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Definition: THESE |
THESEPlural1. Of This Pronoun1. The plural of this. See This. |
Date "THESE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: These, Those. When objects near and remote are referred to, this and its plural these are applied to the objects near at hand, that and its plural those to objects at a distance. When reference is made to contrasted antecedent terms, this and these are applied to the latter; that and those to the former, as "Farewell my friends! farewell my foes! My peace with these, my love with those!" Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Phrase: this is to give notice, these are to give notice; dictum sapienti sat est; finem respice. |
Correspondence | Noun: correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty, letter card, picture post card; postal, card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription; post; (messenger). |
Futurity | Adverb: prospectively, hereafter, in future; kal, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow; in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of time; eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo; paulo post futurum; in after time; one of these days; after a time, after a while. |
Publication | Phrase: notice is hereby given; this is to give, these are to give notice; nomina stultorum parietibus haerent; semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum. |
The Present Time | When; whenever, whensoever; upon which, on which occasion; at another, at a different, at some other, at any- time; at various times; some one of these days, one of these days, one fine morning; eventually, some day, by and by, sooner or later; some time or other; once upon a time. |
Noun: the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour. | |
Writing | Writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae; these presents. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: THESE |
| Specialty definitions using "THESE": These kind. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "THESE": tobacco. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "THESE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (essay, hypothesis, statement, theory, thesis). |
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Screenplays | Once you have frozen mankind, these babies will overrun the globe, and we shall rule them, for we will be the only two people left in the world (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) These silly writers let their imaginations run away with them (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) These tracks are just a few days old. (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) They'll print anything these days (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) I better have my lawyer look these over (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) | |
Lyrics | Get 'ya baby one of these nights (One Of These Nights; performing artist: Eagles) Cause these are the days, when all that i can do is dream (These Are the Days; performing artist: O-Town) These eyes are cryin’ (These Eyes; performing artist: The Guess Who) Let me have a look inside these eyes while I'm learning (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs) Oh, no you'll never get me up in one of these again (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC) | |
Clever | France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. (references; author: Mark Twain) Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these is: It might have been. (references; author: unknown) Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days, no one talks about seeing UFOs like they use to. (references; author: unknown) Be tender to the young, compassionate to the aged, tolerant with the weak; for in your life you will be all of these. (references; author: unknown) If you think you're getting too much government these days, just be happy that you're not getting all you are paying for. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) From These Roots (1974) Within These Walls (1974) These Are the Days (1974) With These Hands (1970) | |
Song Titles | These Boots Are Made for Walkin' (performing artist: The Fixx) These Dreams (performing artist: Heart) Come And Get These Memories (performing artist: Martha and The Vandellas) These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (performing artist: Nancy Sinatra) These Are The Days (performing artist: O-Town) | |
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 | A group of scientists (1 woman and 3 men) gather around a microscope to examine a tissue culture flask. These 4 scientists were featured in NCI's "Driving Forces" video. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Two young women can be seen behind some plant leaves. They seem to be picking some berries on a sunny day. These women are members of a larger Mormon family who are being studied for their low rate of cancer deaths. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | N. gonorrhoeae, a gram-negative diplococcus, is the causative agent for Gonorrhea. These bacteria can infect the genital tract, the mouth, and the rectum. Credit: CDC. |  | A distinguishing characteristic of biofilms is the presence of extracellular polymeric substances, primarily polysaccharides, surrounding and encasing the cells. Here, these polysaccharides have been visualized by scanning electron microscopy. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Tetrahedron" by Владимир Смирнов (Vladimir Smirnov). These platonic solids illustrate a clever use of the absolute value function. |  | Most of the eastern U.S. was cloud free October 11. Such widespread cloudlessness in this part of the world is rare. These clear skies are associated with a region of high pressure over the eastern central U.S. Credit: NASA. |
 | While hunting for volcanic plumes on Io, the Hubble telescope captured these images of the ... Credit: NASA. |  | These images of Comet P/Shoemaker- Levy 9 (1993e) fragments were made by NASA's Hubble Space ... Credit: NASA. |
 | This mosaic, also by the Mariner 10 spacecraft on the 29 March 1974, was taken whileit retreated from the planet. Again consisting of 18 images, these images show somewhatmore of the illuminated surface. Credit: NASA. |  | Huge fires on the island of Borneo on 1997 September 22 05:10 UT, asviewed by the NOAA-14 Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES). The image is based on Global AreaCoverage (GAC) data at 4km resolution. More images of these fires areavailable from the Centre for RemoteImaging, Sensing and Processing at the National University of Singapore. Credit: NASA. |
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| "I cant cry these tears anymore" by Filip Schneider Commentary: "At the edge." | "I Don't Know These People" by Kelly Abbott Commentary: "It was a party." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Dante (Alighieri) | These have not the hope to die. |
