A Thousand

Definition: A Thousand

A Thousand

Adjective

1. Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: A Thousand

Diuturnity

Verb: last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand years.

Inexpedience

Tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a thousand.

Multitude

Adjective: many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore.

Negation

Phrase: there never was a greater mistake; I know better; non haec in faedera; a thousand times no.

Seclusion Exclusion

Among them but not of them ; " and homeless near a thousand homes I stood "; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife; " makes a solitude and calls it peace "; magna civitas magna solitudo; " never less alone than when alone "; " O sacred solitude! divine retreat! ".

Unconformity

Fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.

Crosswords: A Thousand

For a thousand years you've waited for my return. (End of Days; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

In a thousand years, there will be no men and women, just wankers, and that's fine by me. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

I'll give you a thousand dollars if you'll do it. (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr)

I'll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die and I'll silence anyone who gets in my way! (Monsters, Inc.; writing credit: Robert L. Baird; Jill Culton)

Do a thousand things (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC)

I must have told you a thousand (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

And a thousand sensations (I Do (Cherish You); performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Keith Stegall and Dan Hill)

I'll walk a thousand miles (Ready Or Not; performing artist: After 7)

I thought it would be so simple, like a thousand times before. (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois)

To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times. (references; author: Mark Twain)

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Changing one thing for the better is worth more than proving a thousand things are wrong. (references; author: unknown)

God has a thousand ways, where I can see not one; when all my means have reached their end, then His have just begun. (references; author: unknown)

A Thousand Pleasures (1968)

Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

The Heat of a Thousand Suns (1956)

I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

A Thousand Million Years (1954)

A Thousand Stars (performing artist: Kathy Young and The Innocents)

A Thousand Miles (performing artist: Vanessa Carlton)

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

Books

• Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo (Shawnee Classics) (reference)

• San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories (reference)

• A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Character in Its Proverbs (reference)

• The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) (reference)

• Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles Through Baja California, the Other Mexico (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Melvins: Live - Salad of a Thousand Delights (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90's (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Figure 49. Float invented by Prince Albert I of Monaco and Georges Pouchet for study of currents in the North Atlantic off l'HIRONDELLE in 1887. Left: the unit as it would be seen in the water. Right: the internal structure of the float. A thousand of these floats were released mainly northwest of the Azores in July 1887. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Engineering drawing for a tower ("Boston Peace Jubilee Naval Tower; The Tower Of A Thousand Columns"), Boston, Massachusetts. Elevation and plan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Madame, he said, bowing, I owe you a thousand apologies for disturbing you at this hour. Credit: Library of Congress.

Here's an account of a family of five that lives on a thousand a year : Oh, well, papa, they probably keep only one motor. Credit: Library of Congress.

The girl: Thank you doctor, thank you a thousand times : The doctor: Don't mention it, you happen to be blessed with a good constitution. Credit: Library of Congress.

Let a thousand flowers bloom / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ernest W. Kirk Jr. with his two sons on their farm near Ordway, Colorado. Fruits of their farm, coming from their labor, which has placed them in a few months from almost hopeless condition to a family with net worth approaching a thousand dollars. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grants, New Mexico. Cultivated fields along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico. This land, farmed by Mormons, shipped over a thousand carloads of carrots, lettuce, peas, etc., last year. Credit: Library of Congress.

Madura - entrance to Hall of a Thousand Columns, Temple of Siva. Credit: Library of Congress.

Madura - cow grazing in the Hall of a Thousand Columns, Temple of Siva. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Supposing the conqueror gives to one man a thousand acres, to him and his heirs for ever; to another he lets a thousand acres for his life, under the rent of 501. (Second Treatise of Government)

Amid his heavy burdens, duties, and responsibilities - unsought but not recoiled from - the President has traveled a thousand miles to dignify and magnify our meeting here to-day and to give me an opportunity of addressing this kindred nation, as well as my own countrymen across the ocean, and perhaps some other countries too. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A thousand vexatious thoughts would recur.

She said that a thousand and a thousand people had met him here, and had written in his book, and have his mark on them.

Master Scaufflaire regretted terribly that he had not said a thousand francs.

He saw her urge her vanities, her fine dress and sash and long black stockings, and knew that he had yielded to them a thousand times.

A thousand hearts are great within my bosom.

They supplied me as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite.

Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.

