theme

Noun

theme (plural: themes)

1. a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
2. a recurring motif.
3. (music) the main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.

5 letters in word "theme": E E H M T.

No anagrams for theme found in this word list.

Words found within theme:

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• Definitions:
• subject: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his ... a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' 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" composition: an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition" root: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"
• In the visual arts, a theme is a broad idea or a message conveyed by work done in a visual experience, such as a performance, a painting, or a motion picture. This message is usually about life, society or human nature. Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a work. ...
• In music, a theme is the initial or primary melody. The 1958 Encyclopédie Fasquelle defines a theme as follows: *"Any element, motif, or small musical piece that has given rise to some variation becomes thereby a theme."
• In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance details, used to customise the look and feel of (typically) an operating system, widget set or window manager.
• In linguistics, the topic (or theme) is informally what is being talked about talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic. Although this general nature of topic-comment dichotomy is generally accepted, anything beyond that is a matter of great controversy.
• The themes or themata (Greek '; singular ' thema) of the Byzantine Empire were administrative units established by a reform promulgated by Emperor Heraclius in the 7th century.
• Abstract idea embodied in a literary work.
• A user-defined perspective on a coverage, grid, tin or image geographic data set specified, if applicable, by a coverage name and feature class or data set name, attributes of interest, a data classification scheme, and theme-specific symbology for drawing.
• An idea based upon a particular subject.
• A consistent kind of meaning.
• "A salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work’s treatment of its subject-matter; or a topic occurring in a number of literary works." (CB)
• A general term for the underlying concept of a book. (see: hook)
• is the central message of a literary work. It is not the same as a subject, which can be expressed in a word or two: courage, survival, war, pride, etc. The theme is the idea the author wishes to convey about that subject. ...
• 1. a topic of discussion, writing, etc. 2. a major idea or proposition broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary or other work of art. Note: A theme may be stated or implicit, but clues to it may be found in the ideas that are given special prominence or tend to recur in a work.
• The central idea of a work.
• A "template" that will change the look of your site in every aspect. Themes can be downloaded from many places, including dragonflycms.org
• The overall look and feel of the PhotoBook. Themes may contain certain backgrounds on the PhotoBook pages or may represent the styles of templates available to give a PhotoBook a particular look.
• the central idea and what the story is about.
• Descriptive statement representing a major component of a strategy, as articulated at the highest level in the Vision. Most strategies can be represented in three to five themes. ...
• A common term referring to a birth chart.
• a relatively recent change in search engine ranking algorithms, theme-based engines essentially try to determine what a page is "about" — and to compare it to other pages that seem to be related to the same topic — and rank it highly for certain keywords that are determined to be related to ...
• a musical idea, usually a melody, that forms the basis or starting point for an entire composition or a major section
• The musical subject of a piece (usually a melody), as in sonata form or a fugue. An extramusical concept behind a piece.
• a theme applies professionally designed graphics to elements of the pages in a FrontPage-based web. FrontPage offers a gallery of over 50 themes that consist of similar design elements and color schemes for bullets, fonts, graphics, navigation bars, and other page elements. ...
• central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work. It’s not a condensed summary of the plot. Instead, it’sa generalization about people or about life that’s communicated through the literary work
• a central idea. In nonfiction prose it may be thought of as the general topic of discussion, the subject of the discourse, the thesis. In poetry, fiction, and drama it is the abstract concept that is made concrete through representation in person, action, and image. ...
• A theme is a file or (usually) collection of files (php, theme, css, jpg, gif, png), which together determine the look and feel of your site. These files are often used by one of the theme engines available for Drupal which is a PHP file of functions which turn arguments into HTML markup. ...
• Topics Include: Data Mining and Sustainable Development: Plant Diversity and Coping Strategies Restoring the Confidence in Confidence Factors Machine Learning in Action: Neural Networks AI in Bionic Prosthetic Limb Development
• The author's message about a topic within a text
• Guide Book with travel reference and planning maps
• A Concentration or Specialization is a set of courses within a program that provides a student with specific expertise, knowledge and/or practice and so further distinguishes their program in a recognizable way. ...

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