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Mind as a Noun

Noun

mind (countable and uncountable, plural minds)

  1. The capability for rational thought. quotations ▲

Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.

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 foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]

“ […] 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.”

  1. The ability to be aware of things.

There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.

  1. The ability to remember things.

My mind just went blank.

  1. The ability to focus the thoughts.

I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.

  1. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities. quotations ▲

He was one of history’s greatest minds.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, […]

That's far from the promised land set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guiding mind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means that the two sides of the system are in different hands - and neither is (as yet) in the hands of a 'guiding mind'.

  1. Judgment, opinion, or view.

He changed his mind after hearing the speech.

  1. Desire, inclination, or intention. quotations ▲

She had a mind to go to Paris.

I have half a mind to do it myself.

I am of a mind to listen.

I fortuned to come in,

Thys rebell to behold,

Whereof I hym controld;

But he sayde that he wolde

Agaynst my mynde and wyll

In my church hawke styll.

Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]

  1. A healthy mental state.

I, __ being of sound mind and body, do hereby […]

You are losing your mind.

  1. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based. quotations ▲

The mind is a process of the brain.

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.

The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.

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.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

  1. Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.

a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind

  1. (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought. quotations ▲
    • 1849, Eliza Cook, Eliza Cook’s Journal,p.119, volume 1:

They are the “tars” who give mind to the spreading sail, and their bold courage is the pabulum which will preserve our sea-girt isle in its vernal green to furthest posterity.

Then he, having mind of Beelzebub, the god of flies, fled without a halt homewards; but, falling in the coo's loan, broke two ribs and a collar bone, the whilk misfortune was much blessed to his soul.

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