Gaius Valerius Catullus | But these things are past and gone. |
John Milton | These are thy glorious works, Parent of good. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | What fools these mortals be. |
Quintus Septimius Tertullian | See how these Christians love another. |
Samuel Butler | These reasons made his mouth to water. |
Virgil | Arise from my bones, avenger of these wrongs! |
William Shakespeare | Lord, what fools these mortals be. |
| Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | An oath, moreover, has been taken, as well on our part as on the art of the barons, that all these conditions aforesaid shall be kept in good faith and without evil intent. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | His words are these. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | These proposals, therefore, are of a purely Utopian character. (reference) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. (The Gettysburg Address) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany must keep these areas free from mines. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | To give security to these countless homes, they must be shielded from the two giant marauders, war and tyranny. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | These cases come to us from the States of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Emma saw how Mr. Weston understood these joyous prospects |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | With these words he moved away, and began giving orders to the men, who were preparing to hoist the jib. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | When it had said these words, the spectre took its wrapper from the table, and bound it round its head, as before |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | These perceptions have come too late |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These gaieties of a giant are worthy of remembrance |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Find these and you find the qualities of universal beauty |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Cannot my Lord Stanley sleep these tedious nights |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | These men work carefully and endlessly to perfect the seed, the roots |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use these less often. (references) | |
Yes. Follow these guidelines. (references) | ||
These images are called CT scans. (references) | ||
Business | Polish law lacks these controls. (references) | |
Both of these are common in Denmark. (references) | ||
These lists are compiled by Gosstandart. (references) | ||
Children | Kenya | These are a heavy burden on most families. (references) |
Dominica | Of these cases, 162 involved sexual abuse. (references) | |
Indonesia | These schools accept children from throughout the country. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | The SBU denied these charges. (references) |
China | Authorities have denied these reports. (references) | |
Czech Republic | The police closely monitored these concerts. (references) | |
Discrimination | Zambia | A legal challenge to these amendments in 1996 was unsuccessful. (references) |
Madagascar | No specific government institutions are designated to enforce these antidiscrimination provisions. (references) | |
Mexico | The consensus among gay rights groups is that the police fail to investigate these crimes seriously. (references) | |
Economic History | Chad | Neither of these goals was achieved. (references) |
Australia | These clauses are upheld by the courts. (references) | |
Spain | The largest of these companies is CASA. (references) | |
Human Rights | Estonia | Police rarely violated these limits. (references) |
Honduras | No one was arrested in any of these cases. (references) | |
United Kingdom | Several persons were injured in these attacks. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Colombia | INCORA reports that approximately 80 percent of these lands have been demarcated. (references) |
Suriname | Mercury runoff from these operations also contaminates and threatens traditional food source areas. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Under a pilot program, Veddas received special identity cards to enable their use of these forest areas. (references) | |
Minorities | Macedonia | The Framework Agreement reaffirms these rights. (references) |
Slovak Republic | The Roma were the most frequent targets of these attacks. (references) | |
Poland | No arrests or prosecutions took place after any of these events. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | SAF denied these allegations. (references) |
EL SALVADOR | These too are being deregulated. (references) | |
AUSTRIA | So far, progress in all these areas is limited. (references) | |
Political Rights | Yemen | Central government authority in these areas often is weak. (references) |
Bhutan | These elections are conducted in much the same way as National Assembly elections. (references) | |
Togo | Turnout was below the levels reflected in official results for most of these locations. (references) | |
Trade | Costa Rica | These terms can be renewed. (references) |
Venezuela | These stickers must also identify the importer. (references) | |
Burma | MEHL appears to have a monopoly of these permits. (references) | |
Travel | Romania | These should be avoided. (references) |
Oman | These dates are approximate. (references) | |
Colombia | Hotels may also render these services. (references) | |
Women | Taiwan | The committee also works with NGO's on these issues. (references) |
Malaysia | Women activists assert that these problems continue. (references) | |
Sweden | The equal opportunity Ombudsman reviews these plans. (references) | |
Worker Rights | East Timor | These unions were weak, but active. (references) |
Belize | However, several of these unions are inactive. (references) | |
Cyprus | Labor inspectors effectively enforce these laws. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or by nature. This latter is commonly designated as folk-lore and embraces popularly myths and superstitions. In Baring-Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages the reader will find many of these traced backward, through various people son converging lines, toward a common origin in remote antiquity. Among these are the fables of "Teddy the Giant Killer," "The Sleeping John Sharp Williams," "Little Red Riding Hood and the Sugar Trust," "Beauty and the Brisbane," "The Seven Aldermen of Ephesus," "Rip Van Fairbanks," and so forth. The fable with Goethe so affectingly relates under the title of "The Erl- King" was known two thousand years ago in Greece as "The Demos and the Infant Industry." One of the most general and ancient of these myths is that Arabian tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Rockefellers." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "THESE" is generally used as a determiner (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "THESE" is used about 125,311 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Determiner (general) | 100% | 125,309 | 79 |
