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Webster 1913 Edition
Thinking
Think′ing
,Adj.
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas;
– as, man is a
. thinking
beingThink′ing-ly
, adv.
Think′ing
,Noun.
The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.
I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my
Whose music, to my
thinking
, pleased the king. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Thinking
THINK'ING
,ppr.
1.
a. Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas. Man is a thinking being.
THINK'ING
,Noun.
I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the king.
Definition 2024
thinking
thinking
English
Noun
thinking (usually uncountable, plural thinkings)
- Gerund of think.
- 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- 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.
- What is your thinking on this subject?
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Derived terms
Terms derived from thinking (noun)
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Translations
thinking, thought
Verb
thinking
- present participle of think
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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 part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
- I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine.
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