination, intention, memory, nous, reason, savvy, wit), mbaj mend (remember), mendim (brainchild, cogitation, conceit, conception, estimation, idea, judgement, judgment, meditation, muse, notion, opinion, reflection, reflexion, say, self-communion, sentiment, spirit, thinking, thought), mendje (brain, head, intellect, mentality, reason, sense, wit), opinion (judgement, judgment, notion, opinion, say, thinking, view, voice), pikëpamje (angle, aspect, light, notion, outlook, point of view, position, side, standpoint, view, viewpoint), ruhem (beware, keep, watch), zgjuarsi (ability, acuteness, aptness, artfulness, cleverness, finesse, ingeniousness, ingenuity, intelligence, readiness, sagacity, shrewdness, smartness, wit), shpirt (animus, genius, heart, psyche, soul, spirit), aftësi mendore (mentality), kujtoj (bear in mind, bring to mind, call up, guess, hold, impart, keep in mind, recall, recollect, remember, retain, think, understand, visualize), kujtim (anamnesis, memento, memory, recall, recollection, remembrance, souvenir, token), kujtesë (memory, recall, recollection, remembrance), kujdesem (attend, be careful, care, care about, ware), intelekt (brains, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, nous), i kushtoj vëmendje (note, pay attention), kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, combat, condemn, contest, contradict, controvert, counter, cross, demur, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, dispute, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, recalcitrate, refuse, resist, retort, set one's face against, stick to, stickle, Stonewall, take exception to). (various references) | |
Arabic | ضمير وجدان (conscience, heart, innermost), راقب (blue pencil, case, close, control, keep an eye on, look, look after, look on, monitor, observe, overlook, oversee, proctor, spy, stake, superintend, supervise, tend, watch), رعى طفلا, رغبة (craving, desire, device, disposition, hangnail, inclination, longing, lust, readiness, stomach, will, willingness, wish), أطاع (comply, conform, enforce, obey, subject), إنتبه إلى, العقل (nous), ذاكرة (heart, memory, recollection, remembrance, retention, scratch pad, store, thesaurus), رأي (consideration, deliverance, feeling, idea, judgement, judgment, opinion, persuasion, saw, say, sentiment, theory, think, verdict, view), ذكاء (brain, brilliance, brilliancy, cleverness, cuteness, intellect, intelligence, mentality, penetration, quickness, sagacity, savvy, shrewdness, smartness, understanding, wit), مزاج (cast of mind, complexion, constitution, disposition, feather, figure, frame, frame of mind, framing, grain, humor, humour, kidney, mettle, mood, nature, spirits, state of mind, temper, temperament, tone, vein), عارض (adventitious, disagree, discountenance, dissent, exhibitor, join issue with, negative, nix, not to hold with, object, oppose, part company, precarious, protest, take issue wit), عقل (brains, intellect, intelligence, layer, mentality, pate, picket, psyche, reason, sense, skull, steady, wit), تذكر (recall, recollect, recollection, remember, reminiscence), تعهد (assurance, assure, bind, bond, care, commit oneself, commitment, contract, engage, engagement, guardianship, nurse, obligation, pledge, plight, promise, protection, stipulate, undertake, undertaking, warrant), حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), وجهة نظر (angle, color, colour, dogmatism, estimation, opinion, perspective, point of view, sentiment, slant, standpoint, viewpoint), نفس روح (psyche, respiration, soul, spirit), نية (animus, intent, intention, notion), ذكرى (memorial, memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence, reminiscent, souvenir). