THEM

Definition: THEM

THEM

Pronoun

1. The objective case of they. See They.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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

Tips from 1870

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

ThEm

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Absence of Choice

Phrase: who cares? what difference does it make? "There's not a dime's worth of difference between them.".

Attack

Interjection: "up and at them!"

Discord

Phrase: quot homines tot sententiae; no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites; Mars gravior sub pace latet.

Greatness

Phrase: a maximis ad minima; " greatness knows itself"; " mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed "; minimum decet libere cui multum licet; " some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them ".

Lamentation

Phrase: tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes; eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears; "if you have tears prepare to shed them now"; interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent; "strangled his language in his tears"; "tears such as angels weep".

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! ".

Vice

Phrase: alitur vitium vivitque tegendo; genus est mortis male vivere; mala mens malus animus; nemo repente fuit turpissimus; "the trail of the serpent is over them all"; "to sanction vice and hunt decorum down".

Crosswords: THEM

Albanian (be good at, begin to play, begin to sing, break into a song, call, give voice to, go, impart, know, name, refer, say, speak, talk, tell).

Next time I'll just have to give them a stronger dose (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

You never truly know somebody until you fight them. (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Remember to tell them it was only a bloody game (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

Two of them were killers that never made it past the age of 35. The other is a non-practicing attorney, living within the pain of his past, too afraid to let go, finding reassurance instead of confronting its horror (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Free, free, set them free (If You Love Somebody Set Them Free; performing artist: Sting)

I like them girls in the fly Gucci (I Like Them Girls; performing artist: Tyrese)

Please don't hide them just because of tears (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs)

And pimps be on a mission for them greens (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

And all them dudes that be buggin', I ain't with it (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Believe in miracles, but don't depend on them. (references; author: unknown)

Everyone seems normal until you get to know them. (references; author: unknown)

Events are less important than our response to them. (references; author: unknown)

A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them. (references; author: unknown)

Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- balancing them badly. (references; author: unknown)

Changes... 'Let's Talk About Them!' (1972)

Them (1972)

We Call Them Killers (1972)

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)

The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (performing artist: Sting)

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

Books

• Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, 2003-2004: Who They Are! What They Want! and How to Win Them over (reference)

• Writer's Guide to Hollywood Producers, Directors, and Screenwriter's Agents, 2002-2003: Who They Are! What They Want! And How to Win Them Over! (reference)

• Sustineo alas or, Keep them flying (reference)

• What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All (reference)

• Let Them Anoint the Sick (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Them Days Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Snow White - The Fairest of Them All (reference)

• Them! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• If They Move...Kill Them (reference)

• The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Seen is a lab technician performing a step in the estrogen receptor assay. She is placing some liquid in test vials and inspecting them. In some slides only her hands and the vials are visible. The results of this test indicate whether removal of ovaries or antiestrogen drugs is the likely therapy. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Animal studies are necessary to confirm in vitro results before trials in human beings can be considered. One new approach is to enclose human cancer cells in microscopic capsules and grow them in laboratory-bred mice, which are then treated with a test drug. Credit: Mike Mitchell (photographer).

Pneumoconiosis, or Black Lung Disease, is a job related disease caused by continued exposure to excessive amounts of coal mine dust. This dust becomes imbedded in the lungs, causing them to harden, making breathing very difficult. Credit: CDC.

Computer generated surface view of Gula Mons.For this image, we also have a special treat. Because the vertical scale on theseimages is so exaggerated (a factor of 22.5, remember), we thought you might wantto see what one of them would look like with a more realistic vertical scale.This image ofGula Mons( 8k) has beenaltered to more closely resemble the actual vertical scale. Credit: NASA.

Packing them up in the morning - Montana Triangulation party camp. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Oyster setting tanks at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership, oyster larvae are placed in these tanks for two days, allowing them to set on shells where they stay and continue to grow for the rest of their lives. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Gathering commercial oysters is done chiefly by dredging or tonging. However, in certain areas much harvesting was done by oystermen who gather them by hand at low tide. Credit: Fisheries.

A mountain of oysters. Where spawning conditions are good, oysters in their natural state will attach themselves, one generation atop another, until great ridges of them exist up to high tide. However, such oysters are poor quality and of little commercial value. By spreading them out and giving them room to grow, the quality can be improved. F&W A-6151. Credit: Fisheries.

A picture of the nets used to capture fish before transporting them to their spawning areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The second in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteers collecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers and scientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams to their spawning grounds. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We have also granted to all freemen of our kingdom, for us and our heirs forever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and held by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs forever. (reference)

No body, no power, can exempt them from the obligations of that eternal law. (Second Treatise of Government)

We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. (reference)

But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. (reference)

And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. (reference)

It prescribes, directly for them, a rule of evidence not to be departed from. (reference)

We cannot take from them what they have not got. (reference)

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. (Abraham Lincoln)

They may carry with them their movable property of every description. (reference)

For them all is distorted, all is broken, even ground to pulp. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She disapproved them, which ought to have been enough

I had just time to follow them, before he shut the door again

A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats

Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors, and never invite them round to dinner

The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed

They are all small men, sire, and it would take two of them, one upon the other, to make one of your grenadiers

Begbie always constructed imaginary qualities in his friends, then shamelessly claimed them for himself

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them

All were shouting and the prefects urged them on with strong cries

New messages: END IT ALL was one of them. PUT YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR MISERY

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It tells them to relax. (references)

Let them dry overnight. (references)

If you see any of them, call a doctor. (references)

Business

It is courteous to address them by their titles. (references)

Four hundred of them control 22% of the E-business market. (references)

About 80% of them are small, employing less than 50 people. (references)

Children

India

Not all of them were street children. (references)

Central African Republic

Several charitable organizations strive to assist them. (references)

Greece

Someone posing as their guardian or parent brings them to Greece. (references)

Civil Liberties

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Satellite dishes are popular among those who can afford them. (references)

Suriname

Few of them have chosen to do so, generally for economic reasons. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Children whose parents do not wish them to attend the classes are excused. (references)

Discrimination

Burundi

Hutus continued to perceive, correctly, that the Tutsi-dominated Government and army discriminate against them. (references)

Bhutan

It also committed many abuses against the ethnic Nepalese, which led to the departure of tens of thousands of them. (references)

France

Statutes ban discrimination based on race, religion, sex, ethnic background, or political opinion, and in general the Government effectively enforces them. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Four people died, two of them U.S. nationals. (references)

Poland

A majority of them have already been privatized. (references)

Zimbabwe

Reactions were mixed, but no party rejected them. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

The ICRC was not permitted access to them. (references)

Lebanon

No formal charges were brought against them. (references)

Nepal

Court judges must approve them in felony cases. (references)

Indigenous People

Gabon

The law grants them the same civil rights as other citizens. (references)

Malaysia

The uncertainty surrounding Orang Asli land ownership makes them vulnerable to exploitation. (references)

Finland

Sami receive subsidies to enable them to continue their traditional lifestyle, which revolves around reindeer herding. (references)

Minorities

Turkmenistan

They complain that some avenues for promotion and job advancement are no longer open to them. (references)

Czech Republic

On June 30, four skinheads assaulted a group of Roma in Ostrava, injuring two of them seriously. (references)

Lebanon

Refugees fear that the Government may reduce the size of the camps or eliminate them completely. (references)

Political Economy

Colombia

Since then 15 Colombian nationals have been extradited, most of them on narcotics charges. (references)

TUNISIA

Tunisia is updating its customs regulations to bring them into line with WTO requirements. (references)

Moldova

Prison conditions remained harsh, with attempts to improve them hampered by lack of funding. (references)

Political Rights

Korea

One of them chairs a special committee on women's affairs. (references)

Cameroon

President Biya first promised such elections in 1992, but postponed them twice. (references)

Samoa

Matai control local government through the village fono, which are open to them alone. (references)

Trade

Poland

Commercial code companies can operate them. (references)

Panama

The firm receives its goods and stores them like any other company there. (references)

Australia

This places them in competition with brokerage houses and merchant banks. (references)

Travel

Philippines

SIRV allows them to acquire permanent resident status. (references)

Bulgaria

Visitors should carry their passport with them at all times. (references)

Philippines

When reprimanding employees, take them aside and do it privately. (references)

Women

Saint Kitts and Nevis

It operated three programs for rural women, providing them market skills and training as entrepreneurs. (references)

Congo

Women also are denied custody of their children in divorce cases, but they retain the right to visit them. (references)

Sweden

On average 33 murders of women and girls are reported each year, half of them by men closely related to the victim. (references)

Worker Rights

United Kingdom

Upon arrival their relatives force them into marriage. (references)

Morocco

Traffickers approach their victims by offering them money. (references)

Ethiopia

The employees accused the Authority of not allowing them to organize. (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.

God with them

Fear of them

In them

Like to them

The fleece of them

Woe to them

The effusion of them

God with them

Who conducts them

A wild ass of them

Wearing them out

Who conducts them

Who conducts them

Expressions using "THEM": a good many of them ♦ about them ♦ all of them ♦ among them ♦ among them but not of them ♦ amongst them ♦ behind them ♦ between them ♦ both of them ♦ come between them ♦ daddy of them all ♦ do smth. them ♦ do smth. to them ♦ each one of them ♦ either of them ♦ for The Rest Of Them ♦ give them my love! ♦ how many of them ♦ hundreds of them ♦ i managed to get them agree ♦ i won't stand between them ♦ in them ♦ in with them ♦ it's them ♦ leave them alone! ♦ many of them ♦ neither of them ♦ neither of them has come ♦ never do to others what you would not have them do to ♦ none of them ♦ of them ♦ one of them ♦ put them up! ♦ stick them up! ♦ tell them apart ♦ the daddy of them all ♦ the three of them ♦ they don't make them any better! ♦ three of them ♦ to them ♦ us and them. Additional references.

Beginning with "THEM": them-although, them-and-us, them-fanny, them-it, them-'murrells, them-not, them-perhaps, them-selves, them-slowing, them-the, them-they.

Ending with "THEM": us-them.

Containing "THEM": bring-them-down, How-to-stop-them-laughing-on-the-beach, leave-them-alone, telling-them-to-go, thanks-for-putting-up-with-them-and-that-wasn't-too-bad-was-it, to-hell-with-them-all.

Afrikaans

hulle (her, his, its, their, they, to, to them), dit (it, that, that over there, these, this, this here, those). (various references)

Albanian

atyre, ato (that, that over there, they, those), ata (that, that over there, they, those). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هم (care, concern, matter, reck, solicitude, their, they, those, trouble, worry), ‏هن (their, they, this, those). (various references)

Basque

ditudala (that I have them). (various references)

Breton

o, anezho. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тях, тези (these, those), онези (those), им. (various references)

Chinese 

她們 (they), 他们 (Their, They). (various references)

Czech

je (is, it is, she is). (various references)

Danish

dem (you, you formal). (various references)

Dutch

ze (one, she, they, you). (various references)

Esperanto

ilin. (various references)

Estonian

need (these, these/those). (various references)

Farsi 

ایشان را, بایشان , بانها. (various references)

Finnish

ne (they), heitä, heidät. (various references)

Flemish

ze (it, she, they). (various references)

French

leur (their, to them), les (the), elles (they, those). (various references)

French Canadian

les (the). (various references)

Galician

os (the). (various references)

German

sie (her, it, she, they, thou, ye, you), ihnen (thou, to them, to you, ye, you). (various references)

Greek 

αυτές (these, they), αυτά (these, they), αυτούσ, αυτούς, αθτούς, τουσ (their). (various references)

Haitian Creole

yo (the, they). (various references)

Hebrew 

להן (to them), להם (to them), איתם, אותן (those), אותם (those), הן (they), הם (they). (various references)

Hungarian

nekik, azokat (those), õket. (various references)

Icelandic

þeim (they). (various references)

Indonesian

mereka (their, they). (various references)

Irish

iad (they). (various references)

Italian

loro (their, theirs, themselves, they, ye, you, your, yours), li (at, at that place, over there, there, yon, yonder), le (it, the, to you, ye, you), essi (they). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

賃餅 (rice cakes made after the customer has paid for them), 諸賢 (gentlemen, various wise individuals, you or them), 諸氏 (you or them), 諸子 (Chinese sages or their works, gentlemen, you, you or them), 積ん読 (buying books and not reading them), 全部ではない迄も (though all of them may not be included), 一浪 (failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later), 丸洗い (washing kimonos without taking them apart), 寝押し (pressing clothes by placing them under the bedding while one sleeps). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜんぶではないまでも (though all of them may not be included), ねおし (pressing clothes by placing them under the bedding while one sleeps), しょけん (first sight, gentlemen, opinion, reading, seeing for the first time, various wise individuals, view, you or them), しょし (bibliography, bookstore, Chinese sages or their works, gentlemen, illegitimate child, opinions, original intention, thoughts, you, you ladies, you or them), まるあらい (washing kimonos without taking them apart), つんどく (buying books and not reading them), いちろう (failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later), ちんもち (rice cakes made after the customer has paid for them). (various references)

