n. an instance of deliberate thinking; "I need to give it a good think"

n. a great amount or extent; "they did much for humanity"

v. be capable of conscious thought; "Man is the only creature that thinks"

v. focus one's attention on a certain state; "Think big"; "think thin"

v. imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!"

v. judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

v. use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"

v. have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"

v. expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

v. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"

adv. degree adverb used before a noun phrase: "Much the same thing happened every time"

adv. intensifier, as is "much better"

adv. "He was much annoyed"

adv. "I like her well"

adv. in music: "allegro molto"

adv. "We enjoyed ourselves very much"; "This would help a great deal"

adj. with mass nouns; "much traffic"

adj. (used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent: "not much rain"; "much affection"; "much grain is in storage"

n. the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance"

n. abundance, copiousness

v. have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"

v. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

v. keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible"

v. have a wish or desire to know something; "He wondered who had built this beautiful church"

v. believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"

v. take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late"

v. expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"

v. think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"

v. make up something artificial or untrue

v. place in doubt or express doubtful speculation; "I wonder whether this was the right thing to do"; "she wondered whether it would snow tonight"

v. denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"

v. mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"

v. intend with some possibility of fulfilment; "I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening"

v. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"

v. form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"

v. believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"

v. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something

v. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"

v. consider to be equal or the same; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives"

v. be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily"

v. recall the past; "The grandparents sat there, reminiscing all afternoon"

v. go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

v. keep in mind for attention or consideration; "Remember the Alamo"; "Remember to call your mother every day!"; "Think of the starving children in India!"

v. consider carefully and rationally; "Every detail has been thought out"

v. devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"

v. recapture the past; indulge in memories; "he remembered how he used to pick flowers"

adj. (informal) "big spender"

adj. a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number; "many temptations"; "the temptations are many"; "a good many"; "a great many"; "many directions"; "take as many apples as you like"; "too many clouds to see"; "never saw so many people"

adj. (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; "more land"; "more support"; "more rain fell"; "more than a gallon"

v. declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"

v. be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"

v. interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks"

adj. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"