Definition of The&tl=

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definite article used to specify one person or item in particular (Grammar)
(Grammar) word used to modify adjectives and adverbs and show relation between two conditions (i.e. The more I study, the more I learn)

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The&tl= Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
Comeout
Used in the context of general equities. The opening. Antithesis of the Close.

Company Info: Ticker, Name, Description
ARTL
The Aristotle Corporation
Exchange: Nasdaq
Holding company with subsidiary which manufactures health and medical education teaching aids, including mannikins and simulation kits used for training in cpr, emergency rescue and patient care.

CCGP
The Concours Group, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Not Available

CGGI
The Carbide/Graphite Group, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Manufactures graphite products, including graphite electrodes used in electric arc steel manufacturing and machined graphite specialty products used in the semiconductor, metal processing and other diverse industries; And manufactures calcium carbide products used in specialty chemicals manufacturing, steel and iron

CRNS
The Cronos Group
Exchange: Nasdaq
Holding company with subsidiaries which provide intermodal marine container leasing services, supplying dry cargo, refrigerated and tank containers, primarily to ocean carriers and transport operators.

EBSC
The Elder-Beerman Stores Corp.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Operates independent department stores offering moderate to better branded merchandise, including women's ready-to-wear, men's and children's apparel, acessories, shoes and cosmetics, home furnishings and other consumer goods; And owns and operates a private label credit card program.

FOB
THE BOYDS COLLECTION LTD
Exchange: NYSE
Distributes hand-crafted collectibles and other specialty giftware products, including resin figurines, plush animals, porcelain dolls and boxes and related clothing and accessories.

HAIN
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Markets, distributes and sells full line of natural foods, cooking oils, sugar-free products, medically directed snack foods, low sodium food products and frozen kosher food products such as rice cakes, soups, crackers, condiment and snacks.

MILB
The Millbrook Press, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Publishes non-fiction children's books in both hardcover and paperback for school and public library markets.

MNI
THE MCCLATCHY CO(HLDG CO)
Exchange: NYSE
Publishes daily and non-daily newspapers in california, alaska, washington and the carolinas; Provides on-line information on business, sports, national and international news; And prints various commercial products and preprinted advertisements for third party customers.

PLCE
The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Designs, contracts to manufacture and sells newborn to twelve year old children apparel and accessories under "the children's place" brand name.

PRED
The Orlando Predators Entertainment, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Owns and operates the "orlando predators" football team.

PREDW
The Orlando Predators Entertainment, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Not Available

PRGX
The Profit Recovery Group International, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Provides accounts payable and other audit recovery services to large retailers, wholesale distributors, healthcare providers, technology companies and other large transaction-intensive companies, as well as to certain governmental agencies.

SGDE
The Sportsman's Guide, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Sells variety of merchandise primarily for hunters, fisherman and outdoorsman, such as hunting and general apparel, footwear, hunting and shooting accessories, ammunition, knives and accessories, camping equipment, general merchandise, collectibles and a variety of gift items, close-out items, and military surplus items,

SKCO
The Sagemark Companies Lt
Exchange: OTCBB
Not Available

SVM
THE SERVICEMASTER CO
Exchange: NYSE
Holding company with subsidiaries which provide specialty services to homeowners and commercial facilities, such as lawn care, tree and shrub services, and indoor plant maintenance services, termite and pest control services, residential and commercial cleaning, and disaster restoration services, domestic housekeeping services,

TACX
The A Consulting Team, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Provides enterprise-wide information technology consulting, software and training services and solutions to fortune 1000 companies in a wide range of industries.

TSA
THE SPORTS AUTHORITY INC
Exchange: NYSE
Operates large format sporting goods stores, offering quality brandname sporting equipment and athletic and active footwear and apparel.

TXCO
The Exploration Company
Exchange: Nasdaq
Explores for, develops and produces oil and natural gas.

ULTI
The Ultimate Software Group, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Designs, markets, implements and supports technologically advanced, cross-industry human resource management and payroll software solutions.

