thinking
The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.
Noun
- The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.
- A thought.
- What is your thinking on this subject?
- But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness. - 2013 August 3, “The...
- When BR "back-checked" (BR's term) the financial results of steam replacement across 49 schemes, where DMUs had been substituted on the London Midland Region, only one was now profitable. BR thinking on such...
Origin
From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think + -ing.
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convergent thinking divergent thinking freethinking group-thinking metathinking parallel thinking smart thinking thinking cap thinking man's thinking person's thinking woman's way of thinking
Verb
- present participle and gerund of think
- I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine.
- He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their...
Origin
From Middle English thenkinge, þinkynge, þenkynge, þenchinde, from Old English þenċende, from Proto-Germanic *þankijandz, present participle of *þankijaną (“to think”), equivalent to think + -ing. Cognate with Dutch denkend (“thinking”), German denkend (“thinking”), Swedish tänkande (“thinking”).
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