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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thinking
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be right in saying/thinking etc
▪ I think I’m right in saying they once employed 2000 people.
joined-up thinking
▪ the need for joined-up thinking between departments
lateral thinking
mislead sb into believing/thinking etc sth
▪ Don’t be misled into thinking that scientific research is easy.
positive thinking
▪ Many people believe that positive thinking can help your recovery from serious illnesses.
quick thinking
▪ Robertson’s quick thinking had saved the little girl’s life.
sb can’t help feeling/thinking/wondering etc sth
▪ I can’t help feeling that there has been a mistake.
▪ I couldn’t help thinking about the past.
wishful thinking
▪ I think she rather likes me. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
critical
▪ But critical thinking continues beyond perception - towards the actions that people can take to gain control over their lives.
▪ Although this trigger, like other triggers, presents open-ended problematic situations, critical thinking does not occur spontaneously.
▪ There are those who feel uncomfortable with the exposure critical thinking brings.
▪ To show how to apply critical thinking to your studies.
▪ The National Curriculum offers an opportunity for a school to engage in critical thinking about practice.
▪ First, at its core is the idea that critical thinking is a particular kind of intellectual activity in its own right.
current
▪ Tandem's move reinforces current thinking which sees microkernel system software as very much an up and coming trend across the industry.
▪ In medicine, however, it is precisely the current thinking in the field that one is after.
▪ The current thinking is to sell off freight services first.
lateral
▪ Post-war lateral thinking solved the problem by abolishing the school, but the building survived that, too.
▪ Arrangement of ideas on the board provides a stimulus for new ideas and lateral thinking. 4.
▪ Others include lateral thinking, straight and crooked thinking, potential problem analysis, rational decision-making, and so on.
▪ So a little lateral thinking was called for.
▪ And that very excess of safety inspired some bright Vadinamians in to a galaxy-class piece of lateral thinking.
▪ It was a peculiar form of lateral thinking, inspired by instinct.
▪ The model represents most of de Bono's ideas on lateral thinking.
▪ Hudevad. Lateral thinking brings environmental benefits.
new
▪ Slessor believed that the new thinking met Britain's interests in both the short and long term.
▪ In this way the original insights of New Right thinking have acquired for themselves a bad name.
▪ This is currently the main thrust of new thinking about Bach.
▪ Communicating ideas Memos are often used to put forward a view or to provide new thinking on a subject.
▪ The new thinking in Brussels is that labour laws should focus on general objectives and leave details to national governments.
political
▪ The political thinking behind the break-up is less predictable.
strategic
▪ Isn't this what the core of strategic thinking is all about?
▪ Moreover, it is only recently that some have engaged in such strategic thinking at all.
wishful
▪ Lomas, for instance, finds his pleasure in wishful thinking about the war.
▪ Personally I see this as wishful thinking rather than practical logic.
▪ Mere logic and abstinence from wishful thinking had enabled Milner to summarise the story of the next sixty years.
▪ Coping with waste will always be hard, and hypocrisy and wishful thinking will not make it easier.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I wasn't thinking
▪ Sorry, I wasn't thinking. Do you want a cup too?
be thinking of sb
▪ He felt he ought now to be thinking of writing a book - but on what?
▪ He was thinking of settling in this land of freedom, he told me as I sat down opposite.
▪ I was thinking of a text illustrated with his photographs: a memorial.
▪ I was thinking of getting in touch.
▪ It was obvious to Celestine that he was thinking of something else.
▪ On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying.
▪ She was so embarrassed she said she was thinking of changing her last name.
▪ They were thinking of wives and little ones far away, and wondering if they would ever see them again.
forward planning/thinking
▪ A bit of forward planning would have ensured a sum was put aside in the budget.
▪ A little bit of forward thinking years ago has put the Eagles in terrific position now.