YRKG
The York Group, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Manufactures and produces wide variety of metal and hardwood caskets, and casket components; And produces commemorative products including bronze memorials, flower vases, niches, crypt letters and architectural signage products.


The&tl= Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
The
(v. i.)
See Thee.
  
(definite article.)
A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.
  
(adv.)
By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.
  

The Phrase Finder
Andrew - The
Meaning
The British Navy.
Origin
Andrew Miller was so successful at pressing unwilling recruits into seafaring that the navy acquired this nickname.

Order of the boot - The
Meaning
Given the sack, i.e. asked to leave your job (see 'get the sack').
Origin
Ironic reference to heraldic orders like the Order of the Garter.

Powers that be - The
Origin
From the Bible. Romans 13:1. 'Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: The powers that be are ordained of God.'

Tail wagging the dog - The
Meaning
An item of group of minor importance influencing events more than its larger and more important neighbour. S.J. Perelman, the US humorist, used the phrase for a nice wittism after escaping the attentions of a group of prostitutes - 'A case of the tail dogging the wag'.

The Balance of power
Meaning
The distribution of power between nations in such a way that no one has dominance over the others.
Origin
The distribution of power between nations in such a way that no one has dominance over the others.

The Balance of trade
Meaning
The difference between the value of the imports and exports that a nation makes.

The Ball is in your court
Meaning
The next move is up to you.
Origin
From tennis, where you must play the ball back to the opponent's court whenever it comes into yours.

The Big Apple
Meaning
Nickname for New York, USA.
Origin
Derived from the translation by jazz musicians of the manzana principal area as 'apple orchard'. Another explanation has it that jazz musician's slang for engagement was 'apple'. A date in New York was the 'big apple'.

The Big Easy
Meaning
Nickname for New Orleans, USA.
Origin
Refers to the laid back life that jazz musicians indulged in there.

The Devil incarnate
Origin
From Shakespeare's King Henry V and Titus Andronicus.
HV - Boy: Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils
incarnate.
TA - LUCIUS: O worthy Goth, this is the incarnate devil
That robb'd Andronicus of his good hand;
This is the pearl that pleased your empress' eye,
And here's the base fruit of his burning lust.
Say, wall-eyed slave, whither wouldst thou convey
This growing image of thy fiend-like face?
Why dost not speak? what, deaf? not a word?
A halter, soldiers! hang him on this tree.
And by his side his fruit of bastardy.


The Devil take the hindmost
Origin
Samuel Butler. 1600-1680. 'And bid the devil take the hin'most.' Canto ii. Line 633

The King is dead, long live the King
Meaning
Pronouncement made when the British monarch dies.
Origin
The new king's reign starts at the moment the old one dies.

The Queen's English
Meaning
The language of the United Kingdom.
Origin
Shakespeare used the phrase in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' but it was in common use before that. 'The King's English' is used when we (the British) have a king.

The Real McCoy
Meaning
The real thing - not a substitute.
Origin This rivals 'the whole nine yards', 'okay' and 'the full monty' for pre-eminence in the 'I can explain that phrase' stakes. As usual, plausibility and frequent retelling are considered enough for absolute certainty. There are several people and things that the phrase has been applied to - which came first is uncertain.
  1. McCoy is derived from Mackay, referring to Messrs. Mackay, Edinburgh, who made a brand of fine whisky from 1856 onwards and which that they promoted as 'the real Mackay' from 1870.
  2. After Kid McCoy (Norman Selby,1873-1940), American welterweight boxing champion. The story goes, and there are various versions of it, that a drunk challenged Selby to prove that he was McCoy and not one of the many lesser boxers trading under the same name. After being knocked to the floor the drunk rose to admit that 'Yes, that's the real McCoy'.
  3. The Canadian inventor Elijah McCoy made a successful machine for lubricating engines which spawned many copies all inferior to the original. He patented the design in 1872.
  4. The phrase originates with a dispute between two branches of the Scots Mackay clan over who was their rightful leader. The head of one branch was Lord Reay, who came to be known as the Reay Mackay which migrated to 'the real McCoy'.
  5. Joseph McCoy (1837-1915), became mayor of Abilene, Kansas as it developed into a sizeable town. He called himself 'the real McCoy'.
  6. Bill McCoy was a US rumrunner during the prohibition years and his 'real' rum, imported from Canada, was compared favourably with poor quality local brews.
  7. McCoy was a Pennsylvanian who supplied commercial nitro-glycerine to safecrackers who favoured it over their own home-made efforts.
  8. McCoy is a corruption of Macao which was the source of a pure and sought after class of heroin.

There are several other attempts at explanation going the rounds but they carry little conviction.

The Royal We
Meaning
A monarch's use of the first person plural when referring to him/herself.
Origin
Originated with the British Royal family.

The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind
Meaning
Misheard lyric.
Origin
Misheard version of Bob Dylan's 'the answer my friend is blowing in the wind'. Difficult to know whether this was genuinely misheard or whether it is just a nice line that someone made up and presented as misheard.

The apple of his eye
Origin
From The Bible. Deuteronomy 32:10. 'He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.' Zechariah 2:8. 'For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.'

The back of beyond
Meaning
A lonely forsaken place.
Origin
The Outback (the inland desert region) of Australia.

The bee's knees
Meaning
Excellent - the highest quality.
Origin
Bees carry pollen back to the hive in sacs on their legs. It is tempting to explain this phrase as alluding to the concentrated goodness to be found around the bee's knee. There's no evidence for that explanation though. The phrase seems to have been coined in 1920s America and the first printed reference to it is found in 1922. There's no deep and profound reason for relating bees and knees other than it's perky sounding rhyme, along the lines of 'the mutts nuts'.

The best laid schemes of mice and men
Origin
From Robert Burns' poem 'To a Mouse', 1786. It tells of how he, while ploughing a field, upturned a mouse's nest. The resulting poem is an apology to the mouse and goes on to say that 'the best laid schemes o'mice an'men, Gang aft a-gley'.

The bitter end
Meaning
The limit of one's efforts.
Origin
Probably of nautical origin. A bitt is a bollard that cables are wound onto. The end of the cable that is fixed to the bollard is the bitter end.

The blind leading the blind
Meaning
Uninformed and incompetent people leading others who are similarly incapable.
Origin
From the Bible. Matthew 15:14. 'Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.'

The bread of life
Meaning
Jesus Christ.
Origin
From John 6,35. 'And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.'

The buck stops here
Meaning
Responsibility is not passed on beyond this point.
Origin
U.S. president Harry Truman had a sign with this inscription on his desk. This was meant to indicate that he didn't 'pass the buck' to anyone else but accepted responsibility for the way the country was governed.

The butler did it
Meaning
A jokey suggestion of the solution to the instigator of a crime in detective novels.
Origin
This became a cliche because of the supposed high proportion of low grade detective fiction where this was the actual solution.

The call of the wild
Meaning
The appeal of nature in the raw.
Origin
Jack London had a novel of this name published in 1903, although the phrase may have preceded this.

The collywobbles
Meaning
A state of nervousness, usually accompanied by a rumbling stomach.
Origin
This may not be related but colly is an English dialect word meaning coal dust. Blackbirds were hence known as colly birds. The song 'Twelve days of Christmas' is usually sung as ... my true love sent to me, four calling birds... but the actual line is 'four colly birds'.

The course of true love never did run smooth
Origin
From Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The crack of doom
Origin
From Shakespeare's Macbeth

The crapper
Meaning
The lavatory.
Origin
Popular wisdom attributes this to be derived from Thomas Crapper, the inventor of the flush toilet. Unfortunately, TC didn't invent the toilet - only an additional attachment to it. Also, the word crap was in use before TC gained fame for his contribution to sanitary engineering.

