Thus vs Already - What's the difference?
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(lb) In this way or manner.
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(lb) As a result.
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Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
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(US) Influenced by (etyl) An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.
As adverbs the difference between thus and already
is that thus is (lb) in this way or manner while already is prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.As a noun thus
is .thus
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) thus, thous, thos, from (etyl) .Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus , by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.}}
Synonyms
* (as a result) as a result, consequently, hence, so, therefore * (in this way) like so, like this, so, this way, thuslyDerived terms
* thusly * thus and so * thus and suchEtymology 2
See thurisNoun
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Adverb
(-)- It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming of its occupant.
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
