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those

[thohz]

plural of that.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English those, thoos, thas(e), variant of tho (Middle English, Old English thā), plural of that, by association with Middle English thees, thas(e) (Old English thās), plural of this

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Those is always a great word to know.

So is gobo. Does it mean:

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Example Sentences

But those gathered outside were waiting for one sprinter and one sprinter only.

Researchers have taken only the first steps toward finding definitive answers to both of those questions.

Interesting, though likely not enough to satisfy those baying for bankers' blood.

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But those gathered outside were waiting for one sprinter and one sprinter only.

Researchers have taken only the first steps toward finding definitive answers to both of those questions.

Interesting, though likely not enough to satisfy those baying for bankers' blood.

Names don't last forever, including those on desktop globes.

City dwellers may handle pressure differently from those who live in less populated areas.

Those who don't have power tend to make fun of those who do.

Try this out on those horticultural wizards who think they know it all.

Nobody else is likely to match those prices or features any time soon.

I've always liked bridges and been a bit phobic about tunnels, particularly those that run under water.

Even among those who do, students who borrow are finishing with greater and greater average debt burdens.

The rich among those target groups are talking about going abroad.

Then compare those characteristics to those of your home region.

Those technological advances have been truly extraordinary and have revolutionized every aspect of our lives.

The faces of famous chiefs mix with those of young women and medicine men.

The rich colors in the laja negra paving stones echo those of the cliff that forms the garden's backdrop.

But this post is not a lament for a bygone politics, because lord knows there are enough of those.

Programs that help the needy are among those at risk.

They've got those headphones in their ears and a gadget in every hand.

Here, an update and audio outtakes from some of those accidental celebrities.

Feathers developed differently in dinosaurs' life cycles than in those of modern birds.

And you begin to think in terms of all those years that you have worked.

Those marketed as weed killers have a higher proportion of soap to water than those sold to kill insects.

All those movie vampires set impossibly high standards for appearances.

Those are not necessarily families that mistreat or neglect their children.

But different applications of those regulations by the country's nine provinces have created problems.

The brains of chimpanzees show a number of similarities to those of humans, the results of two new studies suggest.

But you have to be a pilot for that, and those are retired, too.

P lants and flowers resemble those of medium-size campanulas.

Electronic money is one of those pie-in-the-sky dreams that everybody and everything but the market believes in.

But those scholars also became intrigued by the range of individual variation they found.

Lurking among the pines and cedars, your client can easily sniff out other critters when those snack attacks strike.

Plus there are also all those other problems with long-term alcohol abuse thrown in.

The vuvuzelas and those choosing to play them could have been a perfectly fine part of the world cup crowd.

Damage to those big, bold, fleshy leaves is highly visible.

Congress declared that those measures would expire at the end of this month unless new action was taken.

Freshwater animals are vanishing faster than those on land or at sea.

What's been learned from those events, and how they have shaped our lives since.

Oddly, the survival rate of those near wolves was four times higher than those in wolf-free areas.

Cool down those hot summer days with these fruity sorbets.

Those networked fashion sharers are hot on your heels.

Once the trap door closes on the victim, digestive enzymes similar to those in the human stomach slowly consume the insect.

Those are the main vessels that come off of the aorta, the main artery in our body.

In the criminal justice system, there are those who meet their downfall through their relationship to food.

Then choose flowers, paint, and furnishings that mirror those colors.

Those who spread corruption should be tried and prosecuted.

Near the edges of the paper, draw pictures of animals and/or plants native to the country, particularly those that are endangered.

One quick-and-dirty damage control tactic is apologizing to those we've wronged.

Some of those encounters occurred hundreds of miles from an eruption.

All those resinous plants releasing their aromatic oils in the warm air.

Those farmers and artisans may be the only other people you see for days.

Those who ate more fruits and vegetables had a yellower hue to their skin.

Those who know the rocks from which the bones came were not so sure.

But if you're looking for some tried-and-true fall bloomers, you'll find those too.

Those reductions will create whole new industries in the areas of clean energy and energy efficiency.

Those who live in fear of such a tragedy are engaging in magical thought and behaving irrationally.

Those are lofty ambitions, but they have been achieved with considerable success.

Although there are dozens of varieties, pumpkins fall into two categories: those for carving and those for cooking.

Judgment as to the acceptability of those costs requires an understanding of environmental opportunities and constraints.

But those findings didn't hold up for antioxidant supplements.

Those quirky, bendy straws that make the satisfying crunching sound when flexed.

Plants in partial shade are less compact and produce fewer flowers than those in full sun.

Museums resisted those claims, demanding evidence that the contested artifacts had indeed been spirited away.

Some additional thoughts for those seeking encore careers.

Mobile banking offers a more reliable alternative, he says, and could have economic benefits comparable to those of mobile phones.

Who would have guessed that those hardy tubers produce a flower.

The main commodity being transported on those roads was the simplest of all: water.

It is the quality that keeps us from overvaluing our own opinions and discounting the opinions of those who know more than we.

But those songs were written in the days when touring was a way of marketing recorded music.

Get rid of those black boxes and bring in some unexpected pizzazz and great sound to your favorite.