The customer is always right
Origin
Slogan coined by H. Gordon Selfridge, 1857-1947, the founder of the Selfridge chain stores.

The die has been cast
Meaning
An irrevocable choice has been made.
Origin
The die here is the singular of dice. Julius Caesar is supposed to have spoken this phrase when crossing the Rubicon.

The exception which proves the rule
Meaning
The counter example that questions the validity of a rule.
Origin
This doesn't mean that a rule is proved to be correct by a counter example, which would be a logical nonsense. Proving here means testing - the meaning being that the truth of a rule is tested (i.e. possibly proved untrue) by an exception. For example, the rule that 'all birds can fly' is tested by the existence of penguins.

The face that launched a thousand ships
Origin
Christopher Marlowe, in Doctor Faustus, referring to Helen of Troy. 'Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.'

The female of the species is more deadly then the male
Origin
Quotation from Rudyard Kipling.

The game is afoot
Origin
From Shakespeare's King Henry IV. 'Before the game is afoot, thou still let'st slip.'

The game is up
Origin
From Shakespeare's Cymbeline.

The girl with colitis goes by
Meaning
Mishear lyric.
Origin
Misheard version of 'the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.'

The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Origin
From Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The live-long day
Origin
From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

The love of money is the root of all evil
Origin
From the Bible. Often misquoted as 'money is the root of all evil'. Timothy 6:10. 'For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.'

The love that dare not speak its name
Meaning
Most probably a reference to homosexuality, although Oscar Wilde denied this in his defense of the charge of gross indecency.
Origin
Lord Alfred Douglas coined the phrase in his poem 'Two Loves', which was printed in the Chameleon in 1894.

The moving finger writes
Origin
Edward Fitzgerald, 1809-83, in his poem The Rubßiyßt of Omar Khayyßm. 'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

The mutt's nuts
Meaning
Excellent - the highest quality.
Origin
Variant of 'the dog's bollocks'. Originated in the UK in the 1990s.

The penny drops
Meaning
A realisation after a period of confusion or misunderstanding.
Origin
May have originated as a reference to the use of coin (penny) operated slots on the locks or public toilets.

The pot calling the kettle black
Meaning
Someone who criticises another but who is just as much at fault themselves.
Origin
From Cervantes' Don Quixote.

The quality of mercy is not strained
Origin
From Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
PORTIA: The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.


The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Origin
Mark Twain quotation after hearing that his obituary had been published in the New York Journal.
Mistaken publications of obituaries aren't as rare as you might expect. A recent example is of Dave Swarbrick, the British folk/rock violinist, who was killed off mistakenly by the Daily Telegraph in April 1999 when they reported that his visit to hospital in Coventry had resulted in his death. He did at least get the opportunity to read a rather favourable account of his life, not something we all get to do, and to deliver the gag "It's not the first time I have died in Coventry".

The road less trevelled
Meaning
The unconventional or uninvestigated option. The notion is near to what is nowadays called 'alternative'.
Origin
From Robert Frost's (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Note spellings - In Uk: travelled, in USA: - traveled.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Origin
Proverbial - late sixteenth century. Often wrongly attributed to Samuel Johnson.

The root of the matter
Origin
From the Bible. Job 19:28 'But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the Root of the matter is found in me?'

The salt of the earth
Origin
From The Bible. Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

The shit hits the fan
Meaning
An uproar caused when a previously secret situation becomes publicly known.
Origin
Originated in the USA in the 1930s.

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Origin
From Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The smallest room in the house
Meaning
Coy reference to a lavatory.
Origin
Used by Sir Winston Churchill in a reply to an unwelcome letter. 'Dear Sir, I am in the smallest room of the house and your letter is before me. Very soon it will be behind me.'

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
Origin
From Shakespeare's Henry VI. Part III.

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Origin
From the Bible, Matthew 26:41. 'Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.'

The sport of kings
Meaning
Horse racing.
Origin
Racing was a favourite pastime of British monarchs in the past (and in the present apparently).