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обръщам внимание на (heed, take notice of, urge), имам нещо против (object), интелект (intellect, intelligence, mentality, nous), пазя (guard, hoard, invigilate, keep, preserve, protect, screen, spare, treasure up, ward, watch, watch over), памет (memory, recollection, remembrance, storage), помня (bear in mind, keep in mind, remember), мисловност, мисъл (dictum, idea, image, intellection, reflection, thinking, thought), манталитет (attitude of mind, mentality, stamp, thought), мнение (advice, belief, comment, counsel, esteem, estimation, idea, image, notion, opinion, persuasion, pronouncement, sentence, sentiment, thinking, thought, thoughts, verdict, view, voice), дух (fetch, ghost, mettle, morale, pecker, phantasm, presence, shade, soul, spirit, spook, tone, visitant), не ми харесва, съзнание (consciousness, daylights, sensorium, sentience), внимавам (attend, be careful, beware, go slow, guard, look out, see, ware, watch out), гледам (eye, gape, lamp, look, look at, look on, look out, look through, manage, nurse, open, overlook, point, regard, see, see into, tend, view, watch), грижа се за (administer to, do for, fend for, fend for oneself, keep, look after, look to, nurse, see after, take care of, tend), тежи ми, разум (discrimination, nous, rationality, understanding, wit), разсъдък (judgement, mentality, nous), спазвам (adhere, comply, hold, keep, observe, preserve, respect, satisfy), спомен (keepsake, memento, memory, relic, remembrance, reminiscence), ум (brain, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, mentality, nous, pericranium, wit), уважавам (admire, esteem, hold in esteem, honor, honour, notice, regard, respect, venerate, worship), не забравям (keep tab on). (various references) | |
Chinese | 胸 (bosom, chest, heart, thorax), 腦筋 (brains, head, way of thinking), 腦子 (brains), 頭腦 (brains), 懷 (bosom, heart, to cherish, to think of), 头脑 (Pate), 心 (heart). (various references) | |
Czech | mysl, myšlení (thought), mínìní (estimation, judgement, judgment, opinion, sentiments, thought, voice), vkus (palate, style, stylishness, taste), starat se o (attend to, care for, cherish, look after, maintain, take care of), rozum (intelligence, reason, understanding), pozor (attention, caution, look out), přání (desire, option, will, wish), intelekt (intellect), hlídat (guard, Mark, tend, ward, watch, watch over), duch (apparition, esprit, ghost, gimp, psyche, soul, spectre, spirit, spook), dohlédnout na, brát v úvahu (look at). (various references) | |
Danish | fornuft (intellect, logical reasoning, reason). (various references) | |
Dutch | verstand (intellect, knowledge, logical reasoning, notion, realization, reason, sense, understanding), intellect (intellect), geest (fairy, ghost, intellect, phantom, soul, spirit). (various references) | |
Esperanto | menso, observi (keep, observe), intelekto (intellect). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sinni, sál (psyche, soul), andi (ghost, phantom, spirit). (various references) | |
Farsi | فهم (Brain, Grasp, Head, Intellect, Intelligence, Savvy, Understanding, Uptake), فکرچیزی راکردن , فکر (Concept, Idea, Notion, Opinion, Thought), یاداوری کردن (Memorialize, Remind, Reminisce), ملتفت بودن (Beware), مواظبت کردن (Assist, Attend), مغز (Brain, Kernel, Marrow, Nucleus, Pate), مراقب بودن , حذرکردن از (Beware), تذکرتصمیم داشتن , ذهن (Mentality, Remembrance), خیال (Design, Dump, Fancy, Fiction, Ghost, Humor, Idea, Ideology, Imaginary, Impression, Intention, Notion, Plan, Spectrum, Thought, Vision, Whim, Wraith), خاطر (Attention, Remembrance, Sake), اعتناء کردن به , دادن (Admit, Afford, Concede, Give, Grant, Impute, Mete, Pay, Render). (various references) | |
Finnish | mieli (frame of mind, mood). (various references) | |
French | esprit, observer. (various references) | |
Frisian | observearje (keep, observe). (various references) | |
Galician | importa. (various references) | |
German | Verstand (brain, head, intellect, intelligence, judgment, meaning, reason, sanities, sanity, savvied, sense, senses, understanded, understanding, wit), Sinn (acceptation, feel, feeling, inclination, meaning, point, sensation, sense, signification, spirit), Meinung (acceptation, contention, estimation, idea, judgment, meaning, notion, opinion, sentence, sentiment, view), Geist (esprit, ghost, intellect, mettle, phantom, psyche, specter, spirit, wit), beaufsichtigen (guard, inspect, invigilate, keep, look after, nurse, observe, oversee, superintend, supervise, to invigilate, to oversee, to superintend, to supervise), Ansicht (display, feeling, idea, image, inspection, judgment, notion, opinion, picture, sentiment, view), Absicht (aim, design, game, intent, intention, meaning, object, plan, purpose, purposes, tendency, tenor, view). (various references) | |
