Thinking
[θɪŋkɪŋ] or ['θɪŋkɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; 'thinking always made him frown'; 'she paused for thought'.
Checked by Herman--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Think
(a.) Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.
(n.) The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.
Typist: Lottie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Reflection, meditation, cogitation, musing, contemplation.[2]. Judgment, opinion, thought, belief.
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Examples
- Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And you, last night, thinking about how you and your grandfather were so terrific and your father was a coward. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- My impression is that the shock inflicted on me completely suspended my thinking and feeling power. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Her face was radiant like gold, as she sat thinking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I suppose you're thinking of the shop. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I was thinking whether you wouldn't like me to be rich? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She must have a sensation of being honoured, and whether thinking of herself or her brother, she must have a strong feeling of gratitude. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I was thinking. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- To put it mildly, is it ever safe to ignore them entirely in our thinking? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Goes through the archvay, thinking how he should inwest the money--up comes the touter, touches his hat--“Licence, Sir, licence? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- This has set me thinking. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was just thinking--But will you run the risk of dinner? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- These methods of thinking, and of expressing ourselves, are not of so little consequence as they may appear at first sight. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Edited by Eva