Verb

(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.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

(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= 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.”}}

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.

Verb

think' (''obsolete except in archaic'' ' methinks )

(label) To seem, to appear.

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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

Verb

(hop)

To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

* , chapter=10

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

(obsolete) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in .

* Bible, Psalms cxix. 81

I hope in thy word.

* Bible, Psalms xlii. 11

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.