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[ US /ˈðəs/ ]
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ADVERB
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in the way indicated
hold the brush so
set up the pieces thus -
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
therefore X must be true
the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory
it is late and thus we must go
the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted
we were young and thence optimistic
NOUN
- an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation
How To Use thus In A Sentence
- I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
- Oh, poof! You do not understand a little soldierly enthusiasm.
- His work is thus marked with a bitter irony which permeated not only the substance of his theory but also its method.
- A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought.
- And thus the Washington Post column on David's congressional testimony, where he is described "hunched" and said to have "barked," "growled" and "snarled" -- language you would use to describe an animal. Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team
- Thus, developing a vaccine directed against one or a few capsular polysaccharides may not be widely effective.
- Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- There is no suggestion of a pronounced twist in the ventral margin of the jaw of Hynerpeton like that seen in Densignathus.
- Pressure difference adhesion and a kinetic pectoral girdle thus allow the clingfish to exploit a food resource unavailable to many other predators.
- Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4