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Mind as a Verb

Verb

mind (third-person singular simple present minds, present participle minding, simple past and past participle minded)

  1. To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind. quotations ▲

Mind to-morrow's early meeting!

  1. (now regional) To remember. [from 14th c.] quotations ▲
  2. (obsolete or dialectal) To remind; put one's mind on. quotations ▲

Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day: / And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, / For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.

Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.

This minds me of a cobbling colonel of famous memory.

I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.

He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.

  1. To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice. quotations ▲

Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me / For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; / Perchance he will not mind me.

  1. To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence. quotations ▲

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

  1. (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]

Mind you don't knock that glass over.

  1. (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed. [from 15th c.] quotations ▲

You should mind your own business.

My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.

Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.

  1. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. [from 17th c.]

Would you mind my bag for me?

  1. To be careful about. [from 18th c.] quotations ▲
    • 2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, →ISBN, page xv:

Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.

  1. (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan. quotations ▲
    • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “[The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_3 "w:Henry VI, Part 3")”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

I mind to tell him plainly what I think.

[…] and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.

  1. (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.

I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.

  1. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. [from 16th c.]

I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.

Do you mind if I smoke?

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