Theme vs Heme - What's the difference?
theme | heme |
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).
The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen, consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.
* 2008 , John Greer, John Foerster, George Rodgers, Fixos Paraskevas, Bertil Glader, Daniel Arber, Robert Means Jr, Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology: Volume One: Twelfth Edition , page 141:
As nouns the difference between theme and heme
is that theme is theme, topic while heme is heme / haem.theme
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(en noun)Verb
(them)heme
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* haem (British )Noun
- The binding of oxygen to the iron molecule causes the hemoglobin molecule to undergo conformational changes that affect the binding of oxygen to other heme sites.