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themes

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for themes.

Editorial note

Then don't use the standard themes, it's not hard to find minimal themes.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of themes gathered in one view.

noun

A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.

noun

A recurring idea; a motif.

noun

A concept with multiple instantiations.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for themes.

noun

A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.

noun

A recurring idea; a motif.

noun

A concept with multiple instantiations.

noun

A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

Example sentences

1

Then don't use the standard themes, it's not hard to find minimal themes.

2

The changes in GTK+ have become progressively less dramatic: this means that fixes for themes are now smaller/simpler, not that they don't need active upstream tracking.

3

It has shades of Alice in Wonderland, cyberpunk, casual sexual themes, jazz and rock and roll.

4

A subset of the themes in this order—namely, hierarchical races—is uncomfortably close to the order espoused by Nazi-flavored fascist rhetoric.

5

Jekyll and octopress out of the box with their 'standard' themes are still quite bloated.

6

There's always room for a well told story, some of the best stories of modern times are retellings of archetypal themes.

7

Is there a legal website where one can download all the premium gpl themes?

8

Common themes: a guy, living on his own (or with an often absent girlfriend), cooking simple dishes while drinking beer after working out.

9

Actually chart API allows to configure color brewer and I hope we will have several themes soon.

10

One of my favorite authors Hermann Hesse has very similar themes in almost every book, with just very different remixes on the same concepts.

11

But I love it that he kept searching for the perfect way to present those themes.

12

I liked this bit: > the diversity of themes and opinions is less online today than it was in the past.

Quote examples

1

I've only read his novella "Understand", but it tackled Eliezer-esque themes in a non-Eliezer-esque way.

2

The common themes IMO are either, developers doing ops (a nightmare if you ask me) or ops teams utilising more "development" like processes such as automated setup tools, configuration management, etc.

3

"The goal of the KDE VDG is to create a central point for all visual design work – a one-stop for all KDE's visual design needs, if its logo's, icons, visuals, illustrations, launch pages, plasma themes or presentation and promo-material." Above from the 'what' page on that site.

Proper noun examples

1

I wish I could just turn off the 'Themes' service to get it back to Win98-style.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use themes in a sentence?

Then don't use the standard themes, it's not hard to find minimal themes.

What does themes mean?

A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.

What part of speech is themes?

themes is commonly used as noun.