But those who care beyond their own self-interest will never find themselves short of committee work.

Companies that fish in only half of the talent pool will lose out to those that cast their net more widely.

Ask students to name some common behaviors of house cats that resemble those of their larger relatives, tigers.

Those who were selfish and well-connected saw their reputation diminish.

Not all cats roar, but those that do fascinate us with their mysterious and frightening sounds.

The possibilities between those cultures are constrained by biology.

And woe to those faculty members who are actually good at.

Those guns that are injuring more people are killing fewer, and the number of those stabbed to death is stable.

Those who've lived in the same place for a while have witnessed changes in everything from architecture to politics to pastimes.

Those with pliant branches can be grown as informal espaliers.

High ratings in those categories are regarded as the core attributes of a great academic workplace.

People who live in colder states take more exercise than those who live in warm ones.

Understanding cultural groups prepares us to better listen to, respect, and celebrate those who seem different at first glance.

Some winemakers in the cooler parts of those states make a hybrid that's lean and earthy yet still has generous fruit.

But when those at the bottom don't understand the unequal distribution of wealth.

And so the season of panic and anxiety approaches for those teachers who.

The biblical symbolism has not gone unnoticed by those who.

Forget those so-called survivors battling for bucks on glorified game shows.

For example, the device occasionally has trouble adapting to drastic changes in glucose, such as those that occur after exercise.

Along those staggering distances lay a wealth of cultures and traditions.

The flip side to this good news is that there were a lot of shade trees in those lawns.

As a result, getting those three necessary letters of.

Social games have also become extraordinarily popular because they cleverly exploit those relationships.

Mariners fear those driving winds and the monster waves they produce.

Baby boomers who keep up the pace as they age are likely to outlive those who slow down.

In mild-winter climates, you can also sow at intervals in fall and winter for harvest during those seasons.

His finding contradicts a number of other studies and those differences will have to be sorted out.

But hurricanes bring an even richer variety of terrors to those caught on land.

Some of those stars exploded, spewing the heavier elements out into space.

To dispense with all those fallen leaves you rake up this month, build a compost pile.

But those arguments are unconvincing when weighed against the many advantages of going all-electronic.

They found that those who had survived marasmus ate differently from those who had survived kwashiorkor.

Those who lost loved ones wrestled grief and futility.

Those without siblings may not lack social skills after all.

And those of you who received your magazine in the mail may have noticed that it was not wrapped in the usual white paper.

There's an old-fashioned cast to those terms, as if they've been lifted from the handwritten report card of some.

On the other hand, the pressures that can be brought to bear in a police station are much stronger than those in a lab.

Cold-weather noses may function differently from those that evolved in hot and humid climates.

Those dark spaces represent thousands of square miles of mountains, mesas and plains occupied by absolutely no one.

Those in cultivation have showy clusters of tubular flowers attractive to hummingbirds.

Reading those stories can rouse the imagination, but.

Those patterns are indicative of people trying, but struggling, to keep up with their payments.

The avalanche path pulsed not only with the signals of the buried but also with those of the rescuers trying to find them.

Now researchers find that blind people perceive touch faster than do those with sight.

Kennedy asked me to study those words again, in preparing to help him write his inaugural address.

Frittatas are a great solution for using up all those leftover vegetables at the end of the week.

Those who judge us also have to recognize that, for community colleges, graduation rates are not the sole indicators of success.

But floods can bring misery and death to those who.

Those who do seek treatment have more severe alcohol and related problems than those who do not.

He pledged that those who wrote to him would also remain anonymous.

In the following list, those setting fruit do so without a male variety-but plants need a long warm season to set fruit.

Undergraduates who send those exploratory e-mails have typically been advised to do.

Those lines and colors, so clear and confident on the final product, reflect a host of difficult choices and compromises.

It would be years before those fights would play out in the political ring.

Those dreams of landing a human being on the planet may become a.

Parents use social networks to gain intel on their kids' friends and on those kids' parents.

Without requiring much memory, it would be able recognize changes in the environment and consider those before taking action.

And, because agaves live so long, you have to look at those scars for a long time.

We seek those that appreciate the value of a map and are routinely discovering new ways to use them.

Among this group, she found that those who bore sons had shorter life spans than those who gave birth to daughters.

Most of those done in the decades after the war were overly praiseful, and the absence of a recent biography.

Rustic, regal, it is one of those public spaces that make everyone look their best.

The capsule quickly sank and those remaining inside died.

The dam should also protect those downstream from catastrophic flooding that has killed millions in the past.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

pronoun

(used to indicate a person, thing, idea, state, event, time, remark, etc., as pointed out or present, mentioned before, supposed to be understood, or by way of emphasis): That is her mother. After that we saw each other.

(used to indicate one of two or more persons, things, etc., already mentioned, referring to the one more remote in place, time, or thought; opposed to this): This is my sister and that's my cousin.

(used to indicate one of two or more persons, things, etc., already mentioned, implying a contrast or contradistinction; opposed to this): This suit fits better than that.

(used as the subject or object of a relative clause, especially one defining or restricting the antecedent, sometimes replaceable by who, whom, or which): the horse that he bought.