▪ But he does want to stimulate constructive forward thinking.
▪ Findings relate to expenditure, degree of forward planning, objectives, workforce attitudes, management awareness and use of consultancies.
▪ His introduction to the art of place-kicking, however, was hardly a result of deep forward planning.
▪ In each of the schools, the library was clearly still high on the agenda for forward planning and review.
▪ It is at this point that proper forward planning and the use of the time log become of crucial importance.
▪ The message which emerges is clearly one of forward planning to avoid any undesirable over-involvement in management decisions.
get to thinking/wondering sth
▪ In any case, she had now got to thinking of other things.
▪ Then they got to thinking that maybe you were dead.
▪ There's blood in your body, and I get to thinking about what would happen if your blood froze.
▪ When you've been around guys like Mr. B. awhile, you get to thinking the way they think.
sb can be forgiven for thinking/believing/feeling etc sth
sth doesn't bear thinking about
▪ The reaction I'll get when my parents find out doesn't even bear thinking about.
to my way of thinking
▪ I never could understand what she saw in him - a bit thin and weedy, to my way of thinking.
▪ The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.
▪ The frigid lands, to my way of thinking, provide good support of the Catastrophe Theory of Earth's evolution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His statements closely reflect government thinking.
▪ The report goes against current thinking on what is best for working parents.
▪ There has been a change in thinking in terms of the influence of diet on the disease.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although this trigger, like other triggers, presents open-ended problematic situations, critical thinking does not occur spontaneously.
▪ But the dynamics of his thinking have never been easy to explain.
▪ However, they had little effect on the mainstream of Conservative thinking.
▪ Opportunity for mathematical experience and the development of mathematical thinking might seem unlikely to occur readily in the Home Corner.
▪ These show how pupils' mathematical thinking may be inferred from what they do and say.
▪ This is currently the main thrust of new thinking about Bach.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
man
▪ I wondered how it came to pass that a thinking man bore the prejudices of his unthinking parents into the future?
▪ Northumberland had more use for him; he was temperamentally closer to this coldly thinking man than to his own son.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I wasn't thinking
▪ Sorry, I wasn't thinking. Do you want a cup too?
be thinking of sb
▪ He felt he ought now to be thinking of writing a book - but on what?
▪ He was thinking of settling in this land of freedom, he told me as I sat down opposite.
▪ I was thinking of a text illustrated with his photographs: a memorial.
▪ I was thinking of getting in touch.
▪ It was obvious to Celestine that he was thinking of something else.
▪ On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying.
▪ She was so embarrassed she said she was thinking of changing her last name.
▪ They were thinking of wives and little ones far away, and wondering if they would ever see them again.
get to thinking/wondering sth
▪ In any case, she had now got to thinking of other things.
▪ Then they got to thinking that maybe you were dead.
▪ There's blood in your body, and I get to thinking about what would happen if your blood froze.
▪ When you've been around guys like Mr. B. awhile, you get to thinking the way they think.
sb can be forgiven for thinking/believing/feeling etc sth
sth doesn't bear thinking about
▪ The reaction I'll get when my parents find out doesn't even bear thinking about.
to my way of thinking
▪ I never could understand what she saw in him - a bit thin and weedy, to my way of thinking.
▪ The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.
▪ The frigid lands, to my way of thinking, provide good support of the Catastrophe Theory of Earth's evolution.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Nigel knew that he would be the choice of any thinking woman, in spite of Jo's remarks.
▪ No huge feat, let's be honest, although Paul Merton is indeed emerging as the thinking woman's Chippendale.
▪ Persons, for Descartes, are mental or immaterial thinking substances.
▪ That's often the trouble with thinking machines.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thinking

