📖 T — The English dictionary · page 20

thereupon — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Immediately after that; at once.↗ Example: the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the ark-cover that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent;↗ (Torah EXO.31.7, JPS 1917) · Thereupon he tore her to pieces.↗ [291]↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · Thereupon away fled the Beast as before.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore)

therewith — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: With that; along with that, or at the same time.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: With that; along with that, or at the same time.↗ Example: And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, (Torah EXO.30.26, JPS 1917)↗ · That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.22.8, JPS 1917)↗ · As is the sin-offering, so is the guilt-offering; there is one law for them; the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it.↗ (Torah LEV.7.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?↗ (Prophets ISA.10.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Better is little with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure and turmoil therewith.↗ (Writings PRO.15.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Whoso quarrieth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.↗ (Writings ECC.10.9, JPS 1917)↗ · He took his hat and therewith left the room.↗ · "Take this gift, and therewith my thanks."↗ · He began to strip off his clothes, and therewith he dived in.↗ · And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony,↗ (Torah EXO.30.26, JPS 1917) · Here it stands for "spouse."↗ Satan replies, "If this be thy zakon, go hence therewith! to sever a zakon is impossible."↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.22.8, JPS 1917)

thermal — Everyday, meaning 1: Having to do with heat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Made to keep you warm, like thermal socks or a thermal vest.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A rising current of warm air that birds and gliders use to go up.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun, thermals) Warm underclothes worn in very cold weather.↗ Example: Thermal energy flows from hot things to cold things.↗ · Wool is a good thermal insulator.↗ · Wear your thermals when you go skiing.↗ · The eagle circled up on a thermal.↗ · Rotorua has bubbling thermal pools.↗ · Firefighters use thermal cameras to find people in smoke.↗ · My thermal flask keeps soup hot all day.↗

thermometer — Everyday, meaning 1: A thermometer is an instrument that measures temperature — how hot or cold something is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A medical thermometer measures body temperature to check for a fever.↗ Example: The thermometer showed 25 °C in the classroom.↗ · Mum used a thermometer to check if I had a fever.↗ · Put the thermometer in the ice water and wait a minute.↗ · The red liquid in the thermometer rises when it gets warmer.↗ · Water boils at 100 °C on the thermometer at sea level.↗ · Our class thermometer outside the window read minus 3 degrees.↗ · Read the scale at eye level for an accurate reading.↗ · Then, when it was so cold that it could not manage to be any colder without breaking the thermometer, it stopped.↗

thermos — Everyday, meaning 1: A thermos is a special bottle or flask with two walls and a gap between them that keeps hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold for a long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is also called a vacuum flask or a flask.↗ Example: Dad brought a thermos of hot cocoa to the football match.↗ · My soup stayed hot all morning in the thermos.↗ · A thermos keeps cold drinks cold too.↗ · Be careful when you open the thermos — the steam is hot.↗ · We learnt how a thermos stops heat escaping.↗ · In the UK, people often just call it a flask.↗

thermostat — Everyday, meaning 1: A thermostat is a device that keeps a room, oven, fridge or machine at a set temperature by switching heating or cooling on and off.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The dial or screen you use to set that temperature is also called the thermostat.↗ Example: Dad turned the thermostat down to save energy.↗ · The thermostat switches the heating on when it gets cold.↗ · The oven's thermostat keeps it at 180 degrees.↗ · Set the thermostat to 20 degrees.↗ · A thermostat in the fish tank keeps the water warm.↗ · If the temperature drops below 18, the thermostat turns the heater on.↗

theropod — Everyday, meaning 1: A theropod is a member of a large group of dinosaurs that walked on two legs, mostly meat-eaters, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor and Allosaurus.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Birds are living theropods: scientists say birds evolved from small feathered theropod dinosaurs.↗ Example: T. rex was a huge theropod.↗ · Theropods walked on two legs.↗ · Many theropods had feathers.↗ · Scientists say birds are living theropod dinosaurs.↗ · The fossil footprints had three toes, so they were made by a theropod.↗ · Velociraptor was a theropod about the size of a turkey.↗

thesaurus — Everyday, meaning 1: A thesaurus is a book or website that lists words grouped with others of similar meaning (synonyms), and sometimes opposite meaning (antonyms).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: You use it to find a better or more exact word.↗ Example: I used a thesaurus to find another word for «big».↗ · The thesaurus gave «enormous», «huge» and «gigantic».↗ · Check the meaning in a dictionary before using a word from the thesaurus.↗ · My thesaurus lists antonyms too.↗ · Instead of «nice», the thesaurus suggested «kind», «pleasant» and «lovely».↗ · The class shared one thesaurus per table.↗ · A dinosaur called «Thesaurus» is a common classroom joke.↗

