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T0147900 (thēm)n.1. A topic of discourse or discussion. See Synonyms at subject.2. A subject of artistic representation.3. An implicit or recurrent idea; a motif: a party with a tropical island theme.4. A short composition assigned to a student as a writing exercise.5. Music A recurring melodic element in a composition, especially a melody forming the basis of a set of variations.6. Linguistics a. See topic.b. A stem.

[Middle English teme, theme, from Old French tesme, from Latin thema, from Greek; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

theme′less adj.

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(θiːm) n1. an idea or topic expanded in a discourse, discussion, etc2. (in literature, music, art, etc) a unifying idea, image, or motif, repeated or developed throughout a work3. (Music, other) music a group of notes forming a recognizable melodic unit, often used as the basis of the musical material in a composition4. (Education) a short essay, esp one set as an exercise for a student5. (Grammar) linguistics the first major constituent of a sentence, usually but not necessarily the subject. In the sentence history I do like, "history" is the theme of the sentence, even though it is the object of the verb6. (Linguistics) grammar another word for root¹⁹, stem¹⁹7. (Historical Terms) (in the Byzantine Empire) a territorial unit consisting of several provinces under a military commander8. (modifier) planned or designed round one unifying subject, image, etc: a theme holiday. vb (tr) to design, decorate, arrange, etc, in accordance with a theme[C13: from Latin thema, from Greek: deposit, from tithenai to lay down] ˈthemeless adj

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n. 1. a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic. 2. a unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc., as in a work of art. 3. a short, informal essay, esp. a school composition. 4. a. a principal melodic subject in a musical composition. b. a short melodic subject from which variations are developed. 5. stem ¹ (def. 10). 6. topic (def. 3). [1250–1300; Middle English teme, theme (< Old French teme) < Medieval Latin thema, Latin < Greek théma proposition, deposit =(ti)thé(nai) to put, set down + -ma resultative n. suffix] syn: See subject.

theme

Past participle: themed
Gerund: theming

Imperative
theme
theme

Present
I theme
you theme
he/she/it themes
we theme
you theme
they theme

Preterite
I themed
you themed
he/she/it themed
we themed
you themed
they themed

Present Continuous
I am theming
you are theming
he/she/it is theming
we are theming
you are theming
they are theming

Present Perfect
I have themed
you have themed
he/she/it has themed
we have themed
you have themed
they have themed

Past Continuous
I was theming
you were theming
he/she/it was theming
we were theming
you were theming
they were theming

Past Perfect
I had themed
you had themed
he/she/it had themed
we had themed
you had themed
they had themed

Future
I will theme
you will theme
he/she/it will theme
we will theme
you will theme
they will theme

Future Perfect
I will have themed
you will have themed
he/she/it will have themed
we will have themed
you will have themed
they will have themed

Future Continuous
I will be theming
you will be theming
he/she/it will be theming
we will be theming
you will be theming
they will be theming

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been theming
you have been theming
he/she/it has been theming
we have been theming
you have been theming
they have been theming

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been theming
you will have been theming
he/she/it will have been theming
we will have been theming
you will have been theming
they will have been theming

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been theming
you had been theming
he/she/it had been theming
we had been theming
you had been theming
they had been theming

Conditional
I would theme
you would theme
he/she/it would theme
we would theme
you would theme
they would theme

Past Conditional
I would have themed
you would have themed
he/she/it would have themed
we would have themed
you would have themed
they would have themed

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	theme - the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love"subject, topicsubject matter, content, message, substance - what a communication that is about something is aboutbone of contention - the subject of a dispute; "the real bone of contention, as you know, is money"precedent - a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)question, head - the subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets"keynote - the principal theme in a speech or literary work
	2.	theme - a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"motifidea, thought - the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"topos - a traditional theme or motif or literary convention; "James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses"
	3.	theme - (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"melodic theme, musical theme, ideamusic - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous mannermelodic line, melodic phrase, melody, tune, strain, air, line - a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"motif, motive - a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of musicstatement - (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata"variation - a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
	4.	theme - an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition"paper, report, compositionessay - an analytic or interpretive literary compositionterm paper - a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term
	5.	theme - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"root word, stem, root, radical, baselinguistics - the scientific study of languagedescriptor, form, signifier, word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
Verb	1.	theme - provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"furnish, provide, supply, render - give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"

theme

noun1. motif, leitmotif, recurrent image, unifying idea The need to strengthen the family has become a recurrent theme.2. subject, idea, topic, matter, argument, text, burden, essence, thesis, subject matter, keynote, gist The novel's central theme is the conflict between men and women.

theme

noun1. What a speech, piece of writing, or artistic work is about:argument, matter, point, subject, subject matter, text, topic.2. A relatively brief discourse written especially as an exercise:composition, essay, paper.3. The main part of a word to which affixes are attached:base, root, stem.

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theme

(θiːm) noun1. the subject of a discussion, essay etc. The theme for tonight's talk is education. （谈话、讨论的）主题目 2. in a piece of music, the main melody, which may be repeated often. 主旋律

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1. Music a group of notes forming a recognizable melodic unit, often used as the basis of the musical material in a composition 2. a short essay, esp one set as an exercise for a student 3. (in the Byzantine Empire) a territorial unit consisting of several provinces under a military commander

Theme

An idea, point of view, or perception embodied in a work of art; an underlying and essential subject of artistic expression.

development

To disclose by degree or in detail; to evolve the possibilities by a process of growth; to elaborate with the gradual unfolding of an idea.

variation

Repetition of a theme with embellishments in rhythm, details, and materials while keeping the essential characteristics of the original.

