thinking

[thinkĀ·ing]

Endowed with the capacity to reason

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Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.

Noun
the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Think

a.
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.

n.
The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.


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"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.

Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.

The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.

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Usage Examples

'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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Other Usage Examples

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

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