mind
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.Examples: "The nature of the mind is a major topic in philosophy."; "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."Synonyms: cognition, learningcountableuncountable
2. (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.Examples: "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."; "If you get a “trolling” comment, delete it, do not respond to it, and move forward immediately without paying any further mind."uncountable
verb (English)
1. (now regional) To remember.Examples: "The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot."regional
2. (obsolete or dialectal) To remind; put one's mind on.Examples: "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."; "1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said."dialectalobsolete
3. (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).Examples: "Mind you don't knock that glass over."imperative
4. (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.Examples: "You should mind your own business."; "My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play."; "Upon my coming down, I found all the Children of the Family got about my old Friend, and my Landlady herself, who is a notable prating Gossip, engaged in a Conference with him; being mightily pleased with his stroaking her little Boy upon the Head, and bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book."Synonyms: heed
5. (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.Examples: "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."
6. (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.Examples: "I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind."IrelandUK
Definition source: Wiktionary