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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
Terry Brooks

Meaning of "think up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THINK UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THINK UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Think up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES THINK UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of think up in the English dictionary

The definition of think up in the dictionary is to invent or devise.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THINK UP

think again
think better of
think less of
think little of
think more of
think much of
think nothing of
think out
think outside the box
think over
think tank
think the world of
think twice
think-tank
thinkable
thinkableness
thinkably
thinker
thinking
thinking cap

WORDS THAT END LIKE THINK UP

back up
break up
buck up
chalk up
clock up
cook up
crank up
fuck up
ink up
kick up
knock up
lock up
look up
pack up
rack up
rock up
speak up
talk up
tank up
work up

Synonyms and antonyms of think up in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «think up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THINK UP

Find out the translation of think up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of think up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «think up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

想起来
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pensar en
570 millions of speakers

English

think up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लगता है कि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التفكير في
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

придумать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acha -se
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উদ্ভাবন করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inventer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berfikir
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ausdenken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

考え出す
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

까지 생각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mikir munggah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghĩ ra
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிந்தியுங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विचार करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tasarlamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

escogitare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wymyślać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

придумати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cred up
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκεφτείτε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitdink
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tänka ut
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tror opp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of think up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THINK UP»

The term «think up» is regularly used and occupies the 65.423 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THINK UP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about think up

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10 QUOTES WITH «THINK UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word think up.
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Kevin J. Anderson
Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
2
Terry Brooks
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
3
Wayne Coyne
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
4
James Daly
I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.
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Jennifer Egan
I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.
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Robert Forster
If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.
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Humphrey Lyttelton
For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.
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Don Marquis
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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Jennette McCurdy
I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.
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Linda Sue Park
I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THINK UP»

Discover the use of think up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to think up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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God and Necessity
compulsion to think what He did either, though His nature determined that He think up some creatures or other. b. thinking otherwise. To avoid an even partial deity theory, we must say that God's nature did not determine that He think up any  ...
Brian Leftow, 2012
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Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms
... will think twice before giving such advice again. think up sth, also think sth up to invent something ♢ She used to think up funny things just to make him laugh. ♢ Sitting in the school yard, I thought up a scheme to get the older boys on my side.
Paul Heacock, 2003
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The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book
He won't settle for second best. think up think up & thinks up thinking up thought up thought up 1 . think ... up p.v. When you think up something, such as an idea, solution, or plan, you use your imagination to create it. Think up is similar to come  ...
Carl W. Hart, 2009
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Mind
''I can't just tell, but it is something like 'Think up and not think down.' " Mama sat down upon the edge of the bed and held the little hand. "Try and tell me how it says 'Think up,' " she urged, gently. "When I lie here I look out at the beautiful stars ...
‎1903
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The Treasury of ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC 1545-1650
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David Lumsden
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Indirect Procedures: A Musician's Guide to the Alexander ...
It goes somewhat like this: Think up along the spine. Put your weight mostly on the back leg. Lift the front knee a bit. Lean forward very slightly. Let your front foot catch you, but don't put too much weight down. E/'PWPF' Get into the swing of ...
Pedro de Alcantara, 2013
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109 Phrasal Verbs
Use: A person can think up something. Structure: think up [something] or think [ something] up Examples: I thought up this book while I was having a lesson. I love pizza. I wonder who the first person was to think it up. Practice: Have you ever ...
Michael DiGiacomo, 2012
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
'Also an article that the writer was able to "think up” out of his head without doing any research or "leg work'” (Douglas Leechman, 1960). think pumpkins of (one) selt'. To think well of oneself: coll.: late C.19—early 20. (Ouida, The Massarenes ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
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Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society: Implications for ...
Transcript A (continued) [15] Tony : If the jokey things you think up arise only from thinking in a really non-sensical way, you think nonsense. [l6] LCM : (To the whole group) Do you understand what he says? (Many students shake their heads.) ...
Chi-Ming Lam, 2013
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Newspaper Feature Writing
Unless an editor or a chief of staff assigns a specific story to you, you'll have to think up your own ideas, and writers who can regularly do that are highly prized on newspaper staffs. If you're a freelancer, you not only have to think up your own  ...
Len Granato, 2002

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THINK UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term think up is used in the context of the following news items.
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Teens think up clever condoms that would change colors to indicate …
Naturally, it would take three teenage boys to think it up. Students from England's Isaac Newton Academy have created a concept for a smart condom that would ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
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Innovar es una actitud | Think Up LKS
Innovar ¿es una actitud? Reflexión en un evento promovido por LKS. En conversación previa con las ponentes, la compositora navarra Teresa Catalán ha ... «EiTB Radio Televisión Pública Vasca, May 15»
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House of Cars: Top Gear's Clarkson, Hammond and May think up
TOP GEAR trio Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are rumoured to be reuniting for a new show which will air exclusively on Netflix. By Annie ... «Express.co.uk, May 15»
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Brooklynites fined for not shoveling, but lawmakers try to think up a …
(PIX11) — As New Yorkers begin to dig out from the latest snowstorm—property owners beware. The Sanitation Department issued more than 10,000 tickets this ... «New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV, Mar 15»
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What's next? Joe Maddon will think up something crazy for Cubs
Hiring a DJ for the Wrigley Field clubhouse? Dressing up as nerds for the first road trip? “Honestly, that really has to be extemporaneous,” Maddon said during ... «Comcast SportsNet Chicago, Feb 15»
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Students think up app to help during a tornado
Students at Robert Goddard Montessori School in Seabrook, Maryland, were honored this month for dreaming up an app to help keep families safe during a ... «Washington Post, Feb 14»

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