This vs Then - What's the difference?
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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)
(label) At that time.
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*Bible, (w) xii. 6
*:And the Canaanite was then in the land.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
(label) Soon afterward.
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*Bible, (w) v. 24
*:First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
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, title= (label) Next in order; in addition.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (label) In that case.
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(label) At the same time; on the other hand.
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(label) At the time that; when.
*1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur)'', Book I.23, reprinted 1817, Sir Thomas Malory, (William Caxton), ''Morte d'Arthur: The Byrth, Lyf, and Actes of Kyng Arthur , Volume 1,
*:Than the knyght sawe hym lye soo on the ground, he alyght and was passynge heuy, for he wende he had slayne hym.
Used to contradict an assertion.
*2001 , (Eric Malpass), At the Height of the Moon ,
*:‘She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.’ ¶ ‘They?re not then .’ Emma was getting heated. ‘They?re –’ ¶ ‘Emma!’ said Jenny sharply. The child subsided.
being so at that time
That time
As a determiner this
is .As an adverb then is
(label) at that time.As an adjective then is
being so at that time.As a noun then is
that time.As a conjunction then is
.this
English
(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
(-)Synonyms
* , like * IAWTPStatistics
*Anagrams
* * * * * 100 English basic words English third person pronouns 1000 English basic words ----then
English
Adverb
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then' there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and ' then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then , without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
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Synonyms
* (soon afterward) and then, and so, subsequently, so * (next in order) and thenAdjective
(-)See also
* by then * just then * now and then * there and then * until thenNoun
(head)- It will be finished before then .