TH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Th mean? 

• TH (noun)
  The noun TH has 2 senses:

1. the fifth day of the week; the fourth working day

2. a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands

  Familiarity information: TH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fifth day of the week; the fourth working day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Th; Thursday

Hypernyms ("Th" is a kind of...):

weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 90; Th; thorium

Hypernyms ("Th" is a kind of...):

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Th"):

radiothorium; thorium-228 (radioactive isotope of thorium with mass number 228)

Holonyms ("Th" is a substance of...):

monazite (a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium)

thorite (a radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate; it is a source of thorium that is found in coarse granite)

 Context examples 

“So th' are, so th' are!” cried Ham.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The —th regiment are stationed there since the riots; and the officers are the most agreeable men in the world: they put all our young knife-grinders and scissor merchants to shame.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Maróth pointed out it would have been much more costly and time-consuming to research mortar technology than to acquire it this way.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

The n-th root of the multiple products of n values, as contrasted with the normally understood arithmetic mean.

(Geometric Mean, NCI Thesaurus)

The research from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, observed that T helper (Th) 17 cells were much more prevalent in the gum tissue of humans with periodontitis than in the gums of their healthy counterparts, and that the amount of Th17 cells correlated with disease severity.

(Researchers identify immune culprits linked to inflammation and bone loss in gum disease, National Institutes of Health)

Vaccination with glioblastoma multiforme multi-antigen vaccine IMA950 stimulates the host immune system to mount a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response as well as a T-helper (Th) immune response against tumor cells expressing these peptides, potentially resulting in decreased tumor growth of GBM.

(Glioblastoma Multiforme Multipeptide Vaccine IMA950, NCI Thesaurus)

“Well said! So th' are. Mas'r Davy bor'—gent'lmen growed—so th' are!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Already-queued orders won't leave idle capacity for some years, Maróth said, and paying back this loan seems realistic.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

But she could remember Bill Oliver's father a journeyman needlemaker; and th' Rivers wor gentry i' th' owd days o' th' Henrys, as onybody might see by looking into th' registers i' Morton Church vestry.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If you heerd, said Mr. Peggotty, owt of what passed between Mas'r Davy and me, th' night when it snew so hard, you know as I have been—wheer not—fur to seek my dear niece.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)