THAN

Definition: THAN

THAN

Adverb

1. Then. See Then.

Conjunction

1. A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"THAN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a death".

Date "THAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Tips from 1870

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

Crosswords: THAN

Maya (to call), Romany (bed), Vietnamese (consumption, grime, scoop).

I am 42 years old, in less than a year I will be dead (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

You're cuter than I thought (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

I was 24, younger than you are now, but times were different then (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

She's been a lot better to me than any woman I ever knew (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston)

This is a true story of how friendships run deeper than blood (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

More than your lover (More Than A Woman; performing artist: Aaliyah)

I will love you more than that (More Than That; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

Over tha years we wuz poorer than tha other little kids (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

Telling me more than any words could say (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner)

Love runs deeper than any ocean, it clouds you're mind with emotion (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville)

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. (references; author: Mark Twain)

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. (references; author: Bob Hope)

Better bend than break. (references; author: Scottish Proverb)

Give a grateful man more than he asks. (references; author: Portuguese Proverb)

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words. (references; author: Chinese Proverb)

A purely rural duel truly plural is better than a purely plural duel truly rural. (references; author: unknown)

More Than a School (1974)

Thicker Than Water (1973)

More Than One (1971)

Darker Than Amber (1970)

More Dead Than Alive (1969)

More Than I Can Say (performing artist: Leo Sayer)

Bluer Than Blue (performing artist: Michael Johnson)

Stronger Than Dirt (performing artist: Ted and the Talltops Roddy)

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (performing artist: Jimmy Rogers)

Easier Said Than Done (performing artist: The Essex)

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

References

• The World Market for Milk and Cream in Solid Form Containing More Than 1.5% Milkfat: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Effortless Elegance With Colin Cowie: Menus, Tips, Strategies, and More Than 200 Recipes (reference)

• The Will Harris Murders: November 13, 1906, a Night in Which Asheville Was a Tougher Town Than Tombstone and Dodge City Rolled into One (reference)

• Fresh and Fast Vegan Pleasures: More than 140 Delicious, Creative Recipes to Nourish Aspiring and Devoted Vegans (reference)

• Web Services: Emerging as a Broad Internet Application Integration Standard, Bigger Than Just Microsoft.NET: Giga Planning Assumption [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• A New Twist on Tatting: More Than 100 Glorious Designs (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Dan Than (reference)

• Financial Aid In Less Than 3000 Words (reference)

• More Than Money Membership (reference)

• More Than Money (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Stranger Than Paradise (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Display Stranger Than Fiction (reference)

• Love Is Greater Than Me (reference)

• Louder Than Bombs (reference)

• Louder Than Love [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Louder Than Morrissey (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 3ft USB 2.0 Male To Male 480MBps (40 Times Faster Than USB1) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Biesemeyer 78-955 T-Square Table Saw BladeGuard System for Fences Less Than 40" Long (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Mice were injected with mouse sarcoma cells amd treated 3 days later when many micro-metastatic tumor foci were evident in the lungs. Lungs on the left were treated with saline. The lungs on the right were treated with lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Greater than 250 sarcoma metastases are seen in the lungs of saline treated mice. This number is significantly reduced to less than 12 in mice receiving LAK cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Normal mouse lung is 1 inch long. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a procedure to treat cancer. Patients are injected with a photosensitizer which is a light sensitive drug selectively retained by cancer cells. When exposed to laser light, the photosensitizer in the cancer cells produces a toxic reaction which destroys the tumor. This photo shows an argon-ion laser, the first component of the argon pumped-dye laser (630nm red). This argon-ion laser emits blue-green light at 488/514 nm, and is used to excite a dye in the second component, the dye laser head, where the wavelength is changed to 630nm red. Different photosensitizers absorb light at different wavelengths. Some absorb light most efficiently in the blue light region of the spectrum around 400 nanometers(nm) with lesser absorption in the green and red light range. However, red light at 630 nm penetrates deeper into the tumor tissue (3-8 mm) than green or blue light. For this reason, the majority of PDT work has used 630 nm light. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

With slight magnification, the main body divisions and gross morphological characteristics of mosquito larvae can be observed. In this manner, scientists can quickly identify larvae in the field, rather than returning to the laboratory. Credit: CDC.

The CDC moved its location to Clifton Road after construction was completed in 1960. In 1947, Emory University donated the land on Clifton Road for the new CDC headquarters, but construction did not begin for more than a decade. Credit: CDC.

"Canary" (movie) by Travis Casper. The actual graph flys much faster than this slowed down sequence, and it breathes, too.

Annual Depletion Of Antarctic Ozone Results Are In: 'Ozone Hole' Smaller Than Last Year. Credit: NASA.

Exciting Hubble telescope images of more than a dozen very distant colliding galaxies indicate ... Credit: NASA.

Stretching the Hubble telescope's vision farther across space and further back into time than ... Credit: NASA.

Where the Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea, it creates an extensive delta. The Volga Delta is comprised of more than 500 channels, and sustains the most productive fishing grounds in Eurasia. Credit: NASA.

The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of Iceland's total coastline. Credit: NASA.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

No one shall be arrested or imprisoned upon the appeal of a woman, for the death of any other than her husband. (reference)

And indeed it was a foolish thing, as well as dishonest, to hoard up more than he could make use of. (Second Treatise of Government)

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. (reference)

Clause 4: Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. (reference)

Amendment VII. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. (reference)

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once. (reference)

If such be the real state of things, this is worse than solemn mockery. (reference)

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. (reference)

The divisions must not be grouped under more than two army corps headquarters staffs. (reference)

Prevention is better than cure. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In one respect Mrs. Elton grew even worse than she had appeared at first

The whole skein of thought was tangled worse than ever

And I no more believe Topper was really blind than I believe he had eyes in his boots

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

But, as for me, I come to the inquest with other senses than they possess

It was impossible to extricate him otherwise than by raising the waggon from beneath

His mother had a nicer smell than his father

Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills

No more than with my soul I mourn for yours

The bank is something else than men.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It affects men more than women. (references)

Symptoms rarely last more than 3 weeks. (references)

The seizure lasts longer than 5 minutes. (references)

Business

The store had more than 300 employees. (references)

Men use slightly more time than women. (references)

Finns travel more domestically than abroad. (references)

Children

Vanuatu

Boys tend to receive more education than girls. (references)

Russia

These children stay in COVINA for no more than 30 days. (references)

Cape Verde

Attendance rates by boys and girls differ by less than 1 percent. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cuba

Police detained more than 20 members of the organization. (references)

Togo

Most Internet users are businesses rather than households. (references)

Azerbaijan

Internet access costs less than $1 (4,600 manats) per hour. (references)

Discrimination

Vietnam

This prohibition is less restrictive than in past years because of the growth in private sector job opportunities. (references)

Bhutan

It claims that ethnic Nepalese fill 22 percent of government jobs, which is slightly less than their proportion of the total population. (references)

Economic History

Mongolia

Literacy--more than 85%. (references)

Human Rights

Poland

Courts rather than prosecutors issue arrest warrants. (references)

Gambia

Credible eyewitnesses saw more than seven youths injured. (references)

Cameroon

Some cells built for fifteen persons hold more than fifty. (references)

Indigenous People

New Zealand

Maori inmates constitute more than half the prison population. (references)

Bangladesh

Bengalis later set fire to more than 100 houses belonging to tribals. (references)

Central African Republic

Pygmies often work for villagers at wages lower than those paid to members of other groups. (references)

Minorities

Russia

The multiethnic population is made up of more than 100 national groups. (references)

Slovenia

The Roma are best characterized as a set of groups rather than as one community. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Arab citizens hold fewer than 60 of the country's 5,000 university faculty positions. (references)

Political Economy

Djibouti

Presidents cannot be reelected more than twice. (references)

Sri Lanka

The conflict has claimed more than 64,000 lives. (references)

THAILAND

Patent examinations can take more than five years. (references)

Political Rights

Yemen

Voter registration of women is less than half that of men. (references)

Congo

Rebels appointed local officials rather than holding elections. (references)

Honduras

Of 10,000 Hondurans who registered to vote abroad, slightly more than 1,000 voted. (references)

Trade

Bahrain

None, other than provisions identified above. (references)

El Salvador

K. Plain silver coins of less than 0.900 purity. (references)

Brazil

The product registration process often takes more than one year. (references)

Travel

Denmark

Danes work shorter hours than Americans. (references)

Vietnam

A general business call lasts no more than one hour. (references)

Romania

Issuance of this passport may take more than one day. (references)

Women

Switzerland

Women also are promoted less than men. (references)

Slovak Republic

On average women earn 22 percent less than men. (references)

Belarus

The level of education of women is higher than that of men. (references)

Worker Rights

San Marino

Wages generally were higher than the minimum. (references)

Belarus

BYCWO receives more than 100 inquiries a month. (references)

Cape Verde

In 2000 such cases involved fewer than 30 persons. (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.

