hem and haw
discourse
consider
discoursively
talk over
let me see
talk
reflect
attend
present
think
consideration
hairsplitting
line of thought
point
moot
bounce around
premeditate
change the subject
rede
debate
council
wrestle
chew over
treat
go off halfcocked
try on for size
canvass
self-questioning
conclusion
burning
determination
mull over
subject
topic
decision
suggestiveness
theme
on someone's mind
linger
act out
propone
one's own boss
colloquy
subcognitive
higher-order
discuss
confer
converse
philosophizing
conversation
discussionlike
behold
work through
contemplatingly
contemplatively
precontemplation
studious
beard-stroking
mind
should
would
mentally
tiptoe around
cogitation
interlocution
approach
think out loud
underpoint
talking
mental masturbation
digest
vague
descant
cerebrate
chat
bechat
fence-sitting
bat around
bend someone's ear
active
germane
have in mind
noodle
ratiocinatio
dissert
meditate
think over
conversationize
speculate
alieniloquent
soapbox
question
excogitate
auto-suggestion
run past
burning
subcognitive
higher-order
discussionlike
precontemplation
studious
vague
active
germane
alieniloquent
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contemplatingly
contemplatively
mentally
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consideration
hairsplitting
line of thought
point
council
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determination
subject
topic
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reflect
attend
present
moot
bounce around
premeditate
change the subject
rede
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wrestle
chew over
treat
go off halfcocked
try on for size
canvass
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linger
act out
propone
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conversation
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mind
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verb
verb
- To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
- To believe or opine (that).
- To think about seriously.
- To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
- To assign some quality to.
- To look at attentively.
- To think of doing.
- To take up as an example.
- To debate (or dispose of) a motion.
phrase
- Used when pondering the results of an action one is doing, or to politely ask for permission to do something
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, me, see.
- Used as a filled pause to indicating thinking or pondering, not inviting hearer to participate.
- Used to indicate incredulity; wait a minute; hold on
verb
- To discuss; to talk about.
- To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
- To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- To gossip; to create scandal.
- Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- To speak (a certain language).
- To confess, especially implicating others.
noun
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- A lecture.
- A major topic of social discussion.
- Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- Gossip; rumour.
verb
- To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look after.
- To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.
- To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; to regularly go to (an event or place).
- To wait upon as a servant etc.; to accompany to assist (someone).
- To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
- To go to (a place) for some purpose (with at).
verb
- To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
- To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
- To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
- To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
- To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
- To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
- To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
- To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
- To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
- In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.
- To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
- To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
- To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
- To put on, stage (a play etc.).
- To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
- To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.
- To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
- To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
- To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour.
noun
- The current moment or period of time.
- A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.
- The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
- The present tense.
adj
- Located in the immediate vicinity.
- Attentive; alert; focused.
- Neither for or against (used in voting to express abstention)
- Relating to now, for the time being; current.
- Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.
noun
verb
- To ponder, to go over in one's head.
- To guess; to reckon.
- To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- To presume; to venture.
- To seem, to appear.
- To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
noun
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
verb
- To discuss or debate.
- To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- To say, utter, also insinuate.
- To take root and begin to grow.
- To make or declare irrelevant.
- To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
- To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
adj
- Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- Having no practical consequence or relevance.
- Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
noun
- A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- A mutual follower on a social media platform.
- Vagina.
- A moot court.
- A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
- A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
- Talk.
verb
- To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
- To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
noun
- An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
- Discussion of opposing views.
- An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
verb
- To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
- To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
- To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
- To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
- To provide something special and pleasant.
- To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward.
- To commit the offence of providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence a voter.
- To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
- To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in mind.
noun
verb
- To thoroughly examine or investigate (something) physically or by discussion; to debate, to gather opinion, to scrutinize.
- To seek the support of voters or a constituency in a forthcoming election or poll; to campaign.
- To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses.
- To scrutinize (the ballot in an election or the votes cast) and reject irregular votes; also, to challenge or dispute (an election result).
