Think vs Gather - What's the difference?
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(label) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought ! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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, title= (label) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
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To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of'''; infrequently, by '''on ).
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(label) To be of the opinion (that).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
(label) To guess; to reckon.
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(label) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
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, title= To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
*Sir (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe)
*:The cupbearer shrugged up his shoulders in displeasure. "I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}
To presume; to venture.
*(Bible), (w) iii. 9
*:Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father.
An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
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(label) To seem, to appear.
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To collect; normally separate things.
# Especially, to harvest food.
# To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
# To congregate, or assemble.
#* Tennyson
# To grow gradually larger by accretion.
#* Francis Bacon
To bring parts of a whole closer.
# (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
# (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
# (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
# (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To gain; to win.
* Dryden
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
(glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
As verbs the difference between think and gather
is that think is (label) to ponder, to go over in one's head or think can be (label) to seem, to appear while gather is to collect; normally separate things.As nouns the difference between think and gather
is that think is an act of thinking; consideration (of something) while gather is a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.think
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Alternative forms
* thinck (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from (etyl) .Verb
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Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
Synonyms
* (sense, communicate to oneself in one's mind) cogitate, ponder, reflect, ruminate; see also * opine; see also * guess (US), imagine, reckon, suppose * consider, deem, find, judge, regard; see alsoDerived terms
* rethink * think about * thinker * thinko * think of * think on one's feet * think out * think over * think piece * think the world of * think twice * think up * think with one's little head * unthinkableNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* badthink * doublethink * goodthink * groupthink * have another think coming * rethink (noun, as in "have a rethink")Etymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
think' (''obsolete except in archaic'' ' methinks )- And whanne syr launcelot sawe he myghte not ryde vp in to the montayne / he there alyghte vnder an Appel tree // And then he leid hym doune to slepe / And thenne hym thoughte there came an old man afore hym / the whiche sayd A launcelot of euylle feythe and poure byleue / wherfor is thy wille tourned soo lyghtely toward thy dedely synne
gather
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Verb
(en verb)- I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
- She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
- We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
- Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
- People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
- Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.
- Their snowball did not gather as it went.
- She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
- A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
- Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
- If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
- to gather the slack of a rope
- From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
- I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
- Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
- He gathers ground upon her in the chase.