Theme vs Thems - What's the difference?
theme | thems |
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).
(Appalachian, colloquial) variant of those .
* 1982 , Terry C. Johnston, Carry the Wind , page 446:
* 2004 , Louis Daniel Bordsky, Nuts to you! , page 25:
* 2008 , Pat Mattaini Mestern, Granite , page 87:
* 2009 , Robert B. Marchand, Caylen's Quest , page 25:
As a noun theme
is a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.As a verb theme
is to apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).As a pronoun thems is
variant of those.theme
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(en noun)Verb
(them)thems
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(English Pronouns)- "Catches in my craw, it does — thems as’ll let others do theys work for ’em, then come in to take what the gettin’s got."
- After all, there's just some things in life a guy can't hope to change, even with the powder o' positive thinkin' that comes from livin' long enough and knowin' that thems' what's got it ain't about to give none of it to ' thems what's not, [...]
- “There’s thems' that ''can'' and '''thems''' that ''can’t''; '''thems''' that ''talk'' and '''thems that ''rant .”
- “Thems' are not called boats, ' thems are canoes.”