Gonzalo: Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any thing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

He went on to study over a thousand individuals in deaf families and found that some of them had certain physical characteristics in common. (references)

For example, a person 75 years old is a thousand times more likely to develop and die of colon cancer than a person 25 years old. Because people are living longer today than they did 50 or 100 years ago, they have a longer exposure time to the factors that may start gene changes that lead to cancer. (references)

It takes two D (or 0.6 kGy in the case of E. coli) to kill 99% of the organisms present, 3 D (or 0.9 kGy) to kill 99.9% and so on. Thus, once you know the D-value for an organism, and how many organisms might possibly be present in a food, the technician can estimate how much irradiation it will take to kill all of them. For example, if you think that a thousand E. coli O157 could be present in a food, then you want to be able to treat with at least 4 D, or 4 x 0.3 kGy, or 1.2 kGy. The D-values are different for each organism, and need to be measured for each organism. (references)

Business

There are over a thousand companies whose main activity is the manufacturing of packaging and containers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Djibouti

In previous years, the Djiboutian National Office for the Assistance of Refugees and Displaced Persons reported that it deported up to a thousand Ethiopians each week. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

The War of a Thousand Days (1899-1902) cost an estimated 100,000 lives, and up to 300,000 people died during La Violencia of the late 1940s and 1950s. (references)

Romania

The launching, by end-2001, of a $200 million project for supplying more than a thousand schools and high schools with IT laboratories permitting access to Internet will generate a surge in the PC market. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

Memorial estimated that the number of individuals unaccounted for was somewhere between several hundred and a thousand. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A thousand

Expressions using "a thousand": a man in a thousand ♦ a thousand and one ♦ a thousand feet high ♦ a thousand thanks! ♦ a thousand times ♦ a thousand times no ♦ a thousand times no! ♦ a thousand to one ♦ around a thousand ♦ brave a thousand years ♦ it is a thousand pities! ♦ one in a thousand. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

рядък (close, fine, infrequent, occasional, one in a thousand, rare, recherche, singular, sparse, thin, uncommon, washy), един на хиляда (one in a thousand), изключителен (especial, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, inimitable, one in a thousand, phenomenal, rare, rousing, signal, super, superior, surpassing, unaverage, uncommon, unexampled, unique, unusual, vintage). (various references)

Chinese 

百端待舉 (a thousand things remain to be done, numerous tasks remain to be undertaken), 不� 千里 (go to the trouble of traveling a long distance, make light of traveling a thousand li). (various references)

Finnish

tuhat (one thousand, thousand). (various references)

German

tausendmal (a thousand times), tausenderlei (a thousand things). (various references)

Hungarian

tisztán ezret keres évente (to net a thousand a year), nettó ezret keres évente (to net a thousand a year). (various references)

Italian

mille (one, one thousand, thousand, umpteen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

千載一遇 (happen only once in a thousand years, once in a lifetime), 千人力 (strength of a thousand men), 千�'長 (captain of a thousand), 一騎�"千の武者 (match for a thousand, matchless warrior). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せ�"そつちょう (captain of a thousand), せ�"ざいいちぐう (happen only once in a thousand years, once in a lifetime), せ�"に�"りき (strength of a thousand men), いっきとうせ�"のむしゃ (match for a thousand, matchless warrior). (various references)

Pig Latin

aay ousandthay.(various references)

Romanian

vreo mie (around a thousand), un om dintre o mie (a man in a thousand), pãcat de dumnezeu (it is a great pity, it is a thousand pities), mare pãcat (it is a thousand pities), la o mie de picioare înãlţime (a thousand feet high), de mii de ori (a thousand times), ba (a thousand times no, nay, no, rather). (various references)

Scottish

mìle (mile, one thousand, thousand). (various references)

Swedish

tusen tack (a thousand thanks). (various references)

Turkish

binde bir (hardly ever, mil, millesimal, milli-, one in a thousand, thousandth). (various references)

milia, milibus, milico, milium, mille. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: handouts, thousand.

-2 letters: astound, handout.

-3 letters: daunts, donuts, haunts, hondas, hounds, sonata, soudan, stound, unhats, unshod.

-4 letters: adust, anoas, antas, aunts, autos, datos, daunt, dauts, doats, donas, donut, dunts, hadst, hands, hansa, hants, haunt, honda, hosta, hound, hunts, nadas, nodus, oaths, sadhu, santo, sauna, shoat, shout, shunt, snath, snout, sound, south, stand, thous, thuds.

-5 letters: aahs.

+4 letters: diathermanous, fountainheads.