- To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc. from (people or a place)
- To debate, to discuss.
- To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc.; to conduct a survey.
noun
- A seeking or solicitation, or determination, of support or favourable votes in a forthcoming election or poll.
- A scrutiny of the votes cast in an election to reject irregular votes; also, a tally, audit, and certification of votes.
- A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc.
noun
- the act of making up your mind about something
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- an intuitive assumption
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- event whose occurrence ends something
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- the act of ending something
- a final settlement
- the last section of a communication
adj
- Being keenly discussed.
- Feeling very hot.
- Feeling great passion.
- Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
- So hot as to seem to burn (something).
- On fire.
noun
- A fiery pain.
- The act by which something burns or is burned.
- purposefully remove certain number of coins in circulation, by sending it to a public address where the private keys cannot be obtained (called burn address, eater address or black hole), usually should be available on the blockchain for anyone to review such a transaction. It’s a one-way address with no ability to reverse the transaction or withdraw the coins. For all practical purposes, the asset no longer exists (it has been “burned”). The act of burning effectively removes tokens from the available supply.
- A fire.
noun
- the act of making up your mind about something
- the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation
- the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
verb
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
adj
verb
- To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion.
- To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.
- To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
verb
verb
noun
- Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
- The opposite or reverse.
- One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
- Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true.".
adj
adj
verb
- To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- To purpose, intend, plan.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To remember.
- To be careful about.
- To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
noun
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- Attention, consideration or thought.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
verb
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the stated thing will happen or be true in the future.
- Indicates that something is expected to have happened or to be the case now.
- Used to express a conditional outcome.
- With verbs such as 'see' or 'hear', usually in the second person, used to point out something remarkable in either a good or bad way.
- To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.
- Used to impart a tentative, conjectural or polite nuance.
- Simple past tense of shall.
- In questions, asks what is correct, proper, desirable, etc.
- Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must').
- Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable.
- Used to form a variant of the present subjunctive, expressing a state or action that is hypothetical, potential, mandated, etc.
noun
verb
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
- Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
- Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
- Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
- Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
- Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
- Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
- Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
- Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
noun
verb
- To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
- To play an approach shot.
- To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
- Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
- To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
- Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
- To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
- To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
- To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
noun
- An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
- The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
- An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
- The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
- A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
- A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
- An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
- A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
verb
- To emphasize or call attention to a point within a discussion.
- To point the underside.
- To include too few points.
- To add a dot beneath a letter as a proofreading or diacritical mark.
- To indicate or focus on a position closer than the one that is intended.
adj
noun
- Something that calls attention to or emphasizes a particular conclusion within a topic of discussion.
- The number of scored points below a specified criterion.
- A downward facing point on the underside.
- The lowest intensity point of a diminuendo that is followed by an increase in volume and intensity.
verb
- To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
- To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- To undergo digestion.
- To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
- To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
noun
- Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
- That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
- A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
- The result of applying a hash function to a message.
adj
- Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
- Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
- Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
- Lacking expression; vacant.
- Not having a precise meaning.
- Not sharply outlined; hazy.
- Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
- Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
noun
verb
verb
- To talk of; to discuss.
- To talk more than a few words.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
noun
- A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- A chat room.
- An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- Informal conversation.
- The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
- Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
verb
- To discuss.
- To flit quickly from place to place.
- To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.
- To have a team's first batter of the inning come to bat for a second time (after all of the others in the batting line-up have batted). (See the usage note below.)
adj
- Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative
- Brisk; lively.
- Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.
- Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
- (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner.
- Requiring or implying action or exertion
- Not passive.
- Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter.
- Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
- Emitting hot materials, such as lava, smoke, or steam, or producing tremors.
- Implying or producing rapid action.
- Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy
- Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.
- Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
- In action; actually proceeding; working; in force
noun
verb
- To ponder or think about (something).
- To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
- To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- To engage in frivolous behaviour; to fool around or waste time.
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
noun
- A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- The brain; the head.
- An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
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