| Total | 100.00% | 125,311 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "THESE": among these ♦ given these circumstances ♦ in the light of these circumstances ♦ in these days ♦ in these latter days ♦ on these terms ♦ one of these days ♦ pending these negotiations ♦ these are to give notice ♦ these days ♦ these gentry ♦ these ones ♦ these pages ♦ these presents ♦ these spoons are going ♦ these trees bear no fruit ♦ under these circumstances ♦ under these conditions ♦ within these walls. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "THESE": these-may, these-memorable, these-spells, these-uninsulated. | |
Ending with "THESE": block-these, consider-these, facts-these, jointly-these, occurred-these, oil-these. | |
Containing "THESE": whatever-it-is-these-days. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "THESE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hierdie (this), dit hierdie (this, this here), dit (it, that, that over there, them, this, this here, those). (various references) | |
Albanian | këto (this, this here, those), këta (this, this here, those). (various references) | |
Arabic | هي (it, its, she), هؤلاء (those), اولاء. (various references) | |
Basque | hauek. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тези (them, those). (various references) | |
Catalan | aquestes, aquesta (this, this here). (various references) | |
Chinese | 這些 , 這 (this), 这些 (Those), 此 (this). (various references) | |
Czech | tyto (this), tito (this). (various references) | |
Danish | disse. (various references) | |
Dutch | dit hier (this, this here), dit (this, this here), deze (this, this one). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tiujn, tiuj ĉi, tio ĉi (this, this here), ĉi tiuj, ĉi tio (this, this here). (various references) | |
Estonian | need (them, these/those). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hetta (bonnet, cap, cowl, hood, this, this here). (various references) | |
Farsi | اینها, اینان . (various references) | |
Finnish | nämä. (various references) | |
Flemish | deze (this). (various references) | |
French | ces (that, these/those, this, those), ceci (this, this here). (various references) | |
French Canadian | ces. (various references) | |
Frisian | dit (that, that over there, this, this here, those). (various references) | |
Galician | estas. (various references) | |
German | Diese (them, this, those). (various references) | |
Greek | αυτοί (they). (various references) | |
Guarani | ko'ã. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | ky (this, this here), kjo (this, this here), këto (this, this here), këta (this, this here). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אלה (those). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ezek. (various references) | |
Irish | seo (here, this, This is). (various references) | |
Italian | questi (that, this, this one, those), queste. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 此れ等 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | これら. (various references) | |
Korean | 이들. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | dës (this). (various references) | |
Malay | sekarang (currently, nowadays, these days), dewasa ini (currently, nowadays, these days). (various references) | |
Manx | ad shoh (those here). (various references) | |
Norwegian | disse. (various references) | |
Papiamen | awor (at present, currently, now, nowadays, these days), awendía (currently, nowadays, these days). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | esethay.(various references) | |
Polish | to (accordingly, consequently, it, so, then, therefore, this, this here). (various references) | |
Portuguese | estes, estas. (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | estas, destas. (various references) | |
Romanian | aceste (those). (various references) | |
Russian | эти (those), они этот, мн. ч. от this. (various references) | |
Scottish | seo (behold, here, here are, here is, here you are, look, this, this here, this is). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | množina od this. (various references) | |
Slovene | tele, le (just, only). (various references) | |
Somali | waxyaabahan (these things). (various references) | |
Spanish | estos, estas (that, this, this one, those), esta (it is, this, this here, this one). (various references) | |
Sranan | den ... disi. (various references) | |
Swahili | hivi (approximately). (various references) | |
Swedish | dessa (them, they, those). (various references) | |
Tagalog | ito (it, this). (various references) | |
Turkish | bunlar. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ці. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | như thế này (this). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhain, hyn (that, this). (various references) | |
Zulu | okwamanje (currently, nowadays, these days). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abrahae, ec, hac, hae, haec, haecine, hanc, harum, has, hi, hic, hicine, hii, his, hoc, horum, hos, huic, huius, huiuscemodi, huiusmodi, hunc, marthae. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 24, Verse 44 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eipen de autoiV outoi oi logoi ouV elalhsa proV umaV eti wn sun umin oti dei plhrwqhnai panta ta gegrammena en tw nomw mwsewV kai profhtaiV kai yalmoiV peri emou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et dixit ad eos haec sunt verba quae locutus sum ad vos cum adhuc essem vobiscum quoniam necesse est impleri omnia quae scripta sunt in lege Mosi et prophetis et psalmis de me |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And cwæð to him; þis synt þa word þe ic spæc to eow þa ic wæs þa gyt mid eow forþam þe hit is neod þæt beon ealle þing gefyllede þe be me awritene synt on moyses æ. and on witegum and on sealmum be me; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And seide `to hem, These ben the wordis that Y spak to you, whanne Y was yit with you; for it is nede that alle thingis ben fulfillid, that ben writun in the lawe of Moises, and in prophetis, and in salmes, of me. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he sayde vnto the. These are the wordes which I spake vnto you whyll I was yet with you: that all must be fulfilled which were written of me in the lawe of Moses and in the Prophetes and in the Psalmes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect. |
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