(v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body.
(v.) The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief.
(v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.
(v.) Courage; spirit.
(v.) Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.
(n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.
(n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business.
(n.) To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.
(n.) To have in mind; to purpose.
(n.) To put in mind; to remind.
(v. i.) To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(2) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(5) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(6) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(7) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(8) This is a rare diagnosis but it should still be kept in mind, particularly in the immigrant population of the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia and particularly of the Saudis from the southern provinces.
(9) The patients must be examined with these disorders in mind and when any drug related illness is found, it must be treated immediately.
(10) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
(11) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(12) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
(13) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
(14) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(15) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(16) While mindful of the potential difficulties which attend its introduction into the treatment situation there is an attempt to balance this position through a consideration of the appropriate conditions and modes of operation under which a humor-enriched approach may be efficacious.
(17) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(18) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(19) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(20) That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling.
Subconscious
Definition:
(a.) Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul.
(a.) Partially conscious; feebly conscious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having started, as did Freud, from psychical traumatism P. Janet is not interested in subconscious but particularly studies the psychological deficiencies which traumatism causes or brings to the foreground.
(2) But this was the time of Freud and Jung, and I certainly think the sea represents the subconscious."
(3) Far from being disgusted with her physicality, Ruskin – a rigorous Christian and idealist – felt anxious and subconsciously betrayed by the realisation that his love for Effie was a one-sided affair.
(4) Our experience indicated that: It is possible to increase and enrich dream activity in quantity and in substance in the course of the treatment; This approach can affect all of the components of the personality which have been in regression after injury; Dream analysis does not require complex cognitive abilities and surmounts the special difficulty these patients have in using language and abstract concepts; It is possible to bring to the surface inner and subconscious contents residing in the patient that were ignored before; and The residual content of the premorbid personality is also expressed, thus facilitating the patient's inner contact between his former identity and his new one.
(5) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(6) Although it is an intrinsic part of all medical practice forensic medicine often is either unrecognized as such or is consciously or subconsciously evaded.
(7) It prevents him from attending to the slight promptings of his subconscious, and when these emotions and intuitions are not amplified by being brought into focus, he loses a sense of himself.
(8) Thirdly, we have demonstrated a subconscious voluntary control mechanism operating in our patient.
(9) It was shown that the more hostility words subjects processed either consciously or subconsciously, the more extreme and negative ratings they yielded.
(10) The messy cupboards and cluttered shelves were like an actual subconscious I could purge of its guilt and pain.
(11) The so-called cap has now itself become a dangerous lure; if at some level of your subconscious you think that is the maximum you will ever have to pay, you are in for a horrible shock.
(12) The rise of highly gendered toys is a result of capitalism, but it also suggests a deep, subconscious unease with the advances of the past few decades.
(13) Subconsciously their body tells them to be careful and they don’t even notice.
(14) A subconscious acknowledgement perhaps of the inevitable difference in relationship between birth siblings and foster siblings.
(15) I've seen them given and not given for similar incidents ... personally, I think if your arm is raised, then it's a handball - I would contend that either consciously or subconsciously, you're raising it to spread yourself in an attempt to block the ball.
(16) There were a bunch of Sierra Leoneans and they also had Ebola, but they were outside the tent, and I was saying to the nurse: ‘Treat them, treat them.’ I suppose subconsciously I must have had a degree of guilt, like why I got the best of care, world-class care, and they didn’t.” Cafferkey was readmitted to the Royal Free in February but was discharged within five days as the complication she had developed did not become serious.
(17) Whether this is an accidental or subconscious anomaly on the part of Waitrose, it is impossible to know.
(18) Experience in counseling confirms the contention of several authors that some out-of-wedlock pregnancies stem from subconscious reasons.
(19) Plagiarism feuds Johnny Cash v Gordon Jenkins: Cash was forced to pay composer Gordon Jenkins $75,000 for using lyrics and melody from Jenkins’ 1953 track Crescent City Blues as the basis for his own 1955 song, Folsom Prison Blues Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams v Marvin Gaye: a jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s family $7.4m in 2015 after he ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had copied their father’s music to create their hit Blurred Lines George Harrison v Ronnie Mack: George Harrison was found guilty of “subconscious plagiarism” of Ronnie Mack’s He’s So Fine for his song My Sweet Lord.
(20) These form the basis for an often subconscious process of selecting the most important pieces of information to help in decision making.