Pronunciation Noun
mind (plural minds)
- The ability for rational thought.
- 1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, Diuided into Foure Parts. [...], Imprinted at London: [By H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, OCLC 837515946 ↗; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, Diuided into Foure Parts. [...] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], OCLC 706027473 ↗, page 291 ↗:#*
- And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to forstand#English|foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; {{...}
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0029 ↗:- “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
- The ability to remember things.
- My mind just went blank.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- He was one of history’s greatest minds.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- She had a mind to go to Paris.
- I have half a mind to do it myself.
- I am of a mind to listen.
- A healthy mental state.
- I, __ being of sound mind and body, do hereby […]
- You are losing your mind.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The mind is a process of the brain.
- 1699, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, Heads designed for an essay on conversations ↗
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- 1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, p.19:
- The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind
- (ability for rational thought) brain(s), head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit; See also Thesaurus:intelligence
- (ability to be aware of things) awareness, consciousness, sentience; See also Thesaurus:awareness
- (ability to remember things) memory, recollection; See also Thesaurus:recollection
- (ability to focus the thoughts) attention, concentration, focus
- (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities) genius, intellectual, thinker; See also Thesaurus:genius
- (judgment, opinion, or view) judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view; See also Thesaurus:judgement
- (desire, inclination, or intention) desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood; See also Thesaurus:desire or Thesaurus:intention
- (healthy mental state) sanity; See also Thesaurus:sanity
- (process of): cognition, learning
- French: esprit, raison, intelligence
- German: Verstand, Geist, Sinn
- Italian: mente
- Portuguese: mente
- Russian: ум
- Spanish: mente
- German: Bewusstsein
- Portuguese: mente
- Russian: ум
- French: mémoire
- German: Gedächtnis, Gedanken
- Portuguese: memória
- Russian: па́мять
- French: concentration
- German: Aufmerksamkeit, Konzentration
- Portuguese: concentração
- Russian: сосредото́ченность
- Spanish: concentración
- German: Zurechnungsfähigkeit
- Portuguese: sanidade
- Russian: настрое́ние
- Spanish: cordura
- German: Wahrnehmung
- Russian: ра́зум
mind (minds, present participle minding; past and past participle minded)
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. [from 16th c.]
- I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
- Do you mind if I smoke?
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. [from 17th c.]
- Would you mind my bag for me?
- (chiefly, in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]
- Mind you don't knock that glass over.
- To be careful about. [from 18th c.]
- 2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, ISBN 9781848602120, page xv:
- Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
- 2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, ISBN 9781848602120, page xv:
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
- (now, rare except in phrases) To attend to, concern oneself with, heed, be mindful of. [from 15th c.]
- You should mind your own business.
- c. 1591, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I Scene i:
- My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
- bidding him be a good child, and mind his book
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, page 84:
- Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.
- (now, regional) To remember. [from 14th c.]
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26:
- The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26:
- (obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
- c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:
- I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- […] and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.
- (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.
- c. 1610-11, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act III, Scene 2:
- Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.
, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth - I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said.
, Roger L'Estrange, Fables, of Aesop, and other eminent mythologists. - This minds me of a cobbling colonel of famous memory.
- 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, "Of True and False Ideas"
- I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.
- He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
- (remember) See also Thesaurus:remember
- (dislike) See also Thesaurus:dislike
- (pay attention to) heed; See also Thesaurus:pay attention
- (look after) See also Thesaurus:care
- French: prendre garde
- German: aufpassen, beachten
- Portuguese: cuidar
- Russian: обраща́ть внима́ние
- Spanish: tomar en cuenta
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