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Click here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll\The\ ([th][=e], when emphatic or alone; [th][-e], obscure before a vowel; [th]e, obscure before a consonant; 37), definite article. [AS. [eth]e, a later form for earlier nom. sing. masc. s[=e], formed under the influence of the oblique cases. See {That}, pron.] A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning. Note: The was originally a demonstrative pronoun, being a weakened form of that. When placed before adjectives and participles, it converts them into abstract nouns; as, the sublime and the beautiful. --Burke. The is used regularly before many proper names, as of rivers, oceans, ships, etc.; as, the Nile, the Atlantic, the Great Eastern, the West Indies, The Hague. The with an epithet or ordinal number often follows a proper name; as, Alexander the Great; Napoleon the Third. The may be employed to individualize a particular kind or species; as, the grasshopper shall be a burden. --Eccl. xii. 5.
\The\, adv. [AS. [eth][=e], [eth][=y], instrumental case of s[=e], se['o], [eth][ae]t, the definite article. See 2d {The}.] By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform. ``Yet not the more cease I.'' --Milton. So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate. --Milton.
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Let's analyse "the" as pure text. This string has Three letters in zero syllables and One vowel. 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: EHT. Average typing speed for these characters is 840 milliseconds. [info]
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the: 5 = 5, reduced: 5 . and the final result is Five. |
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