thesis — Everyday, meaning 1: A thesis is a long piece of writing based on research, written for a university degree, such as a PhD.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A thesis is the main idea or claim that a writer or speaker wants to prove: «My thesis is that school should start later».↗ Example: My big sister is writing her thesis on bees.↗ · Your thesis statement should come at the start of your essay.↗ · His thesis is that dinosaurs were warm-blooded.↗ · She spent three years on her PhD thesis.↗ · The writer gives three reasons to support her thesis.↗ · The professor read hundreds of theses.↗ · Magazines and periodicals are respectfully requested to serid copies of their reviews of this thesis to the author, P. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The present thesis appeared in the JEWISH QUATERLY REVIEW new series for April 1912 vol 11, and for April 1913 vol. 111.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The key to the complete identification of the philosophy of Pythagoras with that of the Sefer Yetzira as interpreted in this thesis is the Zero.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

they — Everyday, meaning 1: They means the people or things already named, more than one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: They can mean people in general: «They say it will rain».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: They can also be used for one person when you do not know or do not say if the person is a boy or a girl.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (casual) «They» can mean the people in charge: «They're closing the pool».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual, nonstandard) «They» is said for «there» or «their» in some speech: «they was», «they got» (UK, US South); «they're» is often typed «there».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (formal) Exams avoid «they» and repeat the noun or say «the said persons», «the aforementioned pupils».↗ Example: Tom and Mia have 5 apples each.↗ How many do they have in all?↗ · They share 12 cookies equally.↗ · My grandparents live far away, but they visit at Christmas.↗ · The ducks swam over, and we fed them.↗ · Someone left their bag on the bus.↗ · They say the new park opens soon.↗ · The twins did it all by themselves.↗ · They reckon the bus'll be 10 minutes late.↗ · They was gonna come but they never (nonstandard).↗ · They can sod off, I'm not giving 'em my chips.↗ · The two pupils, collectively, possess 10 apples.↗ Ascertain the share of each, given equal division.↗ · They're closing the pool for a week.↗ · They complain most who suffer least.↗ · And they brought Joseph into Egypt.↗ (Torah GEN.37.28, JPS 1917)↗ · I am the LORD their God.↗ (Torah EXO.29.46, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Harass the Midianites, and smite them; (Torah NUM.25.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And they went out at noon.↗ (Prophets 1KI.20.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the king hearkened unto them.↗ (Writings 2CH.24.17, JPS 1917)↗ · So they executed judgment upon Joash.↗ (Writings 2CH.24.24, JPS 1917)↗

thick — Everyday, meaning 1: Thick means having a large distance between its two sides: a thick book, a thick wall.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Thick means growing close together: thick hair, a thick forest.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Thick describes a liquid that does not flow easily: thick soup.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Thick fog or smoke is hard to see through.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Informally, thick means slow to understand (rude).↗ Example: This dictionary is very thick.↗ · Wear a thick coat in winter.↗ · The soup is too thick; add some water.↗ · Thick fog covered the road.↗ · The forest was thick with trees.↗ · Only skate when the ice is thick enough.↗ · Best friends stick together through thick and thin.↗ · Stay low in thick smoke.↗ · It was a very, very thick trunk.↗ · And the people stood afar off; but Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.↗ (Torah EXO.20.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; (Torah EXO.10.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.↗ (Torah DEU.4.11, JPS 1917)↗ · He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and thick darkness was under His feet.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Then spoke Solomon: The LORD hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.↗ (Prophets 1KI.8.12, JPS 1917)↗ · He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.↗ (Writings JOB.15.26, JPS 1917)↗

thicken — Everyday, meaning 1: To thicken is to become thicker, or to make something thicker.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A liquid that thickens becomes less runny, like sauce or custard.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fog, smoke or a crowd that thickens becomes denser.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «The plot thickens» means a story or situation becomes more mysterious and complicated.↗ Example: Stir the sauce until it thickens.↗ · Add flour to thicken the soup.↗ · The fog thickened and we could not see the road.↗ · The crowd thickened near the stage.↗ · The ice on the pond thickened during the cold night.↗ · Then the missing key turned up in Ben's bag — the plot thickens!↗ · Trees thicken their trunks a little every year.↗

thicket — Everyday, meaning 1: A small group of bushes or trees growing close together, hard to see through.↗ Example: A rabbit hid in the thicket.↗ · They came to a little thicket.↗ · A vixen popped out of the thicket.↗ · And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns.↗ (Torah GEN.22.13, JPS 1917)↗ · It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees.↗ (Writings PSA.74.5, JPS 1917)↗ · In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.↗ (Prophets ISA.21.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.↗ (Prophets ISA.10.34, JPS 1917)↗

thickly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a thick layer or with a large distance from one side to the other: «spread the butter thickly».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Closely together, densely: «thickly wooded hills».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of speech) In a way that is unclear or hoarse, as when someone has a cold or is upset.↗ Example: She spread the peanut butter thickly on the toast.↗ · Snow fell thickly all night.↗ · The hills are thickly covered with trees.↗ · He sliced the cheese thickly.↗ · «I'm sorry,» she said thickly, trying not to cry.↗ · The garden was thickly planted with flowers.↗ · Paint the wall thickly so it covers the old colour.↗ · The ice lay thickly on the lake, as far one could see.↗