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[ verb ] keep in mind for attention or consideration

Synonyms

remember

Examples

"Remember the Alamo" "Remember to call your mother every day!" "Think of the starving children in India!"

Used in print

("Week by Week"...)

We now have to think not_only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake .

(Ann Carnahan, Nick Manero's Cook-out Barbeque...)

You only have_to think_of franks and sausages to know what I mean .

(Glenn Infield, "America's Secret Poison Gas Tragedy"...)

He thought_of the tons and tons of flammable fluid beneath his feet and shook his head .

(Winfred Van Atta, Shock Treatment....)

I suddenly thought_of Mary_Jane Brennan , the way her pretty eyes could flash with_anger , her quiet competence , the gentleness and sweetness that lay just beneath the surface of her defenses .

`` What about your father and mother , do n't you think_of them when you 're in a place like this '' ?

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[ verb ] attribute to a source or cause

Examples

"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"

3
[ 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

(Terence O'Donnell, "Evenings at the Bridge"...)

They think_of it as a kind_of spooky museum in_which they may half see and half imagine the old splendor .

(Richard B. Morris, "Seven Who Set Our Destiny"...)

They thought_of themselves , to use Jefferson 's words , as `` the Argonauts '' who had lived in `` the Heroic_Age '' .

(C. R. Wylie, Jr. "Line involutions in S3 whose...)

Hence , thought_of as a line in a particular plane � p , any tangent to Q has a unique image and moreover this image is the same for all planes through l .

(James Blish, The Star Dwellers....)

And it might be , considering the uncomfortable custom the Angels had of thinking_of everything in_terms_of absolutes , that the proposal of anything less might well amount instead to something like a declaration of war .

Related terms

think

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[ verb ] take into consideration, have in view

Examples

"He entertained the notion of moving to South America"

Used in print

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

For a moment she thought_of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied_away_from virginity , who demanded some degree of education in body as_well_as mind .

(Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)

Without saying so , she was really grateful ; for to attend the dying was something she had never experienced , and certainly had not imagined when she thought_of the duties she would have as Bobby_Joe 's wife .

(Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)

If you are thinking_of giving him a berth , be sure to make it a wide one '' .

Related terms

contemplate

5
[ verb ] intend to refer to

Synonyms

mean have_in_mind

Examples

"I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France" "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"

Used in print

(John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)

In contrast to `` E._B. '' , most Rhode_Islanders hardly thought_of John_Brown as being another Moses .

(Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)

Warren thought_of all the men out that night who , like himself , had left their protective ridge and - fear working at their guts - picked their way into the area beyond .

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

He thought first of his son and daughter , away at college .

Then , getting_back into bed , he thought unashamedly of Mrs._Flannagan , planning where they would next meet and what they would do .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

She thought again of her children , those two who had died young , before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies .

Related terms

relate associate mention

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[ verb ] devise or invent

Examples

"He thought up a plan to get rich quickly" "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

In later collages of both masters , a variety of extraneous materials are used , sometimes in the same work , and almost always in_conjunction_with every other eye-deceiving and eye-undeceiving device they can think_of .

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

He could think_of nothing else to tell them : no assurances , no hopeful hints at great discoveries that day .

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

All they could think_of was to run_around in circles , kicking their legs out .

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[ verb ] choose in one's mind

Examples

"Think of any integer between 1 and 25"

Related terms

choose

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