Expressions using "THAN": a custom more honored in the breach than the observance ♦ actions speak louder than words ♦ balance with banks for periods of more than one month ♦ be better than one's word ♦ be larger than ♦ better late than never ♦ better safe than sorry ♦ better than ♦ better than anybody ♦ bite off more than one can chew ♦ do better than ♦ easier said than done ♦ fewer than ♦ financial gold other than monetary gold ♦ from than on ♦ go one better than ♦ go one better than smb. ♦ go one better than smb. in ♦ greater than ♦ half a loaf is better than no bread ♦ harder than steel ♦ have more than one string to one's bow ♦ he could do no other than ♦ he did it more out of spite than for the profit ♦ higher than average ♦ his bark is worse than his bite ♦ his eyes are bigger than his belly ♦ illuminating surface of a signalling lamp other than a retro reflector ♦ in less than ♦ in less than no time ♦ issue otherwise than for cash ♦ it is better to be safe than sorry ♦ it's easier said than done ♦ it's nothing else than a rumour ♦ i've had more than enough of that business! ♦ jump more than ♦ just than ♦ know better than ♦ know better than to ♦ larger than life ♦ less ... than ♦ less than ♦ less than carload freight ♦ liabilities to banks for periods of more than one month ♦ little less than ♦ meat in pieces of less than 100 grams ♦ Menopausal Symptoms (Other Than Osteoporosis) ♦ more bark than bite ♦ more dead than alive ♦ more easily said than done ♦ more frightened than hurt ♦ more in sorrow than in anger ♦ more often than not ♦ more than ♦ more than a match for ♦ more than enough ♦ more than flesh and blood can bear ♦ more than generously ♦ more than is right ♦ more than it's woth ♦ more than necessary ♦ neither more nor less than ♦ no better than ♦ no better than a swindler ♦ no better than before ♦ no fewer than ♦ no less than ♦ no more than ♦ no sooner ... than ♦ no sooner said than done ♦ no sooner than ♦ not more than ♦ nothing else than ♦ nothing less than ♦ obtain best results than ♦ one's bark being worse than his bite ♦ only better than nothing ♦ other than ♦ other than this ♦ prevention is better than cure ♦ quality matters more than quantity ♦ rather than ♦ rather than otherwise ♦ since than ♦ star knob with more than four projections ♦ storage of more than one year ♦ There's More Than One Way To Do It ♦ there's more to it than meets the eye ♦ To be lever than ♦ to be more Catholic than the Pope ♦ truth is often stranger than fiction ♦ two heads are better than one ♦ whiter than white ♦ worse than anybody ♦ worse than nothing ♦ yarn spun from silk waste other than noil silk. Additional references.

Beginning with "THAN": than-working.

Ending with "THAN": EARLIER-THAN, example-than, faster-than, further-than, higher-than, Jon-ee-than, LESS-THAN, more-than, rather-than, third-than, turf-than.

Containing "THAN": better-than-average, better-than-expected, faster-than-light, higher-than-average, higher-than-expected, larger-than-average, less-than-brilliant, less-than-perfect, lower-than-average, whiter-than-white, worse-than-expected.

Afrikaans

as (as, ash, cinder, how, if, like, provided, provided that, such, such as, what, when). (various references)

Albanian

sesa (before), se (but, that). (various references)

Arabic 

‏من (from, of, who, whoever, whom, whosoever), ‏غير (beyond, budge, but, change, commute, fashion, masquerade, metamorphose, mis, modify, modulate, non, overrun, rehash, renew, reverse, revise, shape, shift, switch, switch over, transfer, transpose, turn, un-), ‏حتى (even, over, pending, till, to, until, unto, whenever, while), ‏على أن (however, though), ‏الا. (various references)

Basque

baino. (various references)

Bulgarian 

когато (as, if, that, until, when), освен (all but, apart from, aside from, bating, beside, beyond, but, except, excepting, exclusive of, in addition to, other, over and above, saving, therewithal), отколкото, от (at, by, ex-, for, from, in, of, off, on, out, out of, over, since, through, to, with), подир (after, afterward, behind, later). (various references)

Catalan

excepte (apart from, but, except, other than). (various references)

Chinese 

比. (various references)

Czech

než (till, until). (various references)

Danish

end. (various references)

Dutch

dan (afterwards, next, subsequently, then). (various references)

Esperanto

ol. (various references)

Faeroese

enn (still, yet). (various references)

Farsi 

نسبت به (Into, Toward), که (Splotch, That, Which, Who), غیراز (Except), تااینکه (Till, Until), تا (Bale, Until, Upto), بجز (Bar, Except). (various references)

Finnish

kuin (as, as if, as though, like). (various references)

French

que (that), de (through). (various references)

Frisian

bûten (abroad, apart from, but, except, other than, out, outside, outside of). (various references)

German

als (as, as if, except, for, how, inasmuch, like, once, qua, such as, when). (various references)

Greek 

από (by, from, of, since). (various references)

Hebrew 

מן (because, from, more than, of, out of, since), יותר מן- (more than, upward of). (various references)

Hungarian

-nél (at, by, on, with), -nál (at, by, on, with), mint (as, as numerous as the sands on the sea-shore, double as long as, have no concern but, his one thought is, how, like, nor, qua, same as, so much as, such as, to be by the way of being sg, to be no better than, to be not so much a writer as a scholar, to be not such a fool as people make out, to earn one's keep, to get on like a house on fire, to lead a dog's life, to live under warmer skies than, to sleep like a log, to sleep like a top). (various references)

Indonesian

daripada (better than, from). (various references)

Irish

ná (do not). (various references)

Italian

che (as, or, such, that, what, whether, which, whichever, who, whom, whoseever), di (about, and, at, by, for, from, in, of, on, since, some, to, with). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

よそ行き (according to, appears like, bell sounding, bitter gourd, company manners, from, going out, of all things, one's best clothes, out of, seedy, shabby, since, to be, to come, to go, tottering, totteringly, unsteady on its feet, weak from old age, with tottering steps, worn-out, wrinkled-up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana