thinking

thinking /'θiɳkiɳ/
  • danh từ
    • sự suy nghĩ, sự nghĩ ngợi, sự trầm tư
    • tư tưởng, ý nghĩ, ý kiến
      • high thinking: tư tưởng cao xa
      • to my thinking: theo ý kiến tôi
  • tính từ
    • suy nghĩ, suy xét, nghĩ ngợi

Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): think, rethink, thinker, thinking, think, unthinkable

Xem thêm: thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation, intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a), believe, consider, conceive, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess, cogitate, cerebrate, remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, intend, mean



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