Thesis

Definition: Thesis

Thesis

Noun

1. An unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument.

2. A treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree.

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

Date "thesis" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Etymology: Thesis \The"sis\, noun; plural Theses. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from to place, set. See Do, and compare to Anathema, Apothecary, Epithet, Hypothesis, Parenthesis, Theme, Tick cover.]. (references)

General

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THESIS

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Synonym: Thesis

Contrariety

Phrase: " all concord's born of contraries ". Thesis,Phrase: " all concord's born of contraries ". Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

Dissertation

Noun: dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis, theme; monograph, tract, tractate, tractation; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect; excursus.

Idea

Subject, subject matter; matter, theme, gr/noemata/gr, topic, what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument; motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field of inquiry; moot point, problem; (question).

Supposition

Noun: supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition, position; proposal; (plan); presumption; (belief); divination.

Crosswords: Thesis

Dutch (essay, thesis), Latin (essay, proposition, thesis, unaccented syllable in poetry).

We shall test your thesis, Raziel (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

I'm in the midst of doing my thesis. (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Lavete Thesis (1973)

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Books

• Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) (reference)

• Arsis, thesis, ictvs : las marcas del ritmo en la mâusica y en la mâetrica antiguas (reference)

• Joint determination of trade, production, and financial flows in the multinational firm assuming risky currency exchange rates : a two-stage linear programming model building approach : a doctoral thesis in management (reference)

• A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth (reference)

• Arco How to Write a Thesis (How to Write a Thesis, 4th Ed) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Thesis (reference)

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Music

• Best Thesis for a Suicide Note (reference)

• Synth Thesis (reference)

• The Fall of Atom: A Thesis on Entropy (reference)

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R.P. Mouton defending his doctorate thesis. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr..

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Health

Evidence to support this thesis was provided by Coral Lamartiniere, professor of pharmacology and toxicology and director of the graduate training program in toxicology at the University of Alabama, who showed that genistein, an isoflavone phytoestrogen, protects against chemically induced mammary cancer in an animal model. (references)

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Expressions using "thesis": doctoral thesis ♦ principal thesis. Additional references.

Beginning with "thesis": thesis-antithesis-synthesis, thesis-based, thesis-derived, thesis-entry, thesis-related.

Ending with "thesis": anti-thesis, counter-thesis, mini-thesis.

Afrikaans

stelling (essay). (various references)

Albanian

tezë (dissertation, idea, opinion), punë diplome. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرضية (guess-work, hypothesis, postulate, supposition), ‏الطريحة, ‏أطروحة (dissertation). (various references)

Bulgarian 

теза (argumentation, paper), тезис, дисертация (disquisition, dissertation, paper). (various references)

Chinese 

论文 (Theses, treatise), 論點 (argument, line of reasoning, point), 論文 (paper, treatise). (various references)

Czech

tvrzení (affirmation, allegation, assertion, claim, contention, predicament, predication, proposition, say so, statement), teze, disertaèní práce (dissertation), diplomová práce (dissertation). (various references)

Danish

doktorafhandling (dissertation, doctoral dissertation, doctoral thesis), dissertation (dissertation), disputats (dissertation, doctoral dissertation), afhandling (dissertation, treatise). (various references)

Dutch

proefschrift (essay), dissertatie (essay), stelling (essay, sentence, theorem). (various references)

Esperanto

tezo (essay). (various references)

Faeroese

viðvera (essay). (various references)

Farsi 

فرض (Assumption, Duty, Guess, Hypothesis, If, Liability, Posit, Presumption, Supposition), پایان نامه (Dissertation), قضیه (Case, Clause, Proposition, Theorem), رساله دکتری . (various references)

Finnish

väitelmä (proposition), opinnäyte (dissertation). (various references)

French

thèse (theory). (various references)

German

These (essay, hypothesis, statement, theory), dissertation (dissertation). (various references)

Greek 

διατριβή (dissertation, sojourn, treatise). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחקר (recess, research, search, study), תז�", עבו�"ת �"וקטורט (doctorate), כשור (qualification, qualifications, rehabilitation), �"רוש (address, homily, lecture, needful, required, requisite, sermon, speech), � ושא (boom, motif, subject, theme, topic). (various references)

