mind
IPA: mˈaɪnd
noun
- The capability for rational thought.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- The ability to remember things.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- A healthy mental state.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
verb
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (now regional) To remember.
- (obsolete or dialectal) To remind; put one's mind on.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To be careful about.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
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Examples of "mind" in Sentences
- And, of course, a man _must_ sometimes change both his clothes and his mind -- his _mind_ at any rate.
- _Mental_ resistance can be met and overcome by _ideas_, by points introduced by _your_ mind into the _mind_ of the _other_ man.
- Science itself very likely establishes a presumption in favor of a governing mind, _but the deeper question is as to the character of that mind_.
- To meet the demand for a final and standard truth, a demand which realism meets with its doctrine of a being independent of any mind, this philosophy defines a _standard mind_.
- Likewise if anything happens to a particular set of muscles, the reaction is instantly transmitted to its associated mind center through the "direct wire" nerves and brain center which particularly serve that part of the mind_.
- But the idea must be constantly in the mind of the mother that her boy needs to _see_ the spoken word at the very moment _when the idea that it represents is in his mind_, AS OFTEN as he would hear it if his hearing were perfect.
- What General Meade wrote in May, We must expect disaster so long as the armies are not under one master mind, 32 Lincoln knew perfectly well, and gladly would he have devolved the military conduct of affairs on one man could he have found that master mind for whom he made a painful quest during almost two years.
- The real and practical alliance between the physical and the psychic -- between body and mind -- is better realized; as for instance: You may be seized with _an idea_, or a passion, and it disturbs your _health of body_; you may take indigestible food, or suffer injury or fatigue, and it disturbs your _health of mind_.
- Columbus discovered America some four hundred years ago, that your house is of a white color, that it rained a week ago today, exists as a fact regardless of whether your minds think of these things at all, yet the truth remains as before: for the particular mind which remembers these things, _the facts did not exist while they were out of the mind_.
- The attraction of mechanical power had already wrenched the American mind into a crab-like process which Roosevelt was making heroic efforts to restore to even action, and he had every right to active support and sympathy from all the world, especially from the Trusts themselves so far as they were human; but the doubt persisted whether the force that educated was really man or nature, mind or motion.
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