(used as the object of a preposition, with the preposition standing at the end of a relative clause): the farm that I spoke of.

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(used in various special or elliptical constructions): fool that he is.

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adjective

(used to indicate a person, place, thing, or degree as indicated, mentioned before, present, or as well-known or characteristic): That woman is her mother. Those little mannerisms of hers make me sick.

(used to indicate the more remote in time, place, or thought of two persons, things, etc., already mentioned; opposed to this): This room is his and that one is mine.

(used to imply mere contradistinction; opposed to this): not this house, but that one.

adverb

10.

(used with adjectives and adverbs of quantity or extent) to the extent or degree indicated: that much; The fish was that big.

11.

to a great extent or degree; very: It's not that important.

12.

Dialect. (used to modify an adjective or another adverb) to such an extent: He was that weak he could hardly stand.

conjunction

13.

(used to introduce a subordinate clause as the subject or object of the principal verb or as the necessary complement to a statement made, or a clause expressing cause or reason, purpose or aim, result or consequence, etc.): I'm sure that you'll like it. That he will come is certain. Hold it up so that everyone can see it.

14.

(used elliptically to introduce an exclamation expressing desire, a wish, surprise, indignation, or other strong feeling): Oh, that I had never been born!

Idioms

15.

at that,

in spite of something; nevertheless: Although perhaps too elaborate, it seemed like a good plan at that.

in addition; besides: It was a long wait, and an exasperating one at that.

16.

that is, (by way of explanation, clarification, or an example); more accurately: I read the book, that is, I read most of it. Also, that is to say.

17.

that's that, Informal. there is no more to be said or done; that is finished: I'm not going, and that's that!

18.

that way, Informal. in love or very fond of (usually followed by about or for): The star and the director are that way. I'm that way about coffee.

19.

with that, following that; thereupon: With that, he turned on his heel and fled.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English thæt (pronoun, adj., adv. and conjunction), orig., neuter of se the; cognate with Dutch dat, German das(s), Old Norse that, Greek tó, Sanskrit tad

Can be confused: that, which (see usage note at the current entry).

Usage note
4. When that introduces a relative clause, the clause is usually restrictive; that is, essential to the complete meaning of the sentence because it restricts or specifies the noun or pronoun it modifies. In the sentence The keys that I lost last month have been found, it is clear that keys referred to are a particular set. EXPANDWithout the that clause, the sentence The keys have been found would be vague and probably puzzling. That is used to refer to animate and inanimate nouns and thus can substitute in most uses for who(m) and which: Many of the workers that (or who) built the pyramids died while working. The negotiator made an offer that (or which) was very attractive to the union. Experienced writers choose among these forms not only on the basis of grammar and the kind of noun referred to but also on the basis of sound of the sentence and their own personal preference
The relative pronoun that is sometimes omitted. Its omission as a subject is usually considered nonstandard, but the construction is heard occasionally even from educated speakers: A fellow (that) lives near here takes people rafting. Most often it is as an object that the relative pronoun is omitted. The omission almost always occurs when the dependent clause begins with a personal pronoun or a proper name: The mechanic (that) we take our car to is very competent. The films (that) Chaplin made have become classics. The omission of the relative pronoun as in the two preceding examples is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
13. The conjunction that, which introduces a noun clause, is, like the relative pronoun that, sometimes omitted, often after verbs of thinking, saying, believing, etc.: She said (that) they would come in separate cars. He dismissed the idea (that) he was being followed. As with the omission of the relative pronoun, the omission of the conjunction almost always occurs when the dependent clause begins with a personal pronoun or with a proper name. This omission of the conjunction that occurs most frequently in informal speech and writing, but it is a stylistic option often chosen in more formal speech and writing.

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World English Dictionary

those (ðəʊz)

—*determiner*
	the form of that used before a plural noun

[Old English thās, plural of this]

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Word Origin & History

that

O.E. þæt, neuter sing. of the demonstrative pronoun and adj. (corresponding to masc. se, fem. seo), from P.Gmc. *that, from PIE *tod-, extended form of demonstrative pronomial base *to- (cf. Skt. ta-, Lith., O.C.S. to, Gk. to "the," L. talis "such"). Cf. the. Emerged

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c.1200 as a demonstrative adj. with the breakdown of the O.E. grammatical gender system, perhaps by infl. of Fr. and L., which had demonstrative adjectives (O.E. did not). Slang that way "in love" first recorded 1929. That-a-way is recorded from 1839. "Take that," said while delivering a blow, is recorded from c.1425.

those

Midlands and southern variant of O.E. þas, nominative and accusative plural of þes, þeos "this" (see this).

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Slang Dictionary

that definition

mod.
a stylistic replacement for the. (Especially in citizens band radio jargon and much daily colloquial speech. It is the pervasive overuse of this form that makes it notable as colloquial.) : Can you tell me where that next rest stop is?
mod.
a stylistic modifier of personal and place names and some other nouns that do not normally take modifiers. (Citizens band radio.) : How do I get to that Kansas City?

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Idioms & Phrases

those

see just one of those things; one of those days.

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