thinking
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- noun
- /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/
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- We can help students think mathematically and apply such thinking to the world around them.
- critical thinking
- thinking skills
- creative thinking
What's, what's your process of one, thinking and two, doing it right?
- What's, what's your process of one, thinking and two, doing it right?
- This is all being presented as picture thinking or representation.
Examples
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Critical and creative thinking are essential skills in today's job market.
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This guy has a lot of thinking to do.
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But that sort of thinking is coming back.
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Help us hear their thinking with an open mind.
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The time for thinking had all run out.
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What if we focused on critical and creative thinking in the assessment process?
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Interest in incorporating creativity and design thinking into professional education is growing.
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Schools need to promote higher-order thinking in a way with which students can identify.
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Practiced throughout nursing school, it becomes so ingrained in our thinking that we use it automatically.
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Iraq was always more fundamental in al-Qaeda's thinking than was widely understood.
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Synonyms
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1.4
The process of thinking or an idea that comes from thinking
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3.9
A way of thinking in a clear, logical order to form a conclusion
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2.9
Careful thought or discussion before making a decision
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3.7
Careful thought before making a decision
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3.7
Mental steps used to consider and solve a problem
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4.8
Thinking about something very carefully for a long time
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A time when someone thinks quietly and deeply about something
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3.9
A long, deep period of thinking about serious ideas
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A process of thinking carefully about something
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Thinking carefully to understand or decide about something
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Careful, deep thinking about something before deciding
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A careful, serious kind of thinking about something
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Careful thinking that helps solve a problem
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Thinking hard to solve problems and come up with new ideas
Careful deep thinking to solve a problem or create a new idea
Idioms
Compounds
- Informal
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Believing something you want will happen even though it is unlikely
- Specialized
A way of using facts and reason to reach a single correct answer
A way of looking at a problem by breaking it into smaller parts to see how they work together
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word thinking comes from the old English word think, which meant 'to consider' or 'to have an idea', and the ending -ing turns it into the act or process. So thinking is the act of using your mind to consider or reason about something.