think

/θɪŋk/

意味: 考える

例文: Lena likes to think before speaking.
　　  レナは話す前に考えるのが好きだ。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: think about(について考える), think of(を思いつく), think over(を熟考する)

定義: 何かを頭の中で考えること。意見やアイデアを持つこと。何かを理解しようとすること。

thinkは約800語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an instance of deliberate thinking
Verb: judge or regard; look upon; judge
Verb: expect, believe, or suppose
Verb: use or exercise the mind or one’s power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
Verb: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
Verb: imagine or visualize
Verb: focus one’s attention on a certain state
Verb: have in mind as a purpose
Verb: decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
Verb: ponder; reflect on, or reason about
Verb: dispose the mind in a certain way
Verb: have or formulate in the mind
Verb: be capable of conscious thought
Verb: bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

I’m thinking about switching jobs.（転職を考えている）
Think before you click.（クリックする前によく考えなさい）
Do you think it’ll rain?（雨が降ると思う？）

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: I need to give it a good think
Verb: I think he is very smart
Verb: I believe her to be very smart
Verb: I think that he is her boyfriend
Verb: The racist conceives such people to be inferior
Verb: I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel
Verb: I thought to find her in a bad state
Verb: he didn’t think to find her in the kitchen
Verb: I guess she is angry at me for standing her up
Verb: I’ve been thinking all day and getting nowhere
Verb: I can’t remember saying any such thing
Verb: I can’t think what her last name was
Verb: can you remember her phone number?
Verb: Do you remember that he once loved you?
Verb: call up memories
Verb: Just think–you could be rich one day!
Verb: Think what a scene it must have been!
Verb: Think big
Verb: think thin
Verb: I mean no harm
Verb: I only meant to help you
Verb: She didn’t think to harm me
Verb: We thought to return early that night
Verb: Can you think what to do next?
Verb: Think the matter through
Verb: Think how hard life in Russia must be these days
Verb: Do you really think so?
Verb: think good thoughts
Verb: Man is the only creature that thinks
Verb: She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): believe, call back, call up, cerebrate, cogitate, conceive, consider, guess, imagine, intend, mean, opine, recall, reckon, recollect, remember, retrieve, suppose, think

Antonyms(反意語): forget

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, concentrate, deliberation, evaluate, expect, imagine, think

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, accept, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, approve, archaize, arterialize, ash, assign, assimilate, associate, assume, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, believe, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, brainstorm, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, calcify, calculate, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, chew over, choose, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, concentrate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, declare, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, disapprove, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dream, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, envision, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaluate, evaporate, even, excite, expect, extend, exteriorize, fail, fantasize, fantasy, fatten, feel, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flocculate, freeze, frenchify, full, gelatinize, give, glamorize, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, hold, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, impute, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, laicize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, liquefy, listen, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, measure, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, pass, patent, personalize, philosophize, piggyback, plan, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, port, prefigure, prejudge, professionalize, proof, prostrate, purify, put, puzzle over, radicalize, rarefy, rate, rationalize, reappraise, reason, recall, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, reject, relax, remodel, restore, rethink, review, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, see, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shorten, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, speculate, spice, spike, sputter, stabilize, stain, stand, steep, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, study, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, test, thicken, think, think about, think of, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, worsen, zoom in

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): aim, associate, brainstorm, chew over, concentrate, design, evaluate, feel, give, hold, know, philosophize, plan, puzzle over, rationalize, reason, recognize, rethink, review, see, study, suspect, think, think about, think of

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: cerebration, cogitation, cogitative, consideration, guess, guesser, intent, intention, opinion, recall, recollection, recollective, remembering, remembrance, retrieval, supposal, supposition, think, thinker, thinking, thought

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, stative verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検5級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: