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what is the meaning of "the" word

Answer 1

what?!

Answer 2

Used before singular or plural nouns and noun phrases that denote particular, specified persons or things: the baby; the dress I wore.
Used before a noun, and generally stressed, to emphasize one of a group or type as the most outstanding or prominent: considered Lake Shore Drive to be the neighborhood to live in these days.
Used to indicate uniqueness: the Prince of Wales; the moon.
Used before nouns that designate natural phenomena or points of the compass: the weather; a wind from the south.
Used as the equivalent of a possessive adjective before names of some parts of the body: grab him by the neck; an infection of the hand.
Used before a noun specifying a field of endeavor: the law; the film industry; the stage.
Used before a proper name, as of a monument or ship: the Alamo; the Titanic.
Used before the plural form of a numeral denoting a specific decade of a century or of a life span: rural life in the Thirties.

Answer 3

the is not a dictionary word. it is an article having no meaning of it self. it is having ussage only that itt completes the meaning of number, gender, noun, pronoun and adjective by coming before it.

Answer 4

Means you ! like the Jennifer who did not know the meaning of "the" just lie !

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The

Answer 6

the1  /stressed ði; unstressed before a consonant ðə; unstressed before a vowel ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[stressed thee; unstressed before a consonant thuh; unstressed before a vowel thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–definite article 1. (used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an): the book you gave me; Come into the house.
2. (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West.
3. (used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith.
4. (used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time.
5. (used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped.
6. (used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging): He won't be able to play football until the leg mends.
7. (used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract idea): to visit the sick; from the sublime to the ridiculous.
8. (used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect): He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way.
9. (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties.
10. (one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one): Did you listen to the radio last night?
11. enough: He saved until he had the money for a new car. She didn't have the courage to leave.
12. (used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an: at one dollar the pound.


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[Origin: bef. 900; ME, OE, uninflected s. of the demonstrative pronoun. See that]


—Pronunciation note As shown above, the pronunciation of the definite article the changes, primarily depending on whether the following sound is a consonant or a vowel. Before a consonant sound the pronunciation is /ðə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thuh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation: the book, the mountain /ðəbɒɒk, ðəˈmaʊntn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thuh-book, thuh-moun-tn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. Before a vowel sound it is usually /ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, sometimes /ðɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thi] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation: the apple, the end /ði or ðɪˈæpəl, ði or ðɪɛnd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thee or thi-ap-uhl, thee or thi-end] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. As an emphatic form (“I didn't say a book—I said the book.”) or a citation form (“The word the is a definite article.”), the usual pronunciation is /ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, although in both of these uses of the stressed form, /ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation is often replaced by /ðʌ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thuh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, especially among younger speakers.
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the2  /before a consonant ðə; before a vowel ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[before a consonant thuh; before a vowel thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–adverb 1. (used to modify an adjective or adverb in the comparative degree and to signify “in or by that,” “on that account,” “in or by so much,” or “in some or any degree”): He's been on vacation and looks the better for it.
2. (used in correlative constructions to modify an adjective or adverb in the comparative degree, in one instance with relative force and in the other with demonstrative force, and signifying “by how much … by so much” or “in what degree … in that degree”): the more the merrier; The bigger they are, the harder they fall.


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[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE thē, thȳ, instrumental case of demonstrative pronoun. See that, lest]
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def.art.

Used before singular or plural nouns and noun phrases that denote particular, specified persons or things: the baby; the dress I wore.
Used before a noun, and generally stressed, to emphasize one of a group or type as the most outstanding or prominent: considered Lake Shore Drive to be the neighborhood to live in these days.
Used to indicate uniqueness: the Prince of Wales; the moon.
Used before nouns that designate natural phenomena or points of the compass: the weather; a wind from the south.
Used as the equivalent of a possessive adjective before names of some parts of the body: grab him by the neck; an infection of the hand.
Used before a noun specifying a field of endeavor: the law; the film industry; the stage.
Used before a proper name, as of a monument or ship: the Alamo; the Titanic.
Used before the plural form of a numeral denoting a specific decade of a century or of a life span: rural life in the Thirties.
Used before a singular noun indicating that the noun is generic: The wolf is an endangered species.

Used before an adjective extending it to signify a class and giving it the function of a noun: the rich; the dead; the homeless.
Used before an absolute adjective: the best we can offer.
Used before a present participle, signifying the action in the abstract: the weaving of rugs.
Used before a noun with the force of per: cherries at $1.50 the box.


[Middle English, from Old English the, alteration (influenced by th-, oblique case stem of demonstrative pron.), of se, masculine demonstrative pron.; see so- in Indo-European Roots.]

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adv.
Because of that. Used before a comparative: thinks the worse of you after this mistake.
To that extent; by that much: the sooner the better.
Beyond any other: enjoyed reading the most.


[Middle English, from Old English th, th, instrumental of thæ´¼/TT>, neuter demonstrative pron.. See to- in Indo-European Roots.]

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pref.
Variant of theo-.

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pref.
God: theomorphism.


[Greek, from theos. See dhs- in Indo-European Roots.]

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The operating system in which
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