A theme can be an underlying topic of a discussion or a recurring idea in an artistic work. Anxiety about getting married is a big theme in romantic comedies.
A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
Noun
a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl'' theme"
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(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
Noun
an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition"
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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"
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(music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
Verb
provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"
n.
A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a
proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
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Discourse on a certain subject.
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A composition or essay required of a pupil.
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A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part
of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic
variations) in declension or conjugation; stem.
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That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument.
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The leading subject of a composition or a movement.
Theme
My theme is alway one and ever was.
And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off.2.
Then ran repentance and rehearsed his theme.
It was the subject of my theme.3.
A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
Usage Examples
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.
The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.
The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
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Other Usage ExamplesCountries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.
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