Element vs Theme - What's the difference?
element | theme |
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
* (Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))
# (label) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
# One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
# (label) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
# (label) One of the objects in a set.
A small part of the whole.
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A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
A short form of heating element, a component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
(label) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags.
* 2011 , Richard Wagner, Creating Web Pages All-in-One For Dummies
A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
A recurring idea; a motif.
(music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
(film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
(computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
(grammar) The stem of a word
(linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb
(linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
(linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme
A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
(computing) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).
As nouns the difference between element and theme
is that element is element (part of a whole) while theme is theme, topic.element
English
(wikipedia element)Noun
(en noun)- The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
- The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.