(v. t.) To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
(v. t.) To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
(v. t.) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
(v. t.) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.
(v. t.) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.
(v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.
(v. t.) To presume; to venture.
(v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.
(v. t.) To plan or design; to plot; to compass.
(v. t.) To believe; to consider; to esteem.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(3) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(4) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
(5) I think he had been saying all season that with three or four games to go he will tell us where we are.
(6) Well I think [that’s] because we’ve made changes in the game,” said Goodell.
(7) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
(8) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
(9) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(10) That's, in fact, just what Reed Brody was thinking.
(11) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
(12) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(13) This new way of thinking is reflected in the 1992 AAMR definition of what mental retardation is (Luckasson et al., 1992).
(14) Thinking I had the dreaded Norovirus, I rushed home.
(15) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
(16) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(17) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
(18) The prime minister’s spokeswoman said: “We think this can be done in line with EU and international law and it is important it is introduced and set up in the right way.
(19) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(20) A lower than normal percentage of REM sleep in these patients was consistent with their retarded intellectual development, which supports current thinking that REM sleep may be a sensitive index of brain function integrity.
Wis
Definition:
(adv.) Certainly; really; indeed.
(v. t.) To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the Marshfield Clinic, however, a group practice in Marshfield, Wis., physicians did not know the source of payment for the vast majority of their patients (79.3 percent).
(2) Forested areas adjacent to Milwaukee, Wis., and Chicago, Ill., were investigated for rodents and ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease.
(3) Because of our slightly younger average age and city location, we were supposedly one of the "new wave" WIs that had started springing up in the years before – groups that rejected crochet and did more modern activities, often with more than a tinge of irony.
(4) Eimeria tenella strain Wis-F is known to develop in chickens with a significantly shortened prepatent period and its pathogenicity is virtually completely attenuated.
(5) The inhibitory effect of L-lysine on penicillin biosynthesis by Penicillium chrysogenum has been compared in a low-producing strain (Wis. 54-1255) and a high-producing strain (ASP-78).
(6) The first-round demonstration at Marshfield, Wis, was operational for 28 months.
(7) The immunizing abilities of the attenuated line and its parent were compared by priming groups of chickens with numbers of oocysts of WisF96 or Wis, designed to produce infections of equal magnitude in terms of oocysts production (standard inocula), and then challenging with oocysts of Wis.
(8) We prospectively studied all transfers from community hospitals to the Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center in Milwaukee (Wis) between May 28, 1986, and January 1, 1987.
(9) This family of retroelements (termed WIS-2) occurs in the genomes of barley, wheat, rye, oats, and Aegilops species.
(10) There are around 6,600 WIs, with 520 new groups forming in the last four years alone – many of which have been in cities (until relatively recently, the WI was restricted to rural communities).
(11) The life-cycle of a precocious and attenuated line (WisF96) of Eimeria tenella, derived from the Wisconsin (Wis) strain, contained only the first of the three generations of schizogony undergone by the parent strain.
(12) Few sporozoites from the WIS strain developed into schizonts, but numerous sporozoites from the FS139 strain developed into normal first and second generation schizonts.
(13) A total of 147 preterm pregnant women at Orlando Regional Medical Center were screened for group B streptococci by using Lim Group B Strep Broth (GIBCO Laboratories, Madison, Wis.) and the Phadebact Strep B Test (Pharmacia Diagnostics, Piscataway, N.J.).
(14) Subacute hematomas had peripheral hyperintensity on T1-WIs and then on T2-WIs.
(15) The WARF Institute, Inc. (Madison, Wis) has been preparing most of the crude plant extracts for antitumor screening for the past 14 years.
(16) The Wis-F-96 strain did not adequately immunize chickens in these experiments.
(17) Despite antibiotic therapy, four developed WIs caused by these organisms.
(18) This concept was examined in cultured, aortic VSMCs (passages 6-10) from SHR, Wistar-Kyoto (WKY), and American Wistar (Wis) rats.
(19) Bond recalls Baroness Kennedy QC speaking at the Women of the World festival in 2012 and remembering how instrumental WIs had been in getting recognition of rape within marriage on to the political agenda.
(20) Clones of P. chrysogenum Wis 54-1255 transformed with the ips gene showed a five-fold higher isopenicillin N synthase activity than the untransformed cultures.