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Verb	1.	think about - have on one's mind, think about actively; "I'm thinking about my friends abroad"; "She always thinks about her children first" cerebrate, cogitate, think - 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" mind - be concerned with or about something or somebody look at, deal, consider, take - take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case"
	2.	think about - take into consideration, have in view; "He entertained the notion of moving to South America" flirt with, toy with, entertain, think of contemplate - consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"

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verbthink about

1. To think or think about carefully and at length:

chew on (or over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think out, think over, think through, turn over, weigh.

Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain.

2. To use the powers of the mind, as in conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and making judgments:

cerebrate, cogitate, deliberate, ratiocinate, reflect, speculate.

Idioms: put on one's thinking cap, use one's head.

3. To view in a certain way:

believe, feel, hold, sense.

4. To regard in an appraising way:

believe, repute, suppose.

5. To have an opinion:

believe, consider, deem, hold, opine.

Informal: figure, judge.

Idiom: be of the opinion.

6. To renew an image or thought in the mind:

bethink, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce, retain, revive.

Idiom: bring to mind.

7. To form mental images of:

conceive, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, image, imagine, picture, see, vision, visualize.

Informal: feature.

phrasal verb
think about

To care enough to keep (someone) in mind:

remember, think of.

phrasal verb
think of

1. To receive (an idea) and take it into consideration:

consider, entertain, hear of.

2. To care enough to keep (someone) in mind:

remember, think about.

phrasal verb
think out

To think or think about carefully and at length:

chew on (or over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think over, think through, turn over, weigh.

Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain.

phrasal verb
think over

To think or think about carefully and at length:

chew on (or over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think out, think through, turn over, weigh.

Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain.

phrasal verb
think through

To think or think about carefully and at length:

chew on (or over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think out, think over, turn over, weigh.

Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain.

phrasal verb
think up

To use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving:

concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, fabricate, formulate, hatch, invent, make up.

Informal: cook up.

Idiom: come up with.

Translations

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(= reflect on) idea, suggestion → nachdenken über (+acc); OK, I’ll think about it → okay, ich überlege es mir; what are you thinking about? → woran denken Sie gerade?; it’s worth thinking about → das ist überlegenswert, das wäre zu überlegen; to think twice about something → sich (dat) → etw zweimal überlegen; that’ll give him something to think about → das wird ihm zu denken geben

(in progressive tenses: = half intend to) → daran denken, vorhaben; I was thinking about coming to see you → ich habe vorgehabt or daran gedacht, Sie zu besuchen; we’re thinking about a holiday in Spain → wir denken daran, in Spanien Urlaub zu machen

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References in classic literature

If some girls should behave like that I shouldn't make any account of it; but this one is so refined, and looks as if she might be so interesting if I once got to know her, that I think about it a good deal.

View in context

She felt that she could not understand them however much she might think about them.

View in context

"I'm not going to think about it at all until I know whether I can go or not," said Anne resolutely.

View in context

Now, though he did not intend to think about him, memories of him constantly drifted into his mind.

View in context

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Engaging young children in thinking routines

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But now there's a lot more stuff that I'm involved in so I have to think about things differently.

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And when I was working in Venice in 2003 with Molly Nesbit and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, I actually approached my friend the artist Lincoln Tobier to think about it in relationship to our project "Utopia Station." Later on, Tom Eccles approached me about the idea of doing something for the Public Art Fund, and I was still in a "Utopia Station" mode and suggested this to him.

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Various people are trying to think about whether you could build a regulatory agency, a kind of hyped-up FDA that dealt with more than just safety issues and dealt with some of the broader issues.

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In a review of Performing the Faith, Terry Tilley asks, "How are we to think about structures and officers of the churches?

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Should we think about changing the structure of our reinsurance program over the course of the underwriting cycle?

The power of point of view: truly innovative ideas consist of thinking about familiar things in unfamiliar ways, but how can one distinguish really good ideas from those that are mere gimmicks?