line of thought
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4.3
- noun
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línea de pensamiento
- There are two problems, or limits, for Turkey in this line of thought.
- follow his line of thought
- same line of thought
- two lines of thought
I will be pursuing a line of thought that will bring tears to my eyes.
- I will be pursuing a line of thought that will bring tears to my eyes.
- We are not from this line of thought.
- Instead, he goes on and he suggests another line of thinking.
- And his his work, you know, really stimulated that line of thinking.
- I mean, it's, it's an interesting line of thought.
- I know many, many survivors run into this and narcissistic people have a real advantage with this line of thinking.
- There's nothing that's going to steer you to one line of thought or to another, or to follow this guy or to not follow that guy.
- The permutations of different streams of thought and finding people who have similar interests along those lines of thought are in the billions.
- Well, look, so that's a whole dangerous, very dangerous line of thought.
- And by using this line of thinking about it, which he suggests is actually coming from considering the divine substance, he seems to have have attained that.
- However, these line of thought is present there and we hear that.
Examples
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I don't understand the 'balanced' line of thought going on in these discussions.
Blog text (22) -
The general line of thought, however, provokes a fresh line of inquiry.
Academic text (2005) -
I mean, my line of thought is, hey, the situation is what it is.
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You might not like my line of thought
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Well, let's follow this line of thought a little bit more.
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I had originally agreed with the line of thought that decades of weather equals climate.
Blog text (15) -
That's a very mature line of thought.
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For the first time in weeks, that line of thought did not bring a crippling surge of panic.
Fiction book (1990) -
Ricky is not the smoothest guy around, and his line of thought is all too evident.
Fiction book (1992) -
Her line of thought is always interesting and challenges conventional wisdom.
Synonyms
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1.5
A personal opinion or belief about something
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4.1
A way of thinking shaped by your beliefs or experiences
897
6.3
A way of thinking used to make an argument
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5.2
A set of ideas and opinions shared by people at the same time
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3.9
A shared set of ideas about a subject held by a group
17
3.6
A set of ideas that follow each other in your mind
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4.2
A set of connected reasons that lead to a conclusion
The main idea that connects the points someone makes
How Coherent
5
3.4
1
3.7
8
4.3
- Informal
17
3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a particular way of thinking' is directly and transparently built from 'line' (a course or series) + 'of' (genitive link) + 'thought' (thinking), so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer a course or strand of thinking. The figurative use of 'line' to mean a course of reasoning is common cross-linguistically and follows regular composition patterns rather than being an idiosyncratic idiom.
Etymology
Line of thought pictures thinking as a straight path or thread, with a line that links one thought to the next. So the phrase means 'a particular way of thinking' because it describes a connected path of ideas you can follow or lose.