thought (original) (raw)
past simple and past participle of think
give it thought Ask me again tomorrow. I'll have to give it some thought.
give thought to She doesn't give any thought to her appearance.
spare a thought for Spare a thought for (= think about) all those without shelter on a cold night like this.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- ideaI've got an idea - why don't we ask John for help?
- planThe plan is to hire a car when we get there.
- thoughtHave you had any thoughts on presents for your mother?
- suggestionHave you got any suggestions for improvements?
- brainwaveUK I wasn't sure what to do and then I had brainwave - I could ask Anna for help.
- brainstormUS She was stuck until she had a brainstorm and the solution came to her.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- suggestionMay I make a suggestion? Keep your receipts for tax reimbursement.
- proposalThe proposal for a new stadium has been rejected.
- propositionHe wrote to me with a very interesting business proposition.
- thoughtI've had a thought about what we might do this summer.
- ideaRebecca has a few ideas about how we could improve things.
- motionThere is a motion before the assembly to adjourn the meeting.
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- The thought suddenly flashed through my mind that she didn't want to be here.
- To be honest, the thought of jumping out of a moving plane makes my hair stand on end.
- My thoughts flow more easily if I work on a word processor.
- He took a minute or two to compose his thoughts before he replied.
- The thought of kissing him made me go weak at the knees.
Idioms
(Definition of thought from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
thought | American Dictionary
thought (THINK)
past simple and past participle of think
thought noun [C/U] (THINKING)
[ C ] Do you have any thoughts on what we should do now?
[ C ] It’s just a thought, but since it’s such a beautiful day, why don’t we go for a drive?
(Definition of thought from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of thought
thought
However, there is a sharp distinction between the mechanisms posited by repression and the processes thought to underlie ordinary forgetting.
He attempted to create architecture directly out of what he called 'nature's organic structural thoughts'.
This common-sense misconception then finds its way into philosophical thought.
These spellings are thought to typify the phonetic stage.
Indeed, representations in the brain are not thought by visual neuroscientists to be point-by-point picture-like representations.
But this doesn't necessarily mean that the locus of thought is natural language representations (words, syntax, phonology).
This includes the way that aspects of health care are thought about and represented.
What if past thought were not always surpassed thought?
Traditionally, lexical contexts and sentential contexts were thought to play very different roles in word recognition, each applying at a separate stage.
If they thought both meanings were synonymous, then they were told to choose the meaning that would be the most likely used for the sentence.
Luminance gradients are usually thought to provide cues about the interactions of light and surfaces that model the volume of the resulting object.
There are and always will be "schools of thought" that favor one or more interpretive themes over competitors.
The behavioral result is that activation in this pathway is thought to facilitate top-down goal-oriented behavior and thereby simultaneously suppress alternative nongoal-oriented behaviors.
To speculate, the empirical findings of this article may be thought to provide a 'revisionist' view of the developmental state.
Unlike a typical authoritative collection of papers which is common in more traditional areas of economics, this reader-friendly collection provides much food for thought.
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Collocations with thought
These are words often used in combination with thought.
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This practising man's antipathy towards abstract thought is important.
The matter is one which is, of course, engaging our anxious thought.
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