{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ði", "ðə" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/the.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/the.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (CA)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/the.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/the.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/the.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/the.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/the.wav" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English þe, from Old English þē m (“the, that”, demonstrative pronoun), a late variant of sē, the s- (which occurred in the masculine and feminine nominative singular only) having been replaced by the þ- from the oblique stem.\nOriginally neutral nominative, in Middle English it superseded all previous Old English nominative forms (sē m, sēo f, þæt n, þā pl); sē is from Proto-West Germanic *siz, from Proto-Germanic *sa, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *só.\nCognate with Saterland Frisian die (“the”), West Frisian de (“the”), Dutch de (“the”), German Low German de (“the”), German der (“the”), Danish de (“the”), Swedish de (“the”), Icelandic sá (“that”) within Germanic and with Sanskrit sá (“the, that”), Ancient Greek ὁ (ho, “the”), Tocharian B se (“this”) among other Indo-European languages.", "From Middle English the, thy, thi, from Old English þē̆, probably a neuter instrumental form (\"by that, thereby\")—alongside the more common þȳ and þon—of the demonstrative pronoun sē (\"that\"). Compare Dutch des te (\"the, the more\"), German desto (\"the, all the more\"), Norwegian fordi (\"because\"), Icelandic því (“the; because”), Faroese tí, Swedish ty.", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Article", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it hints at is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already completely specified. \nI’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)\nThe street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)\nThe men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird." }, { "mean": "Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.\nThe street that runs through my hometown." }, { "mean": "Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. \nNo one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.\nGod save the Queen!" }, { "mean": "Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.\nThat was the best apple pie ever." }, { "mean": "Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. \nThat apple pie was the best." }, { "mean": "Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class." }, { "mean": "Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. \nFeed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable." }, { "mean": "Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. \nNo one in the whole country had seen it before.\nI don't think I'll get to it until the morning." }, { "mean": "Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. \nA stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)" }, { "mean": "When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. \nThat is the hospital to go to for heart surgery." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.\nThe hotter(,) the better. (comma usually omitted in such very short expressions)\nThe more I think about it, the weaker it looks.\nThe more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.\nIt looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it." }, { "mean": "With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none.\nIt was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.\nIt was a difficult time, and I’m {none - not any} the wiser for it.\nI'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that." } ] }, { "name": "Preposition", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "For each; per.\nvalued at half a pound the bushel; paying seven dollars the year interest\n1837, James Edward Alexander, Narrative of a Voyage of Observation Among the Colonies of Western Africa, in the Flag-ship Thalia; and of a Campaign in Kaffir-land, on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, in 1835, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, pages 251–2:Next morning I was up at an early hour, to see the market held near the water gate. The beef was excellent: but at the high prices of ten-pence and one shilling the pound; mutton at the same price; fowls a dollar the couple, and showing “more feathers than flesh.”\nFor more quotations using this term, see Citations:the." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "See also\n\na\nan\n(slang) da\n(slang) de\nt’\nthat\nthis\nWikipedia article on grammatical articles" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "기사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "전치사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "le" ], "kor": [ "" ] } } }