This vs Diss - What's the difference?
this | diss |
The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a ... ".
(Of a unit of time) which is .
To the degree or extent indicated.
The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
(philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
* 2001 , James G. Lennox, Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology (page 151)
(Internet slang)
(US, British, slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.
* 1905 , 10 December, The Sunday Times (Perth), "A New Word",
(slang) An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect.
dissertation
As a determiner this
is .As a verb diss is
(us|british|slang) to put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.As a noun diss is
(slang) an insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect.As an abbreviation diss is
dissertation.this
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(wikipedia this)Determiner
Derived terms
* thisness *Adverb
(-)- I need this much water.
- We've already come this far, we can't turn back now.
Pronoun
(en-pron)- This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars'' — Shakespeare, ''King Lear ,
Act 1. Scene 2.
Noun
(es)- Terms like 'house', 'sphere', 'animal', and 'human' do not refer to other thises distinct from these ones here — they refer to the sort of thing these ones here are.
Interjection
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*Anagrams
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*Verb
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- When a journalistic rival tries to "dis " you
And to prejudice you in the public's eyes.
Don't stigmatise his charges as a "tissue
Of palpable, unmitigated lies."