n. Function: verb
1 to form an idea of something in the mind FF1C; try to think exactly how the accident happened FF1E;
Synonyms: conceive, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, image, imagine, project, realize, see, vision, visualize
Related Words: consider, contemplate, study, weigh; appreciate, comprehend, understand; cerebrate, ideate; conjecture, guess, surmise
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Synonyms: UNDERSTAND 3, assume, believe, expect, gather, imagine, ||reckon, suppose, suspect, take
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Synonyms: CONJECTURE , guess, presume, pretend, suppose, surmise
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Synonyms: FEEL 3, believe, consider, credit, deem, hold, sense
Related Words: estimate; regard
5 to use one's powers of conception, judgment, or inference FF1C; the power to think sets humans apart from other animals FF1E;
Synonyms: cerebrate, cogitate, deliberate, reason, reflect, speculate
Related Words: consider, contemplate; brood, meditate, mull, muse, ponder, ruminate; intellectualize, logicalize, logicize, rationalize; conclude, deduce, infer, judge
Idioms: put on one's thinking cap, set one's brain to work, use one's head, use the old bean