1
[ verb ] attribute to a source or cause

Examples

"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"

2
[ verb ] look on as or consider

Examples

: "she looked on this affair as a joke" "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"

Used in print

(Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)

At_once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took_to_be Spanish , but - the driver 's white teeth flashing at me , the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair , beyond his gesticulating bottle - it could have been the purest Oxford_English I was half hearing ; I would n't have known the difference .

Related terms

think

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