Greek | νοιάζομαι (bother about, care, care about, concern, matter), μυαλό (brain, gumption, noddle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להזהר (be careful, beware, look out, watch), נשמה (life, psyche, soul, spirit), דעה (estimation, insight, knowledge, opinion, say, understanding, view, wisdom), זהירות (care, carefulness, caution, discreetness, discretion, look out, observation, prudence, steady, take care, wariness), זכרון (commemoration, memorial, memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence), שכוי (insight, rooster), שכל (brains, grey matter, insight, intellect, intelligence, reason, savvy, sense, wisdom, wit), תודעה (consciousness), נפש (breath, life, person, psyche, respiration, soul, spirit), להצטער (be afraid, be sorry, grieve, regret, rue, sorrow), משכל (intelligence), להשגיח על (keep an eye on, take care of), להתנגד (be against, brave, demur, discountenance, object, oppose, rebel, resist, take exception to), להיות אכפת (care), לזכור (bear in mind, keep in mind, recall, recollect, remember), לשים לב (attend, heed, pay attention, reck, remark, take care, take notice), לשמור (keep, keep guard, lay in, observe, preserve, protect), מחשבה (apprehension, conception, device, idea, skill, think, thinking, thought), לב (centre, conscience, heart, middle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lélek (breast, censorship, conscience, critter, ghost, metal, psyche, soul, spirit), elme (nous), ész (brain, five wits, head, intellect, nous, reason, savvy, senses, wit). (various references) | |
Icelandic | það var ekkert (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome), það gerir ekkert til (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pikiran (idea, intelligence, thought), nalar (logical reasoning, ratio, reasonable), kalbu (heart), budi (character, sensibleness, trick), batin (arcane, hidden, inner, internal, mental, moral, secret), akal (cunning, intellect, intelligence, tactics, trickiness). (various references) | |
Italian | osservare (examine, keep, note, notice, object, observe, point out, remark, respect, see, survey, view, watch), mente (brains, esprit, mastermind, mentality, nous, spirit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 心 (core, heart, marrow, spirit, wick). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おもい (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, experience, feelings, heart, heavy, hope, imagination, important, love, massive, oppressed, sentiment, serious, severe, thought, wish), マインド , しんしょ (17 x 11 cm paperbook book, emotion, handwritten or autograph letter, letter, new book, personal correspondence, signature of an emperor or noble, square style), しんしん (being full, body and mind, brimfull, deeply forested, grow very late at night, mind and body, piercing, rising, silent, up-and-coming), しんせい (a new government or administration, application, authentic, dignity, direct Imperial rule, disposition, divinity, genuine, holiness, inborn nature, nascent, nature, new birth, new face, new system, nova, petition, pure, rebirth, request, sacredness, theocracy, true), しんい (deep or profound meaning, divine will, god's authority, might of Heaven, real intention, true meaning, true motive, underwear), しんじ (acupuncture, emperor's seal, kanji made in Japan, padding, sacred jewels, serving as a retainer, Shinto rituals, title affixed to man's posthumous Buddhist name), しんとう (concussion, degree of kinship, heart, impact, newly forged sword, newparty, osmosis, penetration, permeation, sacred light, Shinto, shock, sword made after the year 1615), ねんとう (beginning of the year, the oldest person), しんちゅう (brass, in one's heart, occupation, stationing, true motives, within one's body), しんちょ (emotion, new book or literary work), しんき (divinity, encouragement, feelings, fretfulness, novel, novelty, one's mental state or attitude, originality, sacred treasure, spirit, stimulation, tedium, the elements, the three sacred treasures), せいしん (celestial bodies, fresh, heart, intention, new, sincerity, soul, spirit, stars), こころ (heart, spirit), むねさんずん (feelings, heart). (various references) | |
Korean | 마음. (various references) | |
Malay | hati (liver). (various references) | |
