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Synonyms: Think AboutSynonyms: entertain (v), flirt with (v), think of (v), toy with (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prohibition | Phrase: that will never do; don't you dare; forget it; don't even think about doing it;"go ahead; make my day ". |
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Crosswords: Think About |
| English words defined with "think about": Any more ♦ brood ♦ consider ♦ debate, deliberate, dwell ♦ gloat ♦ in the meantime ♦ meantime, meanwhile, moot ♦ puzzle ♦ turn over ♦ worry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "think about": Babel, tower of ♦ Eavesdrop ♦ hash collision, Hon'i ♦ Knuth ♦ Mark study ♦ Peter, Second Epistle of ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Rogue ♦ saw, story ♦ Talking, topic drift ♦ You know you've been hacking too long when, You know you've been hacking too long when.... (references) |
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Screenplays | I don't think about it, Shakes. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) When you think about it, it's just as arbitrary as drinking coffee. (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon) Now did you answer cause you thought that's what I wanted to hear or did you think about what I said and answer cause you truly believe that to be right? (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch) Just you think about that, Lebowski. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) How can I make a reservation for a hotel room? Think about it. A kid coming into a hotel, making a reservation? (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes) | |
Lyrics | The only thing I think about (Whip Appeal; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Perri Smith) I think about you every night (Hello Again; performing artist: Neil Diamond; writing credit: Neil Diamond and Alan Lindgren) And if you ever think about me (Don't Turn Around; performing artist: Ace Of Base) How many times will I think about the things (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply) Baby, when I think about you (Feel Like Making Love; performing artist: Bad Company) | |
Clever | You better think about the future, for it's where you will spend the rest of your life. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Think About It (1968) I'll Think About It (1975) | |
Song Titles | I WILL ALWAYS THINK ABOUT YOU (performing artist: New Colony 6) | |
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![]() | Life without a driver's license? : Think about it before you drink and drive.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | What's Your Excuse? : Think About It!.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Now you got something pretty to think about.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | 13 things to think about in difficult times.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Lamb | Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them. |
Helen Keller | I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. |
Richard Whately | To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.'' |
William Hazlitt | We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | We must think about this. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You're angry and tired and the more you think about the assignment, the tenser you become. (references) | |
Think about things that will help you cope. Many people find listening to music very helpful. (references) | ||
When people think about bats, they often imagine things that are not true. Bats are not blind. (references) | ||
Business | Also, the installed base will become a good opportunity in other related product groups such as peripherals to seriously think about setting up operations in the country. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Egypt | On May 6, the Islamic Research Center called for the banning from circulation of two books, "The Woes of Toads," by Alaa Hamed and "A Call to Think About the Quran and the Hadith," by Ibrahim Abu Khalil. (references) |
Economic History | Canada | We believe that for export-ready US firms, or for companies that are just beginning to think about exporting, Canada is the logical first choice. (references) |
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Barbara Eden | Oh, sure, because you don't think about anything else but what you're doing. That's your world. It's afterwards that's bad. |
Cary Goldstein | Well, exactly. We believe that, you know, rather than have Earle sit and rot in the jail cell with lots of time to think about, do I really want to do this, maybe I'll just tell them what they need to know about Robert, they bailed him. |
Lynne Cheney | You know, I mostly don't think about it. And I think I take my instruction from Dick on that. You know how you handle it. You worry about what you can change, you know. And I am a bit of a nag sometimes. |
Nellie Connally | The third bullet. And, see, just think about it. Six seconds a shot. John turns, can't see anything. He turns over here, he can't see anything. He starts back and there's another shot. That bullet couldn't have just hung in the air. |
Priscilla Presley | I mean, I threatened them. I said, you're ruining my life. I mean, I gave them a lot of things to think about, too, that they were ruining my life and probably my fate. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We can laugh about this, but you think about it. |
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Expressions using "think about": don't even think about doing it ♦ please think about it. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
when you think about me | 73 |
i think about you | 70 |
something to think about | 12 |
think about it | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "think about"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | oorweeg (account, consider, esteem, reflect, reflect on, regard, take, take into account, think). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjykoj (adjudge, adjudicate, arbitrate, consider, damn, daresay, denounce, impeach, judge, look in the matter, reason, referee, try, umpire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обмислям (agitate, bethink, cogitate, consider, debate, deliberate, digest, meditate, mull, ponder, pore, reason, revolve, speculate, study, think out, think over, turn over in one's mind), мисля си за, мисля за (think of), интересувам се от (follow, go in for). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | synes (account, deem, meditate, opine, reflect on, think, think to oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zinnen op (reflect on, think), zinnen (meditate, phrases, please, reflect on, think, think to oneself), wikken (reflect on, think), overdenken (reflect on, think), nadenken (meditate, reflect on, think, think to oneself), bedenken (fancy, imagine, invent, reflect on, think). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | pripensi (reflect on, think). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ajattele ehdotustani (think about my proposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réfléchir (think). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nachdenken (cogitate, consider, contemplate, contemplation, deliberate, meditate, meditation, ponder, reflect, reflection, speculate, think, think on, think over, think to oneself, thought, to cogitate), bedenken (bethink, compunction, consider, consideration, consult, demur, doubt, mental reservation, misgiving, preconceive, qualm, qualms, reflect, reflect on, reflection, remember, reservation, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, take into consideration, think, think on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξετάζω (consider, examine, go over, inquire, investigate, look over, probe, pry, query, question, quiz, screen, scrutinise), αναλογίζομαι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לתת דעתו (pay attention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memikirkan (meditate over), memikiri (be aware, mindful of, worry over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riflettere (be reflected, bethink, consider, deliberate, image, ponder, reflect, think, think over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 考えてみれば (if you think about it). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かんがえてみれば (if you think about it). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | smooinaghtyn er (consider, contemplate, envisage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkthay aboutay przemyśleć. (various references) refletir (bethink, consider, esteem, glass, glisten, image, meditate, mirrors, reflect, reflect on, regard, return, reverberate, ruminate, see, speculate, take into account, think, think over), pensar sobre (think over), pensar a respeito, pensar (believe, brain, debate, guess, imagine, reason, reflect on, see, think, thinking, Trow). (various references) se gândi la (bethink oneself of, conceive of, think of). (various references) razmisliti o. (various references) reflexionar (consider, debate, deliberate, doubts, meditate, ponder, reflect, reflect on, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, think, think over). (various references) tänka på (consult, frame, have in mind, mind, think of), fundera på (debate, reflect, think of), betänka (bear in mind, consider, reflect, reflect on, think, think of), besinna (change one's mind, consider, reflect, reflect on, think, think of), begrunda (contemplate, reflect on, think), övertänka (reflect on, think). (various references) meddwl am. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-k-n-o-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: outthank, outthink. | |
-4 letters: battik, bhakti, bohunk, bonita, button, kation, obtain, outhit, tanuki. | |
-5 letters: about, baith, batik, baton, battu, biont, biota, bunko, habit, haiku, haunt, knout, nubia, tabun, taint, takin, tanto, taunt, thank, think, thunk, titan, unhat. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 69 6E 6B      41 62 6F 75 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01000001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h i n k   A b o u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0069 006E 006B      0041 0062 006F 0075 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547475807723568818786 |
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