theme
Meanings
noun
- A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- A recurring idea; a motif.
- A concept with multiple instantiations.
- Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
- An essay written for school.
- The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.
- The stem of a word.
- Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- Topic, what is generally being talked about.
verb
- To give a theme to.
- To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).
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Etymology
From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.
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