Manx | thort (circumspection, consideration, presence of mind), shee aigney (peace of mind), s'cummey (never mind), rouailley aigney (wandering of mind), kiootid (astuteness, cleverness, keeness of mind, wiliness), faare-cheayll (presence of mind), branlaadee (confusion, hallucinate, rambling, raving, wandering of mind), anmey (agony of mind, of a soul, spiritual), aigney yn leigh (legal mind), aigney coon (insular mind), aigney (accord, bent, frame of mind, purpose, volition, will). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ingen årsak (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome), det gjør ikke noe (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Papiamen | mente, opservá (keep, observe). (various references) | |
Pidgin English | mind. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mente (nous, spirit), observar (attend, behold, consider, deem, keep, look, look at, note, notice, obey, observe, perceive, premise, regard, remark, represent, scout, see, sight, spy, take notice, twig, view, watch), intelecto (brain, headpiece, intellect, nous, understanding). (various references) | |
Romanian | memorie (memory, recollection, remembrance, retention, storage), minte (brain, imagination, intellect, judgment, nous, pate, reason, savvy, sense, spirit, thinking, wisdom, wit, wits), cuget (conscience, sense, spirit, thinking, thought), idee (conceit, hint, idea, image, imagination, notion, plan, project, scheme, shade, stroke, thought, view), gânditor (meditative, meditatively, mused, museful, musing, notionalist, pensive, speculative, thinker, thinking, thoughtful, wistful), gândire (consideration, deliberation, mentation, reflection, reverie, thinking, thought, understanding), fi cu ochii în patru (be on one's guard, be on the alert, be on the lookout), fi atent la (attend to, give ear to, heed, note, notice), fi atent (be on the spot, follow, hear, listen, notice, watch), dorinţã (accord, appetence, appetency, appetite, craving for, desideratum, desire, device, lust, notion, request, requirement, run, urge, wish, yearning), ţine minte (have, recall, recollect, remember, remind), curent spiritual, intenţie (aim, contemplation, design, effect, meaning, notion, order, purport, purpose, thought, turn, will), concepţie (apprehension, conception, idea, ideology, image, imagination, notion, outlook, principle, realization, school, thinking, view), conştiinţã (conscience, consciousness, scruple), bãga de seamã (remark), avea grijã de (administer to, care, care for, carry, keep, look after, look towards, nurse, overlook, see, see after, take care of), avea ceva împotriva, atracţie (amenity, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, call, charm, draw, endearment, enticement, fancy, fascination, glamor, glamour, grace, pull, seduction), amintire (keepsake, memento, memorial, memory, mention, phantom, recollection, relic, remembrance, souvenir, token), a-i pãsa, înclinaţie (addiction, aptness, disposition, grain, hade, inclination, incline, individuality, lean, leaning, notion, partiality, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, relish, set, squint, taste, tendency, turn, twist, vein, vocation), ţine seama de (allow for, include, make allowance for), dispoziţie (arrangement, condition, disposal, disposition, fondness, humor, humour, inclination, injunction, mandate, mood, nature, order, provision, service, step, stipulation, temper, trim, tune), pãrere (belief, conceit, conviction, dictum, estimate, estimation, hint, idea, judgement, notion, opinion, paradox, say, thinking, verdict, view, voice), suflet (backbone, bosom, breast, breath, conscience, feeling, ghost, head, heart, inner man, Jack, life, life blood, man, mortal, party, peppiness, soul, spirit), stare sufleteascã (cheer, condition, devil, mood, spirit, vein), spirit (apparition, crack, essence, genius, ghost, intellect, quirk, score, shade, shadow, soul, spectre, spirit, spirituousness, sprite, vision, wit), se supãra (make a long nose, sulk, take offense at, take pet at smth., take smth. in bad part), se sinchisi (care), se îngriji de (attend, care, do for, fend, keep, look after, nurse, provide for, see about smth.), raţiune (ground, intellect, intelligence, lucidity, motive, ratio, rationality, reason, sense, understanding, wit), punct de vedere (angle, aspect, color, colour, lookout, opinion, outlook, part, point, regard, sentiment, standpoint, view point), inimã (bosom, bowel, breast, center, centre, character, conscience, core, heart, hearts, life, soul, thick, ticker), plãcere (amusement, delight, enjoyment, gusto, joy, liking, palate, pleasure, pleasuring, prize, satisfaction, unction, willingness), intelect (head, intellect, mentality, nous, spirit, understanding), opinie (apprehension, feeling, judgement, judgment, opinion, regard, sentiment, statement, thinking, view, voice), observa (catch sight of, descry, distinguish, espy, examine, heed, keep, note, notice, observe, perceive, remark, see, sight, study, survey, watch), nu vedea cu ochi buni, nu uita, nu pierde din vedere (keep tab on, keep track of), nu accepta, nota bene (nota bene), lua în considerare (consider, envisage, look at, reck, respect, take into account), urmåri (keep, observe), poftã (appetence, appetency, appetite, desire for, relish, stomach, wish). (various references) | |
Russian | мысль (idea, the thought that, thought), иметь в виду (aim, be advised, bear in mind, contemplate, have in mind, have in view, keep in mind, keep in view, mean, understand by), интеллект (intellect, mentality, nous, reason), память (faculty of conservation, memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence, store), помнить (bear in mind, have in mind, keep in mind, remember, remembered, remembering, retain, think upon), психика (phyche, psyche), желание (appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, desire, the will, want, wish, would, yearnings), дух (ghost, soul, spirit, wraith), мнение (account, belief, expert evidence, notion, opinion, say, sense, thinking, verdict, view, voice), ум (cuteness, grey matter, head, intellect, mentality, minds, pericranium, wit), намерение (aim, contemplation, design, drift, idea, intent, intention, notion, purpose, view), обращать внимание (heed, notice, pay attention, point out, regard, take note, take note of, take notice), остерегаться (be on one's guard, beware, keep clear of, ware), возражать (answer, controvert, demur, deprecate, except, object, objected, objecting, oppugn, reclaim, retort, stickle, take exception to, take objection, talk back, traverse), воспоминание (memorial, memory, recall, recollection, remember, reminiscence), разум (nous, reason, sense, wit), рассудок (brain), заботиться (attend, care, care about, do a thing, exercise care, look after, reck, see to, see to it, study, take care of). (various references) | |
Scottish | inntinn (intention, purpose), inntìnn, innsgin, aigne, aigneadh. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mišljenje (belief, intent, judgement, judgment, opinion, say, thinking, view), mariti (care, matter, reck), um (intellect, nous, wit), svest (conscience, consciousness), paziti (be careful, cherish, heed, look after, look out, pay attention, ware, watch), pamet (brain, cleverness, head, intellect), obraćati pažnju, brinuti se (care about, worry). (various references) | |
Spanish | observar (behold, catch one's eye, catch sight, consider, deem, eye, keep, look, look at, monitor, note, notice, observe, preserve, regard, remark, sight, spy, view, watch), mente (acceptation, erudition, intelligence, knowledge, mentality, sense, signification). (various references) | |
Sranan | kra, akra. (various references) | |
Swedish | själ (mortal, psyche, soul, spirit), tanke (cogitation, idea, opinion, thought), sinne (flair, heart, inclination, sense, taste, temper), minne (keepsake, mem, memento, memory, recall, recollection, relic, remembrance, reminiscence, souvenir, storage, token), håg (inclination, tendency), ha något emot, ande (genie, genius, ghost, intellect, jinn, jinnee, spirit). (various references) | |
Tagalog | ísip. (various references) | |
Thai | สติปัญญา (brain, esprit, intellect), สังเกต (cognize, note, observe, remark), ระวัง (beware), รังเกียจ (loathe, sick), คนฉลาด (sage), ความตั้งใจ (animus, ear, effect), ความจำ, จิตใจ. (various references) | |
