Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Bible Thessalonians
  • abbreviation Thursday

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A suffix (-eth after a vowel) used in forming ordinal from cardinal numerals, as in fourth, fifth, sixth, etc., twentieth, thirtieth, hundredth, thousandth, millionth, etc.
  • noun A common English digraph. See T.
  • noun A suffix used in forming abstract nouns from adjectives or verbs, as in health from whole or heal, stealth from steal, filth from foul, tilth from till, growth from grow, truth, troth, from true or trow, drouth from dry, highth from high, etc.
  • noun A suffix (in older form -eth) used in forming the third person singular (and in Middle English all persons plural) of the present indicative of verbs, as in singeth, hopeth, etc., or hath, doth, etc.
  • noun An abbreviation of Thursday.
  • noun In chem., the symbol for thorium.
  • noun In chem.: a symbol for thallium: better Tl.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • In Old English, the article the, when the following word began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry Symbol for thorium.
  • noun Country code for Thailand.
  • noun Abbreviation of Thursday.
  • proper noun Abbreviation of Thessalonians.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the fifth day of the week; the fourth working day
  • noun a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands

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Examples

  • KREEP basalts on the moon are 10-20 ppm Th. There was a single fragment from one of the Apollo missions with 50 ppm Th. The reserve base for terrestrial Th is 1. 2M metric tons, but going to ores as dilute as KREEP basalts would expand the reserve base enormously.

    Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch 2009

  • Don't be thilly, if Ah'm gonna go, itth to thee that thuperhot George Takei and that hunky Kevin Th-orbo!

    I-CON 25 2006

  • The Siamese claim to have assumed the name Thăi (free) after they threw off the yoke of the

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

  • In some parts of the country the word Thâkur is more familiar as their general title.

    Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822

  • If in the above situation of the tongue and teeth a sound be produced in the mouth, and the sonorous air be forced between them, the sonisibilant Th is formed, as in Thee; and should have an appropriated character as [*].

    Note XV 1803

  • Sullen (the name Th 'Cap'n blessed Her assailant with) turned down one of the many dingy alleyways and his' enforcers 'shoved the women after him.

    Cap'n Dyke, Lesbian Pirate Queen & Rogue Blogger 2009

  • Sullen (the name Th 'Cap'n blessed Her assailant with) turned down one of the many dingy alleyways and his' enforcers 'shoved the women after him.

    Cap'n Dyke, Lesbian Pirate Queen & Rogue Blogger 2009

  • Remaining term Th u original loan term minus the number of payments made.

    Refinance 2nd Mortgage 2008

  • I also picked up a copy of the lovely Tel quel anthology from 1968 entitled Théorie d'ensemble Éditions du Seuil.

    Robert Bartlett, The Hanged Man (Princeton UP, 2004) Miglior acque 2009

  • I also picked up a copy of the lovely Tel quel anthology from 1968 entitled Théorie d'ensemble Éditions du Seuil.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Miglior acque 2009

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