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2 DET You use those when you are referring to people or things that are a distance away from you in position or time, especially when you indicate or point to them. □  What are those buildings? □  Oh, those books! I meant to put them away before this afternoon. ● PRON Those is also a pronoun. □  Those are nice shoes. Where'd you get them?

3 DET You use those to refer to someone or something when you are going to give details or information about them. [FORMAL ] □  Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.

4 PRON You use those to introduce more information about something already mentioned, instead of repeating the noun which refers to it. [FORMAL ] □  The interests he enjoys most are those which enable him to show off his talents.

5 PRON You use those to mean 'people'. □  A little selfish behaviour is unlikely to cause real damage to those around us.

6 DET You use those when you refer to things that you expect the person you are talking to to know about or when you are checking that you are both thinking of the same people or things. □  He did buy me those daffodils a week or so ago.

thou /ðaʊ/

1 PRON Thou is an old-fashioned, poetic, or religious word for 'you' when you are talking to only one person. It is used as the subject of a verb.

2 → see also holier-than-thou

though ◆◆◆ Pronounced /ðoʊ/ for meanings 1 and 2 , and /ðoʊ / for meanings 3 to 6 . 1 CONJ You use though to introduce a statement in a subordinate clause which contrasts with the statement in the main clause. You often use though to introduce a fact which you regard as less important than the fact in the main clause. □  The film was exactly how I had pictured it, though I think Gale should have had a bigger part. □  After this news Ford broke down again, though he blamed the breakdown on his work.

2 CONJ You use though to introduce a subordinate clause which gives some information that is relevant to the main clause and weakens the force of what it is saying. □  I look back on it as the bloodiest (though not literally) winter of the war.

3 ADV You use though to indicate that the information in a clause contrasts with or modifies information given in a previous sentence or sentences. □  I like him. Though he makes me angry sometimes.

4 PHRASE You can say though I say so myself or even though I say it myself when you are praising yourself or something you have done, but do not want to sound too proud. [mainly SPOKEN ] □  I'm a good cook, though I say it myself.

5as though → see as ➋

6even though → see even ➊

thought ◆◆◆ /θɔː t/ (thoughts )

1Thought is the past tense and past participle of think .

2 N‑COUNT [N that] A thought is an idea that you have in your mind. □ [+ of ] The thought of Nick made her throat tighten. □  He pushed the thought from his mind. □  I've just had a thought.

3 N‑PLURAL [usu poss N ] A person's thoughts are their mind, or all the ideas in their mind when they are concentrating on one particular thing. □  I jumped to my feet so my thoughts wouldn't start to wander. □  If he wasn't there physically, he was always in her thoughts.

4 N‑PLURAL [oft poss N ] A person's thoughts are their opinions on a particular subject. □ [+ on ] Many of you have written to us to express your thoughts on the conflict. □ [+ on ] Mr Goodman, do you have any thoughts on that? [Also + about ]

5 N‑UNCOUNT Thought is the activity of thinking, especially deeply, carefully, or logically. □  Alice had been so deep in thought that she had walked past her car without even seeing it. □  He had given some thought to what she had told him.