Turkish | fikir (advice, attitude, belief, cogitation, conceit, concept, conception, estimation, hint, idea, ideo-, impression, inspiration, notion, opinion, position, sentiments, suggestion, thinking, think-so, thought, verdict, view, voice), akıl (advice, bean, brain, chump, comprehension, consciousness, gray matter, grey matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, loaf, memory, mental, nous, prudence, psyche, reason, sapience, senses, strength of mind, wisdom, wit), aldırış etmek (pay attention), aldırmak (bother about, heed, pay attention, take heed of), şuur (consciousness), bellek (core memory, engram, memory, recollection, retention, store), düşünce (apprehension, attitude, belief, cogitation, conceit, consideration, counsel, fancy, idea, ideo-, judgement, opinion, reasoning, remark, say so, sense, sentiments, thinking, thought, voice), dikkat etmek (be careful, behold, give heed to, heed, keep an eye on, look out, look sharp, look to, make a point of, note, notice, pay attention to, pay heed to, remark, take care, take care of, take heed, take heed of, ware, watch, watch one's step, watch out), önemsemek (attach importance to, care, care about, have a high opinion of, heed, make much of, notice, pay attention to, take heed of), endişelenmek (be worried, bother about, care, feel uneasy about smth., fret, stew, sweat blood, tremble, worry), zihin (consciousness), hafıza (memory, mnemonic, recollection, retention, store), istek (adjuration, alacrity, appetite, aspiration, avidity, bent, claim, demand, desire, device, devoutness, disposition, earnestness, enthusiasm, grace, hunger, instance, intentness, pleasure, propensity, readiness, relish, request, requirement, requisition, stomach, studiousness, suit, urge, want, will, wish, zeal), itaat etmek (obey, submit), kafaya takmak (care, have a bee in one's bonnet, nurse, set one's heart on), karşı çıkmak (antagonize, argue against smth., be faced with, contravene, deprecate, disaffirm, except, face, go against, go counter to, interpose, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, resist, run counter to, set against, traverse), kulak vermek (attend, hark, harken, hear, hearken, heed, lend an ear, lend one's ear, listen carefully, pay attention, take heed of), us (reason, sense, senses), dikkatli olmak (be careful, be particular about, give heed to, keep one's eyes skinned, pay heed to, take care, take heed, watch out). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яьrek (heart, soul), яat (alien, foreign), kelle (head), aс (thought), akyl. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інтелект (brain, intellect, intellection, intelligence, nous), розум (esprit, head, mentality, notion, nous, reason, wit), хвилюватися (bother, care, create, effervesce, fidget, flutter, grizzle, raise a dust, run high, stew, throb, wave, welter), звертати увагу (harken, hearken, notice, pay attention, take notice), заперечувати (abnegate, answer, answer back, challenge, contradict, contravene, demur, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, expostulate, forbid, gainsay, impugn, negative, nill, object, oppugn, rejoin, talk back), погляд (angle, aspect, belief, blush, eye, gander, look, notion, opinion, sight, view, viewpoint), дух (esprit, genie, psyche, soul, spirit), душа (bosom, ghost, heart, psyche, soul), думка (advice, assessment, censure, idea, notion, opinion, pronouncement, think, thinking, thought, voice). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhất định (assuredly, deadset, determinedly, distinct, fail, set, unhesitating), ý nghĩ (channel, idea, thinking), có cái gì lẩn quẩn trong tâm trí phân vân, do dự quyết định, không chú ý (careless, heedless, inattentive, uninterested, unmindful), không toàn tâm toàn ý làm gì có cái gì bận tâm, nghĩ gì nói nấy không để ý, ý định do dự, như ý muốn, trí tuệ (intellect, light, wit), sự chủ tâm, sự lưu ý ý kiến, tâm (centre), tâm trí, tinh thần trí, trí óc ký ức, trí nhớ sự chú ý, nhớ. (various references) | |
Welsh | meindio (care), meddylfryd (affection, bent), malio (care, heed), tendio (tend), gwylio (beware, watch), gwarchod (ward, watch), gofeg (speech, utterance), gofalu (care, take care), bryd (heart, will). (various references) | |
