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GREAT MIND

Definition: GREAT MIND

GREAT MIND

1. To be inclined or strongly inclined in purpose; -- used with an infinitive. ``Sir Roger de Coverly . . . told me that he had a great mind to see the new tragedy with me.'' --Addison.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: GREAT MIND

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Willingness

Verb: be willing; Adjective: incline, lean to, mind, propend; had as lief; lend a willing ear, give a willing ear, turn a willing ear; have a half a mind to, have a great mind to; hold to, cling to; desire.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: GREAT MIND

English words defined with "GREAT MIND": come, conspicuousEquivocal chordIt seemsobvious, occurTo have a mind. (references)
Specialty definitions using "GREAT MIND": AbderitanCannon, CounterEverlastingGarden, GrapesHOLMESIdols, INAUSPICIOUSLY, INDECISIONMy Favourite Toy LanguagePredestinationROOSEVELTstorytortoise. (references)

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Commercial Usage: GREAT MIND

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: GREAT MIND

AuthorQuotation

Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

John Tillotson

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: GREAT MIND

Expressions using "GREAT MIND": have a great mind to to have a great mind. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GREAT MIND

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

alike great mind think

6

bird great mind speckled were

4

book great mind mind puzzler teasers

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GREAT MIND

Language Translations for "GREAT MIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

grande talent, grande esprit. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagy kedve volna vmihez (have a good mind to sg, have a great mind to), kedve volna vmihez (have a good mind to sg, have a great mind to). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eatgray indmay

   

Romanian

  

fi foarte dornic sã (have a good mind to, have a great mind to). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GREAT MIND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-m-n-r-t"

-1 letter: derating, dreaming, emigrant, gradient, margined, midrange, migrated, redating, remating, treading.

-2 letters: antired, darting, deraign, detrain, dragnet, garment, germina, gradine, grained, granite, granted, gratine, inarmed, ingrate, mangier, margent, marting, mediant, metring, migrant, migrate, minaret, mintage, ragtime, raiment, reading, readmit, reaming, tangier, teaming, tearing, tegmina, terming, trading, trained, triaged.

-3 letters: admire, aidmen, aigret, airmen, airted.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-m-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: abridgment, germinated, marginated, moderating.

 

+2 letters: abridgement, abridgments, demarcating, drumbeating, impregnated, outdreaming, readmitting, remediating.

 

+3 letters: abridgements, demagnetizer, disagreement, drumbeatings, fragmentized, preadmitting, trademarking, ungerminated.

 

+4 letters: administering, animadverting, demagnetizers, democratizing, demonstrating, disagreements, disparagement, hydromagnetic, masterminding, predominating, premeditating, transmigrated.

 

+5 letters: aggrandizement, anagrammatized, countermanding, demilitarizing, disarrangement, discouragement, disparagements, intermediating, overmedicating, transmogrified.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GREAT MIND


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 52 45 41 54      4D 49 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010100 00100000 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#32 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0045 0041 0054      004D 0049 004E 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4152393554247434838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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