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English

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A girl inthought

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishthought,ithoȝt, fromOld Englishþōht,ġeþōht, fromProto-West Germanic*þą̄ht, fromProto-Germanic*þanhtaz,*gaþanhtą(“thought”), fromProto-Indo-European*teng-(“to think”). Cognate withScotsthocht(“thought”),Saterland FrisianToacht(“thought”),West Frisiandacht(“attention, regard, thought”),Dutchgedachte(“thought”),GermanAndacht(“reverence, devotion, prayer”),Icelandicþóttur(“thought”). Related tothank,think.

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Noun

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thought (countable anduncountable,pluralthoughts)

  1. (countable) Arepresentation created in themind without the use of one'sfaculties ofvision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; aninstance ofthinking.
    The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose onethought over another.
    I hate thethought of going back to work Monday morning.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guiltythoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      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 histhoughts.
  2. (uncountable) Theoperation by which mental activityarise or aremanipulated; theprocess ofthinking; theagency by whichthinking isaccomplished.
    Synonym:thinking(noun)
    Coordinate terms:cognition,cogitation(loosely synonymous);emotion,feelings
    Without freedom ofthought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
    • a.1983,Paul Fix (attributed quote)
      The only reason some people get lost inthought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
    • 2003,Roy Porter,Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.1, at p.14, 15:
      What has been especially striking in recent decades, however, is the rise of new outlooks challenging the very idea of a nucleated (if evasive) inner personal identity. [...] We don't think ourthoughts, they think us; we are but the bearers of discourses, our selves are discursive constructs. Within such frames of analysis, any notion of the ascent of selfhood is but idle teleological myth, a humanist hagiography.
  3. (countable) Away of thinking (associated with agroup,nation orregion).
    Traditional easternthought differs markedly from that of the west.
  4. (uncountable, now dialectal)Anxiety,distress.
  5. (uncountable) The carefulconsideration of multiple factors;deliberation.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:consideration
    After muchthought, I have decided to stay.
  6. A very small amount, distance, etc.; awhit orjot.
    • 1902, John Buchan,The Outgoing of the Tide:
      'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he. 'It's athought out of your way, but it's a comfortable bit.'

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Translations

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representation created in the mind
process
way of thinking
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Verb

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thought

  1. simplepast andpastparticiple ofthink
    Hi! Ithought I’dcome over and introduce myself. My name’s Chema.
    I'd previously beenthought to be a thorough fool.

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishþōht, fromProto-West Germanic*þą̄ht, fromProto-Germanic*þanhtaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /θɔu̯xt/,/θɔxt/

Noun

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thought (pluralthoughtes)

  1. product ofmental activity

Descendants

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