The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
Origin
Pythagoras's theorem.

The status quo
Meaning
The existing and normal condition.
Origin
From the Latin; literally 'the state in which'.

The sun never sets on the British Empire
Origin
Christopher North, in Noctes Ambrosianae, 'His Majesty's dominions, on which the sun never sets.'

The thin red line
Meaning
A line of British soldiers (who wore red jackets).
Origin
Jingoistic folklore in the UK had it that a small group of British soldiers were good enough to hold back a mob of warlike foreigners.

The third degree
Meaning
Close interrogation.
Origin
A Masonic term. In a masonic lodge there are three degrees, the first is called Entered Apprentice, the second Fellowcraft, and the third is master mason. When a candidate receives the third degree in a masonic lodge, he is subjected to some activities that involve an interrogation and it is more physically challenging than the first two degrees.

The unacceptable face of capitalism
Origin
British prime minister Edward Heath used this to describe the activities of the Lonrho company and its head Tiny Roland.

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable
Origin
Oscar Wilde's quotation about fox hunting.

The wages of sin is death
Origin
From the Bible. Romans 6:23. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The whole nine yards
Meaning
All of it - full measure.
Origin
Of all the feedback that The Phrase Finder site gets this is the phrase that causes the most feedback and the most disagreement. At the outset it should be said that no one knows the origin, although many have a fervent belief that they do. These convictions are unfailingly based on no more evidence than 'someone told me'.
It is most likely that, as with many phrases, it originated in colloquial use and has been appropriated as a general term meaning full measure. It crops up in many contexts, which isn't surprising as there are many things that can be measured in yards. This leads to many plausible explanations of the phrase's origin; regrettably, plausibility isn't enough.
The earliest known reference to the phrase in print is as recent as 1967 in 'The Doom Pussy', a novel about the Vietnam War by Elaine Shepard. In that context the phrase refers to the difficulties a character has with disentangling himself from an unwanted marriage. It isn't clear if the author coined the phrase herself, although the manner of its use in the story would suggest not. Ms. Shepard died in September 1998, so unfortunately we can't ask her.
Although the precise origin of any particular phrase may be difficult to determine, the date of its coinage usually isn't. Phrases that are accepted into common use appear in newspapers, court reports, novels etc. very soon after they are coined and continue to do so for as long as the phrase is in use. Anyone putting forward an explanation of an origin the the whole nine yards that dates from before the 1960s has to explain the lack of a printed record of it prior to 1967. If, to take the most commonly repeated version for instance, the phrase comes from the length of W.W.II machine gun belts, why is there no printed account of that in the thousands of books written about the war and the countless millions of newspaper editions published throughout the 1950s and 60s? The ideas that it pre-dates the war and goes back to the 19th century or even the Middle Ages are hardly plausible.
These are some of the versions going the rounds: take your pick...
  1. It comes from the nine cubic yards capacity of US concrete trucks and dates from around 1970s.
  2. The explanation refers to World War II aircraft, which if proved correct would clearly predate the concrete truck version. There are several aircraft related sources, 1. the length of US bombers bomb racks, 2. the length of RAF Spitfire's machine gun bullet belts, 3. the length of ammunition belts in ground based anti-aircraft turrets, etc. No evidence to show that any of these measured nine yards has been forthcoming.
  3. Tailors use nine yards of material for top quality suits. Related to 'dressed to the nines'?
  4. The derivation has even been suggested as being naval and that the yards are shipyards rather than measures of area or volume.
  5. Another naval version is that the yards are yardarms. Large sailing ships had three masts, each with three yardarms. The theory goes that ships in battle can continue changing direction as new sails are unfurled. Only when the last sail, on the ninth yardarm, is used do the enemy know which direction the ship is finally headed.
  6. A mediaeval test requiring the victim to walk nine paces over hot coals.

If anyone has any hard evidence of this phrase being used before 1967, e.g. an appearance of the phrase in print, we would love to see it. Please post your feedback at the Phrase Finder Discussion Forum - but please, evidence not conjecture.