Theme

an object of artistic treatment; the range of phenomena in life selected by a writer or artist and fashioned into a whole by the author’s concept.

To an extent, the relation between the theme and the author’s intellectual concept also permits the theme to be viewed as the work’s principal problem or idea (hence the concepts of an intellectual and thematic basis or interpretation of a work). While noting the role of the artist’s world view in the choice and development of a theme, one must bear in mind that an artistic theme does not exist outside of an artistic image or, in particular, outside of a plot structure (in a narrative or dramatic work), even though it is more accessible than other components of an artistic work. Therefore, the theme cannot be treated as if it were circumscribed by a single meaning. Every work tends to have a multiplicity of themes. A theme exists in images, causing different works on one common theme, such as the superfluous man or the lost generation, to acquire different spiritual and intellectual meanings. Poetry recognizes the existence of “eternal themes,” such as love, death, and freedom.

Soviet criticism has developed the concept of the “thematic picture” (tematicheskaia kartina), which constitutes an artistic work on a significant theme, such as a military-historical work or a work that takes man’s labor or daily life as its subject. In representational art, theme forms its own genre, for example, genre art, historical painting, and portraiture; this is also seen in literature, for example, science fiction and the detective story.

In music, the theme is a structure that expresses a specific musical idea and represents an important element in the musical work. Usually a musical theme is not merely expounded, but developed. In polyphonic music the theme is monophonic and is taken by different voices in turn; in homophonic music the theme usually unites the leading melody and accompanying voices, which provide the melody with a harmonic interpretation. In many cases, two, three, or more contrasting themes are found in relatively long and complex musical works; the most complex structures in instrumental music are characteristic of the sonata form. In other instances, a work may be built on more or less free transformations of a single theme; such transformations may even result in a change of genre within the work. Sometimes, particularly in operatic music, very short musical phrases or figures (leitmotifs) are raised to the level of a theme.

Theme

the first element in a sentence; one of the two basic concepts in the functional analysis of a sentence, whereby a spoken sentence is divided according to meaning into an initial part—the given—and that which is said about the given—the new. The theme usually coincides with the grammatical subject, but any other expression of it is possible: lablokl—uima (“Apples/—lots of them,” where “apples” is the theme) and Na vtoroel podali bifshteks (“For the second course they served beef cutlets,” where “for the second course” is the theme).

In writing, the theme may be separated by a dash or left unsep-arated from the rest of the sentence. In the speech of many languages, it is marked by intonation, as in Russian Okhotal zapreshchena (“Hunting is prohibited,” where “hunting” is the theme). In Russian the theme is most often situated at the beginning of an utterance. In many languages, such as Japanese and the Hamito-Semitic languages, the theme has special morphological or syntactic markers. In some sentences expressing existence or a statement of fact, it is not separable from the rest of the sentence: Idet sneg (“It is snowing”) and Net deneg (“There is no money”).

REFERENCES

Raspopov, I. P. Aktual’noe chlenenie predlozheniia. Ufa, 1961.
Adamets, P. Poriadok slov v sovremennom russkom iazyke. Prague, 1966.
Grammatika sovremennogo russkogo literaturnogo iazyka. Moscow, 1970.

Theme

a military and administrative district in the Byzantine Empire.

The theme system emerged in response to the breakdown of the late Roman provincial structure, in which military and civil authority were strictly separated. The themes, which succeeded the exarchates, first appeared in the seventh century. The first themes in Asia Minor—Anatolikon, Armeniakon, and Opsikion—were large districts in which sizable military units, also called themes, were deployed. The districts were ruled by the commanding officers of the units, the strategoi, who exercised military and judicial powers and controlled taxation.

The themes were broken up into smaller units as the power of the state increased; by the 11th century, the themes had been replaced by small military districts, which were united into larger units known as ducatae and catapanates. Only the Nicaean Empire retained the division into themes, which took the form of districts of moderate size governed by vicegerents, who were frequently replaced. In the 14th century the theme system gave way to a system of independent principalities, such as the Despotate of Morea, in the hereditary possession of great feudal families.

REFERENCES

Litavrin, G. G. Bolgariia i vizantiia v XI-XII vv. Moscow, 1960.
Angelov, D. “K voprosu o praviteliakh fern v Epirskom despotate i Nikeiskoi imperii.” Byzantinoslavica, 1951, vol. 12.
Pertusi, A. “La Formation des themes byzantins.” In Berichte zum XI. internationalen Byzantinisten-Kongress. Munich, 1958.
Karayannopulos, J. Die Entstehung der byzantinischen Themenordnung. Munich, 1959.

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The visual motif (design, style) of a website, PowerPoint presentation or software. For example, an operating system theme comprises the window border and title bar colors, desktop background and typography. See skin and theme aware.

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noun motif

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noun subject

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noun what a speech, piece of writing, or artistic work is about

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noun a relatively brief discourse written especially as an exercise

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noun the main part of a word to which affixes are attached

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noun the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

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noun a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work

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noun (music) melodic subject of a musical composition

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noun an essay (especially one written as an assignment)

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noun (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

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verb provide with a particular theme or motive

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