Audio Help [stressed th
ee; unstressed before a consonant th
uh; unstressed before a vowel th
ee] Pronunciation Key | 1. | (used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an): the book you gave me; Come into the house. |
| 2. | (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West. |
| 3. | (used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith. |
| 4. | (used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time. |
| 5. | (used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped. |
| 6. | (used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging): He won't be able to play football until the leg mends. |
| 7. | (used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract idea): to visit the sick; from the sublime to the ridiculous. |
| 8. | (used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect): He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way. |
| 9. | (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties. |
| 10. | (one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one): Did you listen to the radio last night? |
| 11. | enough: He saved until he had the money for a new car. She didn't have the courage to leave. |
| 12. | (used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an: at one dollar the pound. |
Audio Help [th
uh] Pronunciation Key: the book, the mountain
Audio Help [th
uh-book, th
uh-moun-tn]. Before a vowel sound it is usually
Audio Help [th
ee], sometimes
Audio Help [th
i]: the apple, the end
Audio Help [th
ee or
th
i-ap-uh
l, th
ee or
th
i-end]. As an emphatic form (“I didn't say a book—I said the book.”) or a citation form (“The word the is a definite article.”), the usual pronunciation is
Audio Help [th
ee], although in both of these uses of the stressed form,
Audio Help [th
ee] is often replaced by
Audio Help [th
uh], especially among younger speakers.| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
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uh; before a vowel th
ee] Pronunciation Key | 1. | (used to modify an adjective or adverb in the comparative degree and to signify “in or by that,” “on that account,” “in or by so much,” or “in some or any degree”): He's been on vacation and looks the better for it. |
| 2. | (used in correlative constructions to modify an adjective or adverb in the comparative degree, in one instance with relative force and in the other with demonstrative force, and signifying “by how much … by so much” or “in what degree … in that degree”): the more the merrier; The bigger they are, the harder they fall. |
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def.art.
[Middle English, from Old English the, alteration (influenced by , th-, oblique case stem of demonstrative pron.) of se, masculine demonstrative pron.; see so- in Indo-European roots.] |
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adv.
[Middle English, from Old English thȳ, thē, instrumental of thæt, neuter demonstrative pron.; see to- in Indo-European roots.] |
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| Masc. | Fem. | Neut. | Plural | |
| Nom. | se | seo | þæt | þa |
| Acc. | þone | þa | þæt | þa |
| Gen. | þæs | þære | þæs | þara |
| Dat. | þæm | þære | þæm | þæm |
| Inst. | þy, þon | -- | þy, þon | -- |
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
the1 [ðə, ði] adjective
Example: Where is the book I put on the table?; Who was the man you were talking to?; My mug is the tall blue one; Switch the light off!
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Example: The horse is running fast.; I spoke to him on the telephone; He plays the piano/violin very well.
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The Woodlands, TX (CDP, FIPS 72656) Location: 30.15767 N, 95.48929 W
Population (1990): 29205 (11389 housing units)
Area: 42.4 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 77380, 77381
The Bluffs, LA Zip code(s): 70748
The Colony, TX (city, FIPS 72530) Location: 33.09094 N, 96.88712 W
Population (1990): 22113 (7151 housing units)
Area: 30.3 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 75056
The Dalles, OR Zip code(s): 97058
The Plains, OH (CDP, FIPS 76568) Location: 39.36557 N, 82.13398 W
Population (1990): 2644 (1135 housing units)
Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 45780
The Rock, GA (town, FIPS 76112) Location: 32.96375 N, 84.24213 W
Population (1990): 88 (33 housing units)
Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 30285
The Plains, VA (town, FIPS 78192) Location: 38.86277 N, 77.77360 W
Population (1990): 219 (97 housing units)
Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 22171
The Pinery, CO (CDP, FIPS 77235) Location: 39.45523 N, 104.73394 W
Population (1990): 4885 (1561 housing units)
Area: 14.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
The Meadows, FL (CDP, FIPS 71580) Location: 27.36126 N, 82.46922 W
Population (1990): 3437 (2655 housing units)
Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
The Village, OK (city, FIPS 73250) Location: 35.57015 N, 97.55561 W
Population (1990): 10353 (4945 housing units)
Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
The Landing, MO (village, FIPS 72872) Location: 39.55941 N, 91.65898 W
Population (1990): 8 (2 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
The Sea Ranch, CA Zip code(s): 95497
South Of The Bor, SC Zip code(s): 29547
Lake Of The Fore, KS Zip code(s): 66012
Lake In The Hill, IL Zip code(s): 60102
Howey In The Hil, FL Zip code(s): 34737
Univ Of The Paci, CA Zip code(s): 95211
Avon By The Sea, NJ Zip code(s): 07717
Village of the Branch, NY (village, FIPS 77519) Location: 40.85126 N, 73.18464 W
Population (1990): 1669 (538 housing units)
Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Angola on the Lake, NY (CDP, FIPS 2220) Location: 42.65475 N, 79.04914 W
