Thinks vs Believes - What's the difference?
thinks | believes |
(think)
* 1947 , Eric Frank Russell, Astounding Science Fiction , September 1947, "Hobbyist"
(believe)
(label) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 :
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
(label) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
As verbs the difference between thinks and believes
is that thinks is third-person singular of think while believes is third-person singular of believe.As a noun thinks
is plural of lang=en.thinks
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(head)- Therefore, while the tail tubes cooled off with their usual creaking contractions, he squatted in the control seat, stared through the dome with eyes made unseeing by deep preoccupation, and performed a few thinks.
believes
English
Verb
(head)believe
English
Alternative forms
* beleeve (obsolete)Verb
(believ)- (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.)
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us
Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}
