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(ō-pīn') pronunciation

v., o·pined, o·pin·ing, o·pines.

v.tr.
To state as an opinion.

v.intr.
To express an opinion: opined on the defendant's testimony.

[Middle English opinen, from Old French opiner, from Latin opīnārī, to suppose.]


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verb

    To have an opinion: believe, consider, deem, hold, think. Informal figure, judge. Idioms: be of the opinion. See opinion.


any of a class of unusual derivatives of basic amino acids not found in normal plant tissue, but found in plant tissue that has been transformed by oncogenic plasmids from agrobacteria. The class includes the nopaline and octopine families.

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - mene

Nederlands (Dutch)
menen, denken

Français (French)
v. tr. - émettre un avis, opiner

Deutsch (German)
v. - meinen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - αποφαίνομαι, γνωματεύω

Italiano (Italian)
opinare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - opinar, julgar, dar parecer

Русский (Russian)
высказать мнение, предположить

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - opinar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - mena, tycka, anse, antyda, förmoda, tänka

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
想, 认为, 以为

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 想, 認為, 以為

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 의견을 말하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 意見を持つ, 考える

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يعبر عن رأيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הביע דיעה, חשב ש-‬


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