thinker
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈθɪŋ.kə//
- Royaume-Uni/[ˈθɪŋ.kə]/
- États-Unis//ˈθɪŋ.kɚ//
- États-Unis/[ˈθɪŋ.kɚ] ~ [ˈθɪŋ.kɹ̩]/
One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
nom
- 1
One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
The doer and the thinker No allowance for the other.
- 2
An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.”
- 3
argotThe brain; the mind.
"Well, I tried to do like you and grandfather say; don't use my thinker, use imagination."
- 4
argotA poser; a conundrum that requires some thinking.
HANK: The NRA is a Washington D.C. based organization. Are you telling me you support Washington D.C.? DALE: That's a thinker.
Étymologie
From Middle English thinkere, equivalent to think + -er. Compare West Frisian tinker (“thinker”), Dutch denker (“thinker”), German Denker (“thinker”), Danish tænker (“thinker”), Swedish tänkare (“thinker”).
Formes
- pluriel
- thinkers
thinker · One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
thinking · The action or process of using one's mind to consider or…thinner · A liquid substance used to thin the consistency of another…third · The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after…