Korean 

그들 (Their, They, Those). (various references)

Luganda

bonna (all of them). (various references)

Luxembourgish

se (they). (various references)

Manx

adsyn (themselves, they, they emphatic), ad (they). (various references)

Norwegian

dem (you), de 1 (they). (various references)

Pidgin English

dem. (various references)

Pig Latin

emthay.(various references)

Portuguese

os (the, ye, you), eles (they), as (the, to the, ye). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

os (the). (various references)

Romanian

pe ele, pe el, lor (their), li, el (he, it). (various references)

Russian 

их (their, theirs), им (to them). (various references)

Scottish

iad (they). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

njih, im, ih. (various references)

Slovene

jih. (various references)

Sotho

di (they, they are). (various references)

Spanish

ellos (they), los (the, the ones, ye), les (to you, you). (various references)

Swahili

wao (they). (various references)

Swedish

dem (those). (various references)

Thai

พวกเขา (รูปกรรมของ they). (various references)

Turkish

onları, onlara (to them), onlar (they, those). (various references)

Ukrainian

їх (their, theirs), їм, себе (herself, him, himself, itself, myself, oneself, ourself, ourselves, themselves, thyself, us, yourself, yourselves). (various references)

Vietnamese 

họ (family name, surname), chúng nó (they), chúng (they). (various references)

Welsh

nhw (their, they), hwynt (they). (various references)

Wolof

ñoom. (various references)

Xhosa

bonke (All of them). (various references)

adid, agareos, cineos, ea, eam, earum, eas, ehi, ei, eique, eis, eisque, eius, eiusmodi, eiusque, eo, eorum, eos, eosque, eum, eumque, heae, id, iessui, is, isque, maseas, sara, saria, se, secum, semet, seque, sibi, sibimet, sui. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "THEM": thematic, thematically, thematics, theme, themed, themes, theming, themselves. (additional references)

Words ending with "THEM": anthem, apothem, exanthem. (additional references)

Words containing "THEM": anathema, anathemas, anathemata, anathematize, anathematized, anathematizes, anathematizing, anthemed, anthemia, antheming, anthemion, anthems, apothems, biomathematical, biomathematician, biomathematicians, biomathematics, chrysanthemum, chrysanthemums, erythema, erythemas, erythematous, exanthema, exanthemas, exanthemata, exanthematic, exanthematous, exanthems, lithemia, lithemias, lithemic, mathematic, mathematical, mathematically, mathematician, mathematicians, mathematics, mathematization, mathematizations, mathematize, mathematized, mathematizes, mathematizing, mesembryanthemum, mesembryanthemums, metamathematical, metamathematics, methemoglobin, methemoglobinemia, methemoglobinemias, methemoglobins. (additional references)

Misspellings

"THEM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: athem, athema, athen, Ehem, ethen, ghem, htm, htmet, Otham, Othen, phem, rhem, temm, thaim, tham, thaum, theam, thec, thed, theen, thef, theg, thegm, thei, thek, thema, thenx, theo, thep, therm, thet, thex, thge, thi, thiem, thien, thim, thimb, thiq, thism, thiv, thix, thok, thom, thren, thum, thwe, thym, thymy, tiem, Tihama, tlem, toem, trem, tse, Tyen, tyhems. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: meth.

-1 letter: eth, hem, het, met, the.

-2 letters: eh, em, et, he, hm, me.

+1 letter: meths, theme, therm, thyme.

+2 letters: anthem, cometh, hamate, hamlet, helmet, hermit, hetman, humate, method, methyl, mither, mother, tempeh, theism, themed, themes, therme, therms, thymes, thymey.

+3 letters: anthems, apothem, atheism, bethump, chemist, chetrum, ecthyma, empathy, ethmoid, hamates, hamlets, hamster, helmets, hematal, hematic, hematin, hermits, hetmans, homiest, humates, hutment, machete, manchet, matched, matcher, matches, megahit, menthol, methane, methods, methoxy, methyls, mithers, mothers, mothery, mothier, mouthed, mouther, murther, mutches, mythier, nymphet, rematch, smother, tempehs, teraohm, theisms, theming, theorem, thermae, thermal, thermel, thermes, thermic, thermos, thimble, thumbed, thumped, thumper, thymier, thymine, vermuth.