thinking

Từ điển Collocation

thinking noun

1 using your mind to think

ADJ. deep, hard, serious This topic requires a lot of deep thinking. | good Yes, we'll phone them instead?that's good thinking (= a good idea). | clear, logical | muddled | quick | forward The school would have made better use of the money with a little forward thinking. | positive | abstract, analytical, critical | creative, independent, innovative, original | lateral | wishful His claims to be a millionaire are just wishful thinking.

QUANT. piece a brilliant piece of lateral thinking

VERB + THINKING do We have some hard thinking to do before we agree to the plan. | apply The book shows you how to apply critical thinking to your studies.

PREP. ~ behind It was difficult to see what the thinking was behind their eventual decision.

2 opinion

ADJ. contemporary, current, modern | fresh, new | conventional, old, traditional | divergent | government | Labour, Republican, etc. | economic, educational, historical, political, scientific, etc. Traditional educational thinking placed importance on learning by rote. | feminist, socialist, etc. | military, strategic

VERB + THINKING develop, shape | clarify, explain | change They are unlikely to have changed their thinking so soon. | dominate His writings on motorized warfare dominated strategic thinking in the 1930s.

PREP. in … ~ contemporary trends in feminist thinking | ~ about/on What is the current Conservative thinking on social security?

PHRASES a shift in sb's thinking There's been a shift in government thinking on genetically-modified food. | to sb's way of thinking (= in sb's opinion) To my way of thinking, it would just be a massive waste of money.

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • an instance of deliberate thinking

    I need to give it a good think

    v.

  • judge or regard; look upon; judge; believe, consider, conceive

    I think he is very smart

    I believe her to be very smart

    I think that he is her boyfriend

    The racist conceives such people to be inferior

  • expect, believe, or suppose; opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess

    I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel

    I thought to find her in a bad state

    he didn't think to find her in the kitchen

    I guess she is angry at me for standing her up

  • use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; cogitate, cerebrate

    I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere

  • recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect

    I can't remember saying any such thing

    I can't think what her last name was

    can you remember her phone number?

    Do you remember that he once loved you?

    call up memories

  • imagine or visualize

    Just think--you could be rich one day!

    Think what a scene it must have been!

  • focus one's attention on a certain state

    Think big

    think thin

  • have in mind as a purpose; intend, mean

    I mean no harm

    I only meant to help you

    She didn't think to harm me

    We thought to return early that night

  • decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting

    Can you think what to do next?

  • ponder; reflect on, or reason about

    Think the matter through

    Think how hard life in Russia must be these days

  • dispose the mind in a certain way

    Do you really think so?

  • have or formulate in the mind

    think good thoughts

  • be capable of conscious thought

    Man is the only creature that thinks

  • bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

    She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


ant.: unthinkingthinks|thought|thinking
syn.: concentrate conclude consider contemplate deliberate expect gather guess imagine infer judge meditate ponder reason study suppose suspect theorize understand