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Theme vs Themeless - What's the difference?

theme | themeless |

As a noun theme

is theme, topic.

As an adjective themeless is

without a theme.

theme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * thema * thematic * theme music * theme park * theme song * theme tune

    Verb

    (them)
  • (computing) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

    • themeless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a theme.
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    • , passage=Instead, Korda squeezes Eisenhower’s extraordinary two-term presidency — not to mention his stints as president of Columbia University and commander of NATO forces — into 140 themeless pages. }}

    Synonyms

    * unthemed