consider

1. (transitive) To think about seriously.Examples: "Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun."; "How can you know everything about everything, if you won't consider any dissent?"; "Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things visible."Synonyms: bethink, reflect, take, afterthink, agitate, bethink, call to mind, chewtransitive

2. (intransitive) To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.Synonyms: afterthink, agitate, bethink, call to mind, chew, chew over, chew the cud, cogitateintransitive

3. (transitive) To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action.Examples: "I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow."Synonyms: think of, bethinktransitive

4. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.Examples: "Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful."; "I considered the pie undercooked."; "I consider you (to be) an excellent friend."Synonyms: deem, regard, think of, account, count, esteem, see, considerditransitive

5. (transitive) To look at attentively.Examples: "She sat there for a moment, considering him."; "She considereth a field, and buyeth it."Synonyms: regard, observe, attend, clock, consider, give heed, heed, let in ontransitive

6. (transitive) To take up as an example.Examples: "Consider a triangle having three equal sides."; "Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself."Synonyms: taketransitive