Preponderant vs Thought - What's the difference?
preponderant | thought |
; outweighing; overbalancing.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
, title= Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts , and I by others not less disturbing.}}
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, title= (uncountable) The process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking.
* (Paul Fix)
A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
(think)
As an adjective preponderant
is preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing.As a noun thought is
form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.As a verb thought is
past tense of think.preponderant
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
References
*thought
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(wikipedia thought) (en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts .}}
- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.