Hungarian

tézis, tétel (annunciation, clearance, heading, item, lot, movement, sentence, setting, theme, theorem), diplomaterv (degree work, diploma work), diplomamunka (degree work, diploma work), diploma (award, college certificate, diploma, diploma in sg). (various references)

Indonesian

merangkumkan (wrap up (argument), disertasi (dissertation). (various references)

Italian

tesi (dissertation, doctoral dissertation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

論文　 (essay, paper, treatise), 論文 (essay, paper, treatise), ツェツェ� � (short speech at a dinner, statement, table, table center, table charge, table cloth, table cover, table manners, table talk, table tennis, table top, table wine, tablespoon, take back, takeaway, take-off, takeout, take-over, take-over bid, take-over zone, tape, taper, taping, taste, thulium, tree, tsetse fly, tuna, Tutankamen, two-handed sword), 定立 , 命題 (proposition), 学位論文 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がくいろ�"ぶ�", テーゼ (statement), めい� い (Meiji University, Nagoya University, proposition), ろ�"ぶ�" (essay, paper, treatise), ていりつ (fixed law, fixed rate, low rate, three-cornered contest, triangular position). (various references)

Korean 

논� � (Theses). (various references)

Manx

kione argane. (various references)

Pig Latin

esisthay.(various references)

Portuguese

tese de doutoramento (dissertation, doctoral dissertation, doctoral thesis), tese (act, essay, question), ensaio (assay, audition, essay, experiment, rehearsal, test, testing, trial), dissertação (discourse, dissertation, essay, excursus, reasoning, theme, tractate, treatise). (various references)

Romanian

tezã (argument, dissertation, paper, script), disertaţie (disquisition, dissertation, theme). (various references)

Russian 

тезис;диссертация (theses), тезис, диссертация (dissertation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

teza (theses), temat, rasprava (argument, disagreement, discussion, disputation, dispute, polemic, question, tract, treatise, wrangle). (various references)

Spanish

tesis (dissertation). (various references)

Swedish

tes, avhandling (discourse, disquisition, dissertation, treatise). (various references)

Turkish

tez (discourse, disquisition, dissertation, expeditious, hasty, nimble, prompt, promptly, quick, quickly, treatise), vurgulu hece, sav (allegation, assertion, contention, position, pretension, proposition), önerme (proposal, proposition, suggestion, vote). (various references)

Turkmen 

eser (composition, written work). (various references)

Ukrainian

теза, положення (lay, position, provision), дисертація. (various references)

Welsh

gosodiad (proposition). (various references)

thesis. (various references)

thesis. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "thesis": anthesis, antithesis, biosynthesis, chemosynthesis, counterhypothesis, diathesis, epenthesis, esthesis, hypothesis, kinesthesis, metathesis, nucleosynthesis, parasynthesis, parenthesis, photosynthesis, prosthesis, prothesis, psychosynthesis, resynthesis, synaesthesis, synthesis. (additional references)

Words containing "thesis": esthesises, synthesist, synthesists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Thesis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hesis, ktesias, tehsis, thass, theios, theis, theise, theisis, theisus, Theix, thesees, theseus, thesi, thespis, thess, thessis, thesys, thisis, thsis, Thysia, toesie, Tresise. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: heists, shiest.

-1 letter: heist, hests, hists, shies, shist, sites, sties.

-2 letters: eths, hest, hets, hies, hiss, hist, hits, seis, sets, shes, site, sith, sits, this, ties.

-3 letters: ess, eth, hes, het, hie, his, hit, its, sei, set, she, sis, sit, the, tie, tis.

-4 letters: eh, es, et, he, hi, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: ashiest, hessite, hitless, sithens, theisms, theists, tushies.

+2 letters: anthesis, atheisms, atheists, bhisties, bushiest, chastise, chemists, chintses, cushiest, dashiest, dishiest, esthesia, esthesis, fetishes, fishiest, fishnets, gushiest, hastiest, heisters, heliasts, hessites, hiatuses, hiltless, hipsters, histones, hoisters, horsiest, hostiles, housesit, huskiest, hygeists, isohyets, kitsches, meshiest, mushiest, phthises, pithless, pushiest, resights, rushiest, shadiest, shakiest, shaliest, shanties, sheitans, shelties, shifters, shiniest, shorties, showiest, sighters, sightsee, sleights, slithers, smithers, smithies, snitches, staithes, steepish, sthenias, stitches, stithies, sweetish, switches, swithers, thinness, thistles, washiest, whistles.