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/T͟Hē/,/T͟Hə/,
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Denoting one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge,
  1. Denoting one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge
    • - what's the matter?
    • - call the doctor
    • - the phone rang
  2. Used to refer to a person, place, or thing that is unique
    • - the Queen
    • - the Mona Lisa
    • - the Nile
  3. Denoting a disease or affliction
    • - I've got the flu
  4. (with a unit of time) The present; the current
    • - dish of the day
    • - man of the moment
  5. Used instead of a possessive to refer to someone with whom the speaker or person addressed is associated
    • - I'm meeting the boss
    • - how's the family?
  6. Used with a surname to refer to a family or married couple
    • - the Johnsons were not wealthy
  7. Used before the surname of the chief of a Scottish or Irish clan
    • - the O'Donoghue
  8. Used to point forward to a following qualifying or defining clause or phrase
    • - the fuss that he made of her
    • - the top of a bus
    • - I have done the best I could
  9. (chiefly with rulers and family members with the same name) Used after a name to qualify it
    • - George the Sixth
    • - Edward the Confessor
    • - Jack the Ripper
  10. Used to make a generalized reference to something rather than identifying a particular instance
    • - he taught himself to play the violin
    • - worry about the future
  11. Used with a singular noun to indicate that it represents a whole species or class
    • - they placed the African elephant on their endangered list
  12. Used with an adjective to refer to those people who are of the type described
    • - the unemployed
  13. Used with an adjective to refer to something of the class or quality described
    • - they are trying to accomplish the impossible
  14. Used with the name of a unit to state a rate
    • - they can do 120 miles to the gallon
  15. Enough of (a particular thing)
    • - he hoped to publish monthly, if only he could find the money
  16. (pronounced stressing “the”) Used to indicate that someone or something is the best known or most important of that name or type
    • - he was the hot young piano prospect in jazz
  17. Used adverbially with comparatives to indicate how one amount or degree of something varies in relation to another
    • - the more she thought about it, the more devastating it became
  18. Used to emphasize the amount or degree to which something is affected
    • - commodities made all the more desirable by their rarity
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  7. With a comparative or more and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives; With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none
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  12. In the course of the next three years her empire warS seemed to be crumbling away everywhere. In 1675 Pomerania and the bishopric of Bremen were overrun by the Brandenburgers, Austrians and Danes. In December 1677 the elector of Brandenburg captured Stettin. ...
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  22. An article, aristocratic by birth and breeding, but which degenerates into an adjective in the sentence, "He is THE man of the hour."
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