Zulu | akunandaba (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | phren, psykhe, psykhe-. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mens, mens mentis, mente, mentem, mentes, mentibus, mentis, mentium, mentum, pectora, pectorali, pectoralis, pectore, pectoris, pectus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | manangha, ushi. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gemynd, hige, mod. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | esprit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 16, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Alla tauta lelalhka umin ina otan elqh h wra mnhmoneuhte autwn oti egw eipon umin tauta de umin ex archV ouk eipon oti meq umwn hmhn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sed haec locutus sum vobis ut cum venerit hora eorum reminiscamini quia ego dixi vobis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ac þas þing ic eow sægde þæt ge ge-munionþanne heora tid kymð. þæt ic hyteow sægde. Ne sægde ic eow þas þingæt fruman. for-þan þe ich wæs mid eow. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But these thingis Y spak to you, that whanne the our `of hem schal come, ye haue mynde, that Y seide to you. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But these thinges have I tolde you that when that houre is come ye myght remember them that I tolde you so. These thinges sayde I not unto you at the begynninge because I was present with you. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not to you at the beginning, because I was with you. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 16, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Apan gisulti ko kining mga butanga kaninyo aron nga kon moabut na ang ilang takna, inyong mahinumduman nga gikasuginlan ko na kamo mahitungod niini. |
| Croatian | Govorio sam vam ovo da se, kada doðe vrijeme, sjetite da sam vam rekao." "S poèetka vam ne rekoh ovo jer bijah s vama. |
| Danish | Men dette har jeg talt til eder, for at I, når Timen kommer, skulle komme i Hu, at jeg har sagt eder det; men dette sagde jeg eder ikke fra Begyndelsen, fordi jeg var hos eder. |
| Dutch | Maar deze dingen heb Ik tot u gesproken, opdat, wanneer de ure zal gekomen zijn, gij dezelve moogt gedenken, dat Ik ze u gezegd heb; doch deze dingen heb Ik u van het begin niet gezegd, omdat Ik bij ulieden was. |
| Finnish | Mutta tämän minä olen puhunut teille, että, kun se aika tulee, te muistaisitte minun sen teille sanoneen. Tätä minä en ole sanonut teille alusta, koska minä olin teidän kansanne. |
| French | Je vous ai dit ces choses, afin que, lorsque l`heure sera venue, vous vous souveniez que je vous les ai dites. Je ne vous en ai pas parlé dès le commencement, parce que j`étais avec vous. |
| German | Aber solches habe ich zu euch geredet, auf das, wenn die Zeit kommen wird, ihr daran gedenket, daß ich's euch gesagt habe. Solches aber habe ich von Anfang nicht gesagt; denn ich war bei euch. |
| Haitian Creole | Men, mwen di nou sa, se pou lè lè a va rive pou yo fè nou sa nou ka chonje mwen te di nou sa. Mwen pa t' di nou tou sa anvan, paske mwen te la avèk nou. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi sekarang Kukatakan itu kepadamu, supaya kalau itu terjadi nanti, kalian ingat bahwa Aku sudah memberitahukannya kepadamu." "Hal ini tidak Kuberitahukan kepadamu dari semula, sebab Aku masih bersama-sama dengan kalian. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | "Tetapi semuanya ini sudah Kukatakan kepadamu, supaya apabila waktunya sampai kelak kamu boleh ingat, bahwa Aku ini sudah mengatakan demikian kepadamu. Segala perkara ini belum Kukatakan kepadamu dari mulanya, karena Aku ada lagi bersama-sama dengan kamu. |
| Italian | Ma io vi ho detto queste cose perché, quando giungerà la loro ora, ricordiate che ve ne ho parlato. |
| Maori | Otiia kua korerotia enei mea e ahau ki a koutou, mo te puta rawa mai o taua wa, ka mahara koutou ki aua mea, he mea korero naku ki a koutou. Na kihai enei mea i korerotia e ahau ki a koutou i te timatanga, no te mea e noho ana ahau i a koutou. |
| Norwegian | Men dette har jeg talt til eder, forat I, når timen kommer, da skal minnes at jeg sa eder det; men dette sa jeg eder ikke fra begynnelsen av, fordi jeg da var hos eder. |
| Portuguese | Mas tenho-vos dito estas coisas, a fim de que, quando chegar aquela hora, vos lembreis de que eu vo-las tinha dito. Não vo-las disse desde o princípio, porque estava convosco. |
| Rumanian | V`am spus aceste lucruri, pentruca, atunci cknd le va veni ceasul sq se kmplineascq, sq vq aduceyi aminte cq vi le-am spus. Nu vi le-am spus dela knceput, pentrucq eram cu voi. |
| Russian | оП с УЛБЪБМ ЧБН УЙЕ ДМС ФПЗП, ЮФПВЩ ЧЩ, ЛПЗДБ РТЙДЕФ ФП ЧТЕНС ЧУРПНОЙМЙ, ЮФП с УЛБЪЩЧБМ ЧБН П ФПН; ОЕ ЗПЧПТЙМ ЦЕ УЕЗП ЧБН УОБЮБМБ, РПФПНХ ЮФП ВЩМ У ЧБНЙ. |