Population (1990): 1719 (794 housing units)
Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Head of the Harbor, NY (village, FIPS 32963) Location: 40.89819 N, 73.16276 W
Population (1990): 1354 (465 housing units)
Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
City of the Dalles, OR (city, FIPS 13425) Location: 45.59916 N, 121.17500 W
Population (1990): 11060 (4843 housing units)
Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)
Lake Of The Pines, CA (CDP, FIPS 39690) Location: 39.03867 N, 121.06030 W
Population (1990): 3890 (1616 housing units)
Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water)
Lake in the Hills, IL (village, FIPS 41183) Location: 42.19282 N, 88.32164 W
Population (1990): 5866 (1938 housing units)
Area: 13.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Lake of the Woods, IL (CDP, FIPS 41346) Location: 40.20646 N, 88.36856 W
Population (1990): 2748 (1078 housing units)
Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Lakes by the Bay, FL (CDP, FIPS 38718) Location: 25.57185 N, 80.32553 W
Population (1990): 5615 (2411 housing units)
Area: 12.5 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
Cardiff By The S, CA Zip code(s): 92007
The Village of Indian Hill, OH (city, FIPS 76582) Location: 39.18945 N, 84.33483 W
Population (1990): 5383 (1965 housing units)
Area: 48.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Lake of the Woods County, MN (county, FIPS 77) Location: 48.76754 N, 94.90381 W
Population (1990): 4076 (3050 housing units)
Area: 3358.5 sq km (land), 1239.0 sq km (water)
Lakes of the Four Seasons, IN (CDP, FIPS 41530) Location: 41.40860 N, 87.22299 W
Population (1990): 6556 (2201 housing units)
Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water)
Chippewa-on-the-Lake, OH (village, FIPS 14282) Location: 41.07008 N, 81.90369 W
Population (1990): 271 (147 housing units)
Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL (town, FIPS 39475) Location: 26.18843 N, 80.09579 W
Population (1990): 2990 (3345 housing units)
Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 1.5 sq km (water)
Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ (borough, FIPS 2440) Location: 40.19100 N, 74.01524 W
Population (1990): 2165 (1371 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Geneva-on-the-Lake, OH (village, FIPS 29652) Location: 41.85658 N, 80.94595 W
Population (1990): 1626 (1163 housing units)
Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA (city, FIPS 11250) Location: 36.55335 N, 121.92095 W
Population (1990): 4239 (3324 housing units)
Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Howey-in-the-Hills, FL (town, FIPS 32775) Location: 28.71595 N, 81.77477 W
Population (1990): 724 (351 housing units)
Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Selby-on-the-Bay, MD (CDP, FIPS 71050) Location: 38.91600 N, 76.52272 W
Population (1990): 3101 (1187 housing units)
Area: 8.3 sq km (land), 3.8 sq km (water)
Ormond-By-The-Sea, FL (CDP, FIPS 53175) Location: 29.34370 N, 81.06807 W
Population (1990): 8157 (5241 housing units)
Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Mentor-on-the-Lake, OH (city, FIPS 49098) Location: 41.71370 N, 81.36487 W
Population (1990): 8271 (3021 housing units)
Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Arden-on-the-Severn, MD (CDP, FIPS 2025) Location: 39.06995 N, 76.59492 W
Population (1990): 2427 (858 housing units)
Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)
St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (parish, FIPS 95) Location: 30.11824 N, 90.50189 W
Population (1990): 39996 (14255 housing units)
Area: 567.0 sq km (land), 334.0 sq km (water)
| U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau |
The
Eng"lish\, n. 1. Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons. 2. The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries. Note: The English language has been variously divided into periods by different writers. In the division most commonly recognized, the first period dates from about 450 to 1150. This is the period of full inflection, and is called Anglo-Saxon, or, by many recent writers, Old English. The second period dates from about 1150 to 1550 (or, if four periods be recognized, from about 1150 to 1350), and is called Early English, Middle English, or more commonly (as in the usage of this book), Old English. During this period most of the inflections were dropped, and there was a great addition of French words to the language. The third period extends from about 1350 to 1550, and is Middle English. During this period orthography became comparatively fixed. The last period, from about 1550, is called Modern English. 3. A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type. Note: The type called English. 4. (Billiards) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
The
For*thy"\, adv. [AS. for[eth][=y]; for, prep. + [eth][=y], instrumental neut. of se, se['o], [eth][ae]t, pron. demonstrative and article. See The.] Therefore. [Obs.] --Spenser.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
The
Lest\, conj. [OE. leste, fr. AS. [eth][=y] l[=ae]s [eth][=e] the less that, where [eth][=y] is the instrumental case of the definite article, and [eth][=e] is an indeclinable relative particle, that, who, which. See The, Less, a.]1. For fear that; that . . . not; in order that . . . not. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. --Prov. xx. 13. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. --1 Cor. x. 12. 2. That (without the negative particle); -- after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension. I feared Lest I might anger thee. --Shak.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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