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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD THOUGHT POLICE

From the Thought Police described by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
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PRONUNCIATION OF THOUGHT POLICE

thought police play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THOUGHT POLICE

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Thought police is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES THOUGHT POLICE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Thought Police

The Thought Police are the secret police of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is the job of the Thought Police to uncover and punish thoughtcrime and thought-criminals. They use psychology and omnipresent surveillance to search, find, monitor and arrest members of society who could potentially challenge authority and status quo, even only by thought, hence the name Thought Police. They use terror and torture to achieve their ends. It also had much to do with Orwell's own "power of facing unpleasant facts," as he called it, and his willingness to criticize prevailing ideas which brought him into conflict with others and their "smelly little orthodoxies."...

Definition of thought police in the English dictionary

The definition of thought police in the dictionary is a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THOUGHT POLICE

thought
thought disorder
thought process
thought reading
thought shower
thought transference
thought-out
thought-provoking
thought-read
thought-reader
thoughted
thoughten
thoughtful
thoughtfully
thoughtfulness
thoughtless
thoughtlessly
thoughtlessness
thoughts
thoughtway

WORDS THAT END LIKE THOUGHT POLICE

airport police
Alice
auxiliary police
border police
campus police
chief of police
county police
Metropolitan Police
military police
mounted police
police
provincial police
railway police
riot police
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
secret police
security police
State police
the police
traffic police
Transport Police

Synonyms and antonyms of thought police in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «thought police» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THOUGHT POLICE

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

Translator English - Chinese

以为警察
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

policía del pensamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

thought police
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पुलिस सोचा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

يعتقد الشرطة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

думал полицию
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

polícia do pensamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুলিশ মনে করে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

police de la pensée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fikir polis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gedankenpolizei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

警察に考えた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

경찰 생각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pikir polisi
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

nghĩ cảnh sát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொலிஸை நினைத்தேன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोलिसांनी विचार केला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Polis düşünce
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

polizia del pensiero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

myśli policję
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

думав поліцію
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gândit poliție
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

σκέφτηκε η αστυνομία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gedink die polisie
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

trodde polisen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trodde politiet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of thought police

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THOUGHT POLICE»

The term «thought police» is regularly used and occupies the 60.411 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THOUGHT POLICE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about thought police

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THOUGHT POLICE»

Discover the use of thought police in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to thought police and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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1984
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George Orwell, 2004
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The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free ...
Provocative and persuasive, this book is a clarion call to anyone interested in preserving liberty. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Tammy Bruce, 2010
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Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police
This collection of editorials is Leo at his best-bitingly funny and with a keen moral edge." -Relgion and Liberty"
John Leo
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An adventure of the thought police
Peter Schjeldahl. AN ADVENTURE OF THE THOUGHT POLICE PETER ^ I / i , , . / » « • f e • < AN/ADVENTURE OF THE THOUGHT POLICE Peter Schjeldahl *• • Ferry.
Peter Schjeldahl, 1971
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The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda
5 The Special Higher Police were sometimes also called the “thought police” ( shisō keisatsu) because they prosecuted crimes dealing with acts labeled “ seditious.”Their police manual openly declared that police duties bound them “to prevent ...
Barak Kushner, 2007
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Life and Art: The Creative Synthesis in Literature
Winston's hostility toward Big Brother elicits guilt and fear that such Thoughtcrime will be discovered eventually and punished by the Thought Police, the essence of Thoughtcrime being the omnipotence of thought which equates wish and ...
James W. Hamilton, 2009
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Testing Scientific Theories
There are two competing ways of thinking about what the Bayesian is supposed to be doing, what I call the thought police model and the learning machine model. On the thought police model, the Bayesian is thought of as looking over our ...
John Earman, 1983
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Community Policing, Chicago Style
And more than 20 percent of each group thought police were unfair, more than twice the white rate. Minority respondents were more divided on the other two measures. Significantly for the mayor, Hispanics were substantially more dissatisfied ...
Wesley G. Skogan Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs Northwestern University, Northwestern University Susan M. Hartnett Project Director Institute for Policy Research, 1997
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Consequences
What if the “thought police” who monitored the official government server did not like the e-mail that she sent him. I will have to be careful about what I tell him, or find a better way to be able to provide information without the “thought police” ...
Rob Horton, 2007
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Infinite Possibilities of Social Dreaming
Somehow the "thought police" don't know how to investigate the bridge. The Matrix continues the enquiry in the next three dreams where a black man is seen through a pane of glass. He talks to me and we become friendly. But the dreamer is ...
W. Gordon Lawrence, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THOUGHT POLICE»

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Some Baltimore youth have fears of police reinforced in their schools
They knew it had been going on for decades, and they thought police rarely got in trouble. They were sick of it. “What we saw, I don't support it, but I can't say I ... «Washington Post, May 15»
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THOUGHT POLICE, COMING TO A COMMUNITY NEAR YOU?
Thought police, in George Orwell's dystopian 1949 work, "1984," were government authorities tasked with rooting out thought crimes – or, the basic mental ... «NewsWithViews.com, Feb 15»
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Chief constable warns against 'drift towards police state'
The battle against extremism could lead to a “drift towards a police state” in which officers are turned into “thought police”, one of Britain's most senior chief ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
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Sean Hannity Is 'Angry' About Eric Garner Case for All the Wrong …
When it was Fox News host Sean Hannity's chance to weigh in last night, he too expressed “anger” over the case, but not because he thought police used ... «Mediaite, Dec 14»
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Writer criticises Yes camp 'thought police'
He wrote: "Questioning even triggered a self-policing process - The Yes Thought Police - rather like the Calvinist one in which doubters started to hate ... «Herald Scotland, Sep 14»
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The Cannibal Cop Goes Free—but What About the Murderous …
But even as Valle and his family celebrate, the thought police are still holding three men in custody. All were part of Valle's online network, and each has been ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 14»
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Ruling in Cannibal Case Revives Debate Over When a Fantasy …
Mr. Valle was fired by the Police Department upon his conviction. ... We're not the thought police, and the court system is not the deputies of the thought police.”. «New York Times, Jul 14»
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Christian arrested for calling homosexuality a 'sin'
Mr Miano, who served as a Deputy Sherriff in Los Angeles County, said his experience suggested that the term “thought police” had become a reality in the UK. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 13»
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Unfriend the thought police
There can be only one response to the patently illegal action of Maharashtra police in arresting two young women for exercising their constitutional right to free ... «The Hindu, Nov 12»
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Don't make transgender jokes - or the thought police might arrest you
Yet again the police have allowed themselves to be used in New Labour's war on free speech. This time it is Cllr John Yardley, a Conservative councillor in ... «Daily Mail, Mar 09»

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