| Shuar | Núnaka Yamái Tájame. Tura Túrunamtai "Núnisan átiniaiti" timiaj nu nekaarum itiurchat Enentáimprairap' Tímiayi. `Atumjai tuke Pujá asan Núnaka yaunchu ujakchamajrume. |
| Spanish | Sin embargo, os he dicho estas cosas, para que cuando venga su hora, os acordéis de ellas, que yo os las dije. "Sin embargo, no os dije esto al principio, porque yo estaba con vosotros. |
| Swahili | Basi, nimewaambieni mambo haya ili saa yake itakapofika mkumbuke kwamba niliwaambieni. "Sikuwaambieni mambo haya tangu mwanzo kwa sababu nilikuwa pamoja nanyi. |
| Swedish | Men detta har jag talat till eder, för att I, när den tiden är inne, skolen komma ihåg att jag har sagt eder det. Jag sade eder det icke från begynnelsen, ty jag var ju hos eder. |
| Uma | Ku'uli' -kokoi tohe'i, bona ane madupa' -pi mpai', nikiwoi-mi ka'oti-nami ku'uli' -kokoi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mind": mindblower, mindblowers, minded, mindedness, mindednesses, minder, minders, mindful, mindfully, mindfulness, mindfulnesses, minding, mindless, mindlessly, mindlessness, mindlessnesses, minds, mindset, mindsets. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mind": mastermind, remind, reremind, supermind. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mind": absentminded, absentmindedly, absentmindedness, absentmindednesses, feebleminded, feeblemindedly, feeblemindedness, feeblemindednesses, masterminded, masterminding, masterminds, netminder, netminders, reminded, reminder, reminders, remindful, reminding, reminds, rereminded, rereminding, rereminds, simpleminded, simplemindedly, simplemindedness, simplemindednesses, superminds, unmindful, zamindar, zamindari, zamindaris, zamindars, zemindar, zemindaries, zemindars, zemindary. (additional references) | |
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"Mind" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aind, eind, emind, imd, imeand, jind, mahd, Majd, mand, Mandji, Mandl, mando, Mandu, manv, meand, Meindl, menda, mendi, Mendl, mendo, menf, Mfid, Midh, mied, mijn, mim, minc, minda, minde, mindy, minf, ming, minn, mino, minod, Minw, miond, mird, miud, mixd, Mmisd, mnbdo, mnd, Mnda, Mndid, Mndo, Mnod, mond, mondo, muint, Mund, Mundt, myd, mynd, myng, Myod, Nand, yind, zind. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mind" (pronounced mī"nd) |
| 4 | m ī" n d | mined, remind, undermined. |
| 3 | -ī" n d | aligned, assigned, behind, bind, blind, combined, confined, consigned, declined, defined, designed, dined, intertwined, kind, lined, disinclined, enshrined, entwined, find, fined, grind, hind, inclined, maligned, mankind, opined, realigned, reassigned, redefined, redesigned, refined, resigned, rind, shined, signed, twined, unconfined, undefined, unkind, unlined, unrefined, unsigned, unwind, wind, wined. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: dim, din, mid, nim. | |
-2 letters: id, in, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: denim, minds, mined. | |
+2 letters: aidman, aidmen, amidin, daimen, daimon, denims, diamin, dinkum, domain, domine, doming, domino, dormin, emodin, impend, indium, limned, maiden, mantid, median, medina, midden, milden, minced, minded, minder, minted, monied, nimmed, nimrod, nudism, remind. | |
+3 letters: amidine, amidins, amidone, birdman, birdmen, daimons, damming, damnify, damning, damping, deeming, demoing, demonic, diamine, diamins, diamond, dimming, dimness, dinkums, dislimn, domains, domines, dominie, dominos, dooming, dormins, drumlin, dubnium, dumbing, dumping, dynamic, emodins, endemic, ermined, hominid, impends, imponed, impound, inarmed, indamin, indiums, inhumed, kingdom, madding, maidens, mandril, mankind, mantids, maudlin, medians, mediant, medinas, melding, mendigo, mending, middens, midiron, midland, midline, midnoon, midtown, mildens, minders, mindful, minding, mindset, mingled, minored, minuend, minuted, misbind, misdone, missend, mistend, molding, monacid, monadic, monodic, mudding, mueddin, mutined, nimrods, nomadic, nudisms, reminds, rimland, sideman, sidemen, smidgen, smidgin, unaimed, unmined, unmixed, unrimed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Bibliography |
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