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单词 thinker
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thinkern.

Brit. /ˈθɪŋkə/, U.S. /ˈθɪŋkər/
Forms: see think v.2 and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: think v.2, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < think v.2 + -er suffix1.
1. One who thinks.
a. gen. A person engaged in thinking; a being having the power to think. Also: a person who thinks out or devises something.
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > one who thinks
thinker1435
minder1584
thought-catcher1584
raisonneur1814
cogitator1834
thought-maker1841
noodler1955
maître à penser1959
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 90 To þame sothely þat has þer desyre bowyd to lufe of þis warldly creaturis, hevy it is..þof mynde of hym be swettyst & to þinkars meruelusly it waxys sweytt.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 490 Thenkare, cogitator, pensator.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xii. 73 Noysome onely vnto the thynker.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 761 The Democriticks and Epicureans did indeed, suppose, all humane Cogitations to be Caused..by the Incursion of Corporeal Atoms upon the Thinker.
1730 T. Cibber Patie & Peggy 14 For all that we can say or do 'Gainst Love, no Thinker heeds us.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 167 Happy they, who in some such rural retirement, can..devote the greater portion of their time to sacred knowledge, Heavenly piety, and angelick goodness; which cannot be dissolved when the thinker goes.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 208 He stands forth..as the thinker, the inventor, the actor of the scene.
1879 J. Cook Lect. Conscience vi The universe exhibits thought. There cannot be thought without a thinker.
1912 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 9 208 What in the behavior of the thinker who doesn't behave is his thought?
1950 Times 11 Feb. 5/3 Later ages..object that the reality of the thought does not prove the existence of a thinker.
1991 Mind 100 123 When a thinker perceives an object, is he able to think of it in a perceptual-demonstrative way only because his perceptual experience correctly locates the object?
b. With modifying adjective: a person who thinks in the way expressed by the adjective; with commendatory words (e.g. able, deep, original) often practically coinciding with sense 1c.
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c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross Middle Eng. Serm. (1940) 163 (MED) Where..was euer a synnefullere thynker þan was Seynt Poule?
1584 J. Rainolds & J. Hart Summe of Conf. 31 You haue beene an Idolater,..a false witnesse, an euill thinker, and what not.
a1622 N. Byfield Comm. 2nd Chapter of 1st Epist. St. Peter (1623) 620 The Magistrate can onely punish euill doers, that is, such as offend in word or deed: euill thinkers they cannot meddle withall.
c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding §4 You may as well hope to make a good..Musician..by a Lecture..in the Arts of Musick..as a coherent Thinker, or strict Reasoner, by a Set of Rules.
a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) II. 114 He was able..to delude a superficial Thinker with his new Terms and Reasonings.
1764 S. Johnson Let. 20 Sept. (1876) xii. 295 Such loose thinkers as Mayhew can scarcely be accounted better Christians than the Turks.
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. i. 227 Lloyd..was an original thinker, rather than the collector of the opinions of others.
1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. ii. 44 Two of the ablest thinkers whom America has yet produced.
1903 Church Times 11 Dec. 749/3 Mr. Spencer showed another weakness of the abstract Thinker.
1963 L. M. Packer C. Rossetti iv. 64 Scott considered himself profound, a deep thinker, and something of a genius; moreover, he successfully imposed this opinion of himself upon others.
1990 J. Sutherland Mrs Humphry Ward v. 46 Humphry was not by nature an original thinker and his mind had been formed by two strong personalities.
c. spec. A person who has special or well-trained powers of thought, esp. abstract thought; a person with a skilled or powerful mind. Also: a person devoted to thinking, as distinguished from action or practical affairs.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosopher > [noun]
philosopher?1316
philosophe1340
divider1588
philosophist1589
philosophizer1676
thinker1830
philosopherling1833
phantasmagorist1862
philosopher's philosopher1879
maître à penser1959
1737 A. Hill Tears of Muses 35 Form'd for a Lover, for a Thinker taught; Bloodless reflective Eminence, He sought.
1788 M. Wollstonecraft Mary xxvi. 151 It is very difficult to discipline the mind of a thinker, or reconcile him to the weakness, the inconsistency of his understanding.
1830 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. vi. 128 Neither is his [sc. Jeffrey's] arguing like that of a thinker, but of the advocate.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 20 English thinkers aspired to know, or dared to doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and to believe.
1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 30 Not one of them makes the slightest pretension to be a scholar or a thinker.
1934 M. McLuhan Let. 10 Nov. (1987) 39 As for that fusty old rationalist [Herbert] Spencer—don't puzzle yourself about him. As a philosopher and thinker he is less than nothing.
1963 D. MacDonald Against Amer. Grain 3 Thinkers like H. G. Wells, Stuart Chase and Max Lerner come under the head of Midcult rather than Masscult.
1990 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 15 Apr. 14/6 She is..one of the new breed of emerging young thinkers that people of 50 or so regard as kids.
d. Theatre slang. An actor who plays ‘thinking parts’ (see thinking part n. at thinking n. Compounds 2). Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part
ruffy1502
chorus1561
prologuer1570
prologue1579
turquet1625
woman actor1633
underpart1679
epilogist1716
prologist1716
epiloguizer1748
old man1762
prologuizer1762
buffo1764
extrac1777
jeune premier1817
primo buffo1826
character actor1841
utility man1849
deuteragonist1855
character comedian1857
bit playera1859
utility actor1860
serio-comic1866
juvenile lead1870
serio-comique1870
heavy1880
utility1885
thinker1886
onnagata1889
serio1889
juvenile1890
tritagonist1890
oyama1925
juve1935
1886 Stage Gossip 70 The gentlemen who play the most subordinate parts are..called ‘thinkers’ on account of their having little or nothing to say and lots of time wherein to think.
2. A person's mind, the brain as the organ of thought. humorous.
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the mind > [noun]
hearteOE
moodeOE
wita1000
intention1340
mindc1384
intentc1386
ingeny1477
thinker1835
box1908
the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun]
i-witc888
anyitOE
witOE
thoughtOE
inwitc1305
intention1340
mindc1384
understandingc1384
intentc1386
intelligencec1390
intellecta1398
minda1398
understanda1400
intellectionc1449
ingeny1477
intellectivec1484
mind-sight1587
intellectual1598
notion1604
intelligency1663
mental1676
nous1678
grasp1683
thinker1835
Geist1871
noesis1881
1835 A. F. Tytler Mary & Florence i. 6 What should we do about our thinkers? would one thinker do for two Tongues?
1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 279 ‘If God did not intend I should think, why did He give me a “thinker”?’ Probably a more childish inquiry was never made by a full-grown man.
1909 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. IV. 231 I'm not Disposed to grapple with so great a matter. 'Twould tie my thinker in a double knot And drive me staring mad as any hatter.
1976 D. Jongeward & D. Scott Women as Winners ii. 32 She let her feelings govern her actions, without putting her thinker in gear.
1999 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 7 Mar. f2 I have been in a sexless marriage for more than 14 years, and I definitely do not have a ‘clinker in my thinker’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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