Thinking \Think"ing\, n. The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
--Shak.

Thinking

Thinking \Think"ing\, a. Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.

Thinking

Think \Think\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thought; p. pr. & vb. n. Thinking.] [OE. thinken, properly, to seem, from AS. [thorn]yncean (cf. Methinks), but confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. [thorn]encean (imp. [thorn][=o]hte); akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, d["u]nken, Icel. [thorn]ekkja to perceive, to know, [thorn]ykkja to seem, Goth. [thorn]agkjan, [thorn]aggkjan, to think, [thorn]ygkjan to think, to seem, OL. tongere to know. Cf. Thank, Thought.]

  1. To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

    Note: These are genuine Anglo-Saxon expressions, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions me is in the dative case.

  2. To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.

    For that I am I know, because I think.
    --Dryden.

  3. Specifically: (a) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. Well thought upon; I have it here. --Shak. (b) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. And when he thought thereon, he wept. --Mark xiv. 72. He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? --Luke xii. 17. (c) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow. Let them marry to whom they think best. --Num. xxxvi. 6. (d) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. I thought to promote thee unto great honor. --Num. xxiv. 1

    1. Thou thought'st to help me.
      --Shak. (e) To presume; to venture.

      Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father.
      --Matt. iii. 9.

      Note: To think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts pre["e]minently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. Thinking is employed by Hamilton as ``comprehending all our collective energies.'' It is defined by Mansel as ``the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts,''by Lotze as ``the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences.'' See Thought.

      To think better of. See under Better.

      To think much of, or To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly.

      Syn: To expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe. See Expect, Guess.

Wiktionary
thinking

n. gerund of think. vb. (present participle of think English)

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WordNet
thinking

adj. endowed with the capacity to reason [syn: intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)]

thinking

n. the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought" [syn: thought, cerebration, intellection, mentation]

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Wikipedia
Thinking (poem)

"Thinking" is a poem written by Walter D. Wintle, a poet who lived in the late 19th and early 20th century. Little to nothing is known about any details of his life. "Thinking" is also known as "The Man Who Thinks He Can".

In the 20th century, different versions of the poem have been published. To this date, it is unknown which version correctly represents the original version, but it is strongly believed that the version below, published at least as early as 1905 ("Unity" College Magazine), embodies the original and unaltered poem. The exact date of the first, original publication of "Thinking" is unknown.

Thinking (song)

Thinking is a song by Roger Daltrey. the song was written by David Courtney and Leo Sayer. The song was originally released on Daltrey's self-titled début solo album, ' Daltrey' and released as a single in 1973.

The non-album B-side "There is Love" features Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin on guitar. the song was left out because "It didn't fit in with the final context of the album." explained Daltrey "so we had to leave it out". The song is included on the Sanctuary remaster.

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Usage examples of "thinking".

The thinking machines had been eradicated here, and the humans had caused so much damage to accomplish it that even they could no longer live on their own ancestral home planet.

For they do not know that evil is the enjoyment of the lust of acting and thinking contrary to divine order, and good is the enjoyment of the affection for acting and thinking in accord with divine order.

Other things, which pertain to the understanding and hence to the thinking, called matters of faith, are provided everyone in accord with his life, for they are accessory to life and if they have been given precedence, do not become living until they are subsidiary.

Tarquin, thinking it advisable to pursue the enemy closely while in this consternation, after sending the booty and the prisoners to Rome, piling up and burning the spoils which he had vowed to Vulcan, proceeds to lead his army onward into the Sabine territory.

What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.

Ged veered the boat once more, thinking he had run his enemy to ground: in that instant it vanished, and it was his boat that ran aground, smashing up on shoal rocks that the blowing mist had hidden from his sight.

Martin Allegro was not thinking of how incongruously comic the historical Fuhrer had looked, not even thinking of the gloomy future Brother Matthew had predicted.

Almost everything so far had been pitched to discourage him from thinking analytically, but nonetheless .

All-Soul being whittled down into fragments, yet this is what they would be doing, annulling the All-Soul--if any collective soul existed at all--making it a mere piece of terminology, thinking of it like wine separated into many portions, each portion, in its jar, being described as a portion of the total thing, wine.

Thinking that I might wish to settle in France, he left me at his departure, together with the papers establishing my identity, a letter promising, if he approved of my choice, 150,000 livres per annum from the day I was married.

Without thinking, his life ruined, his torment too much to bear, he leapt apon her and drove his hunting knife through her back and into her heart.

By condensing the content of observation and thinking into concepts and rules, or general experiences and principles, or ideals and general notions, apperception produces connection and order in our knowledge and volition.

Nevertheless, he was correct in thinking that our voluntary imposition of a meaningless notation upon an object apprehended is the way in which at least some words must acquire their meaning.

Kethry nodded, thinking of how much pain the Archivist was already in.

He found himself thinking that the whole arty get-up seemed oddly at variance with the way she was acting.