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theme 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/THēm/,
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themes, plural;
  1. Give a particular setting or ambience to (a venue or activity)
    • - Independence Day was celebrated with special themed menus
    • - a golf-themed business park
Noun
  1. The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic
    • - the theme of the sermon was reverence
    • - a show on the theme of waste and recycling
  2. The first major constituent of a clause, indicating the subject-matter, typically being the subject but optionally other constituents, as in “poor he is not.”

  3. An idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature

  4. A prominent or frequently recurring melody or group of notes in a composition

  5. (of music) Frequently recurring in or accompanying the beginning and end of a film, play, or musical
    • - a theme song
  6. A setting or ambience given to a leisure venue or activity
    • - a family fun park with a western theme
  7. Denoting a restaurant or bar in which the decor and the food and drink served are intended to suggest a particular foreign country, historical period, or other ambience
    • - a New Deal theme restaurant
  8. (mainly in journalism) Characterized by a theme or pervasive influence
    • - a golf-themed business park
  9. An essay written by a student on an assigned subject

  10. The stem of a noun or verb; the part to which inflections are added, esp. one composed of the root and an added vowel

  11. Any of the twenty-nine provinces in the Byzantine empire


  1. provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"
  2. subject: 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"
  3. a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"
  4. (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
  5. composition: an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition"
  6. root: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
  7. Theme is a 1988 album by Leslie West. It featured Jack Bruce and Joe Franco.
  8. In the visual arts, a theme is a broad idea or a message conveyed by a work, 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. ...
  9. The themes or themata (θέματα; singular θέμα, thema) were the main administrative divisions of the middle Byzantine Empire. ...
  10. In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance details, used to customize the look and feel of (typically) an operating system, widget set or window manager.
  11. In Indo-European linguistics, a thematic stem or vowel stem is a noun or verb stem that ends in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflectional paradigm. The vowel is called the thematic vowel. The noun or verb is also called thematic.
  12. In music, a theme is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based. It may be perceivable as a complete musical expression in itself, separate from the work in which it is found (Drabkin 2001). ...
  13. a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic; a recurring idea; a motif; the main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations; The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc. ...
  14. (Themes) A Moodle theme is a pre-designed user "view" (interface) that can be changed by the site administrator, teacher, or student. While robust, it does not affect how Moodle functions, just how it looks. ...
  15. (Themes) A theme is an overall idea of what a web page is focused on. Search engines determine the theme of a web page through analysis in the algorithm of the density of associated words on a page.
  16. (Themes) A way of sorting the program guide based on categories instead of time. You can sort by genre for example.
  17. (Themes) A web site or blog layout template designed to run on WordPress. In layman’s terms, it is a pre-made website for the WordPress platform that requires no additional design or layout work on your part except to install it.
  18. (Themes) Broad thematic areas that policy activities, documents and studies relate to, and that people and organizations are working on. ...
  19. (Themes) Climate Change, Economics of DRR, Environment, Food Security & Agriculture, Social Impacts & Resilience, Water
  20. (Themes) Different events and occasions such as Weddings, Birthdays, Holidays, Graduation, etc.
  21. (Themes) Every entry within eMelbourne has been grouped into one of 21 key themes such as Education, Sport & Recreation and Transport.
  22. (Themes) Games with certain themes are often sought after not only by game collectors but by those who collect artifacts of that subject. ...
  23. (Themes) Modern SE look for global themes across multiple documents, or even across an entire domain. Theme sites are better positioned than sites where a page simply happens to have the keywords in it. ...
  24. (Themes) Some companies provide an easy way to put together a photo book related to a particular event, or concept - popular topics are Birthdays, Baby, Weddings, Travel, Sports. Features backgrounds and often clip art that relate to the theme.
  25. (Themes) The CSS choices provided by Convio to control the font style, font size, and colors of an alert. One Theme is selected on the Design Alert process page to apply to all pages of an alert. You can also upload your own custom CSS to use as a Theme. (Also known as Styles.)