The wind of change is blowing through this continent
Origin
Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) British prime minister in a speech to the South African Parliament, 1960. 'The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.'

The writing is on the wall
Meaning
An unavoidable disaster is foretold.
Origin
From The Bible. Daniel 5.5. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Anagram
the
   eth

hEnglish - advanced version
the

the
\the\, adv. [as. ?ē, ?&ymacr;, instrumental case of sē, se?, ??t, the definite article. see 2d the.] by that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform. "yet not the more cease i." so much the rather thou, celestial light, shine inward, and the mind through all her powers irradiate.
the
\the\ (?), v. i. see thee. [obs.] milton.
the
\the\ (&thlig;ē, when emphatic or alone; &thlig;&esl;, obscure before a vowel; &thlig;e, obscure before a consonant; 37), definite article. [as. ?e, a later form for earlier nom. sing. masc. sē, formed under the influence of the oblique cases. see that, pron.] a word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.
note: the was originally a demonstrative pronoun, being a weakened form of that. when placed before adjectives and participles, it converts them into abstract nouns; as, the sublime and the beautiful. the is used regularly before many proper names, as of rivers, oceans, ships, etc.; as, the nile, the atlantic, the great eastern, the west indies, the hague. the with an epithet or ordinal number often follows a proper name; as, alexander the great; napoleon the third. the may be employed to individualize a particular kind or species; as, the grasshopper shall be a burden. xii. 5.
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technische hoogeschool eindhoven (os), "t.h.e."
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 the lord`s anointed 
 to drink to the health of 
 circle of the sphere 
 to read between the lines 
 jack-of-the-clock 
 in the same boat 
 to take the back track 
 chancellor of the duchy of lancaster 
 round the clock 
 to take the air 
 the english hippocrates 
 to take the bull by the horns 
 the anchor comes home 
 to take the bull by the horns 
 prime of the moon 
 to follow the hounds 
 in the middle 
 the english 
 to take the field 
 to take the chair 
 into the wind 
 pitt the younger 
 to take the name of god in vain 
 in the rough 
 to take the ground 
 into the bargain 
 the camera 
 to take the place of 
 uz, the land of 
 the enemy 
 to take the road 
 over the left 
 talk of the town 
 to take the reins 
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Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
the
an (singular), na (plural)
the cat, the cats: an cat m., na cait m.
the place, the places: an áit f., na háiteanna f.

English Phonetics

JM Languages
THE
The is a language spoken in Laos.
The language is: The

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Cydwaed
Cydwaed = a. to the same blood

Med
Med = prep. to the full; to, unto

Ydd
Ydd = a. the


The&tl= Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries

International Relations and Security Acronyms
The
Horizon (radar)


The&tl= Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries

maritime&shipping&trade
THE
Technical Help for Exporters (department of the BOTB)


The&tl= Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
THE
THE is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:

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Article (grammar)
An article is a word that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. The three main articles in the English language are the, an and a. An article is sometimes called a Noun marker, although this is generally considered to be an archaic term.

It is sometimes wondered which part of speech articles belong to. Since articles modify nouns, either alone or in combination with an adjective, they are sometimes classed as adjectives. However, some linguists place them in a different category, that of determiners.

Articles can have various functions:

  • A definite article (English the) is used before singular and plural nouns that refer to a particular member of a group.
The cat is on the black mat.
  • An indefinite article (English a, an) is used before singular nouns that refer to any member of a group.
A cat is a mammal.
  • A partitive article indicates an indefinite quantity of a mass noun; there is no partitive article in English, though the words some or any often have that function.
French: Voulez-vous du café ? ("Do you want some coffee?" or "Do you want coffee?")
  • A zero article is the absence of an article (e.g. English indefinite plural), used in some languages in contrast with the presence of one. Linguists hypothesize the absence as a zero article based on the X-bar theory.
Cats are mammals.

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