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Definition of Think

Think

  1. Act of thinking; a thought.
  2. To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
  3. To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
  4. To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
  5. To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.
  6. To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.
  7. To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.
  8. To presume; to venture.
  9. To conceive; to imagine.
  10. To plan or design; to plot; to compass.
  11. To believe; to consider; to esteem.

Think Quotations

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill
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Think Translations

think in Afrikaans is dink, oorweeg
think in Dutch is geloven, van mening zijn, achten
think in Finnish is arvella, ajatella
think in German is denken, denken, denken/glaube, glauben, meinen
think in Latin is puto
think in Norwegian is tenke
think in Portuguese is pense, pensar
think in Spanish is razonar, pensar, acordarse

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