Existing vs Theme - What's the difference?
existing | theme |
That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
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, title= 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 a verb existing
is .As an adjective existing
is that exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.As a noun theme is
theme, topic.existing
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