"thinking" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-thinking.ogg Forms: thinkings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ, -ɪŋ Etymology: From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think + -ing. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|thinking}} Middle English thinking, {{suffix|en|think|ing}} think + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} thinking (usually uncountable, plural thinkings)
  1. The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something. Tags: uncountable, usually
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  2. A thought. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (thinking, thought): մտածողություն (mtacoġutʻyun) (Armenian), мисъл (misǎl) [feminine] (Bulgarian), размишление (razmišlenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), myšlení [neuter] (Czech), přemýšlení [neuter] (Czech), ajattelu (Finnish), ajatteleminen (Finnish), miete (Finnish), mietintä (Finnish), pensamento [masculine] (Galician), opinión (Galician), Ansicht [feminine] (German), Denken [neuter] (German), सोचना (socnā) (Hindi), विचारना (vicārnā) (Hindi), चिंतन (cintan) [masculine] (Hindi), मनन (manan) [masculine] (Hindi), мислење (mislenje) [neuter] (Macedonian), विचार (vicār) [masculine] (Marathi), tenkning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tenking [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), мышление (myšlenije) [neuter] (Russian), चित्त (citta) [neuter] (Sanskrit), pensamiento [masculine] (Spanish), tanke (Swedish), తలచుట (talacuṭa) (Telugu), mem (Tocharian A), maim (Tocharian B)
    Sense id: en-thinking-en-noun-27MhYRKp Disambiguation of 'thinking, thought': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: critical thinking, lean thinking, wishful thinking Derived forms: convergent thinking, divergent thinking, group-thinking, smart thinking, thinking cap, thinking man's, thinking person's, thinking woman's, way of thinking
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-thinking.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ, -ɪŋ Etymology: From Middle English thenkinge, þinkynge, þenkynge, þenchinde, from Old English þenċende, from Proto-Germanic *þankijandz, present participle of *þankijaną (“to think”), equivalent to think + -ing. Cognate with Dutch denkend (“thinking”), German denkend (“thinking”), Swedish tänkande (“thinking”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|thenkinge}} Middle English thenkinge, {{inh|en|ang|þenċende}} Old English þenċende, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*þankijandz}} Proto-Germanic *þankijandz, {{suffix|en|think|ing}} think + -ing, {{cog|nl|denkend|t=thinking}} Dutch denkend (“thinking”), {{cog|de|denkend|t=thinking}} German denkend (“thinking”), {{cog|sv|tänkande|t=thinking}} Swedish tänkande (“thinking”) Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} thinking
  1. present participle and gerund of think Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: think
    Sense id: en-thinking-en-verb-kJ5QQ~NR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Thinking Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 6 79 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 19 9 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 6 82 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 5 87 Disambiguation of Thinking: 30 0 70 Related terms: big-sky thinking, blue-sky thinking, design thinking, entrained thinking, forward-thinking, free-thinking, good thinking, hard of thinking, lateral thinking, magical thinking, negativity thinking, new political thinking, new thinking, not bear thinking about, positive thinking, right-thinking, self-thinking, thinking-cap, thinking distance, thinking machine, thinking man's crumpet, to one's way of thinking, train of thinking, tree thinking, what was someone thinking
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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