thema thematis

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theme
The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif
a recurring idea; a motif
{n} a subject, talk, dissertation, power, root
the main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations
The appearance of a user interface Netscape's official word for skins See skin and chrome
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"
The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work A theme provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized It is important not to mistake the theme for the actual subject of the work; the theme refers to the abstract concept that is made concrete through the images, characterization, and action of the text In nonfiction, however, the theme generally refers to the main topic of the discourse
A user-defined perspective on a geographic data set specified, if applicable, by a name and feature class or data set name, attributes of interest, or data classification scheme
{f} provide with a subject
A user-defined perspective on a coverage, grid, tin or image geographic data set specified, if applicable, by a coverage name and feature class or data set name, attributes of interest, a data classification scheme, and theme-specific symbology for drawing
The leading subject of a composition or a movement
provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"
A Theme, simply put, is a set of VoyForums options under a single name This allows a user to pick a single option and set many attributes of their forum at one time VoyForums provides a large quantity of advanced options and themes are a way for everyone to set these with ease Additionally, the preset themes allow even the most advanced user a means of viewing examples so they can then use their own creativity in configuring forums
In the Readership Institute's newspaper content analysis, each story was coded according to the primary theme - or topic - of the story There were 26 themes, such as politics, business, sports, and science, representing the types of stories commonly appearing in newspapers
a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic
A central idea or statement that unifies and controls the entire work The theme can take the form of a brief and meaningful insight or a comprehensive vision of life; it may be a single idea such as "progress" (in many Victorian works), "order and duty" (in many early Roman works), "seize-the-day" (in many late Roman works), or "jealousy" (in Shakespeare's Othello) The theme may also be a more complicated doctrine, such as Milton's theme in Paradise Lost, "to justify the ways of God to men," or "Socialism is the only sane reaction to the labor abuses in Chicago meat-packing plants" (Upton Sinclair's The Jungle) A theme is the author's way of communicating and sharing ideas, perceptions, and feelings with readers, and it may be directly stated in the book, or it may only be implied Compare with motif and leit-motif
{i} subject, topic, main idea
A big idea or a higher-order conceptual category that can subsume vast quantities of specific information An important science theme is the Form Follows Function in living and engineered systems (See Essential Question and Focus question to see the relationship among themes, essential questions, and focus questions )
a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme" (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus
1 A phrase that serves as the subject, or melody for a given work, as in a fugue, or sonata 2 A conceptual idea that motivates a given work