What's the difference between thou and thousandth?

Thou


Definition:

  • (obj.) The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.
  • (v. t.) To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.
  • (v. i.) To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) Constant ribbing about his private life was compromising Deayton's position as the show's "holier-than-thou" host, who showed no mercy towards politicians or celebrities caught in a similar position, the corporation added.
  • (3) Similarities between Kohut's empathic relatedness and Buber's I-Thou are demonstrated as well as some congruence in their clinical views.
  • (4) At CPAC, conservatives dedicated an entire panel to “The Future of Marriage.” One could be forgiven for assuming it tackled the issue via the sub-topic “Gays, and the Ickiness Thereof,” because that was the default assumption among those attending CPAC as part of an ongoing More Jaded Than Thou contest.
  • (5) "Lest any holier-than-thou activists and politicians from other parties should forget, this is not just a Lib Dem issue, it is one that confronts women in all parties and in all professions.
  • (6) Members of the group will be on church steps again on Sunday, just as they were last week when dozens of Polish Catholics walked out of mass in protest at a bishops’ message stating that abortion is contrary to the “thou shalt not kill” commandment.
  • (7) Worse, it actually helps deflect anger from the Nigerian politicians robbing their own people to the “hypocritical west which acts holier than thou while helping steal our money”.
  • (8) Basically the problem is that the full I-Thou form in terms of Buber and Gebsattel can no longer be realized.
  • (9) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
  • (10) Such was the thou-shalt-not-pass determination as Pavey clenched her teeth round the last lap that it was a minor wonder she was able to smile so quickly afterwards.
  • (11) It was headed with the following Shakespeare quotation: "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
  • (12) Now he's a social-smoking, foodier-than-thou critic at a "Food Rave".
  • (13) Why you should listen : “Answer not a fool according to his folly,” it says in Proverbs, “lest thou also be like unto him.” Jones’s appearance on Rogan’s show is a cautionary tale.
  • (14) Winnicott's notion of the creation of the subject in the psychological space between mother and infant involves a conception of the on-going constitution of the subject in the simultaneity of forms of dialectical tension between at-one-ment and separateness, internality and externality, I and me, I and Thou.
  • (15) She had read Martin Buber 's I and Thou , and the collected works of Carl Jung , and become fascinated with archetypes and astrology.
  • (16) According to the late Peter Wright, whose book Spycatcher revealed many of the secrets that he had carefully hoarded during his 22 years as an MI5 officer, new recruits would be expected to take to heart its 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not get caught."
  • (17) Goop You wouldn't believe the vegan snack I've just had…Gwyneth Paltrow, creator of holier-than-thou lifestyle guide Goop.
  • (18) Even at a time when other aspects of foreign policy – such as over Iran – are breaking with blind whither-thou-goest Atlanticism, the ossified Orwellian terms of the nuclear discussion go unchallenged by government and opposition alike.
  • (19) And for the hopefuls lining up outside the passport office: thou shalt not quibble about freedom of speech.
  • (20) It's when Rosalind says to Celia: "O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love.

Thousandth


Definition:

  • (a.) Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.
  • (a.) Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.
  • (a.) Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Administration of diet containing MeIQx at 0.4, 4 or 40 p.p.m., representing one-thousandth, one-hundredth and one-tenth of the dose proved to induce hepatocellular carcinomas (400 p.p.m.
  • (2) One microgram of DNA extracted from formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue was applied as the 'first PCR' template and one ten-thousandth of the first PCR product was used as the 'second PCR' template.
  • (3) One hundredth ... no, sorry, one thousandth of the budget of a Star Trek.
  • (4) The inhibitory concentration of BV-araU for DNA synthesis in VZV-infected cells was one-thousandth of that of acyclovir.
  • (5) With a thickness of less than one thousandth of a millimetre, the “glass” (it’s really a film) transmits light visible to the human eye, while selectively capturing and converting ultraviolet and near-infrared light into electricity to power a mobile device and extend its battery life.
  • (6) At birth, a panda cub is pink, with sparse white hair, and minute, weighing around 150g or just one thousandth of its mother's weight – the birth itself can take just minutes.
  • (7) However, the affinity of TRH-A (pD2, 4.70) toward isolated duodenum was one thousandth that of TRH (pD2, 7.74).
  • (8) Soon the spare room of his south London flat was choked with fridges, cheese presses built from scrap metal, a terrarium pond fogger ("the kind you put in a lizard enclosure"), a bain-marie, and a set of diamond scales accurate to one-thousandth of a gram.
  • (9) Volumes of individual mitochondria ranged from as small as a few thousandths of a micron3 up to several micron3 for the incompletely reconstructed portions of the largest mitochondria.
  • (10) There’s tactics, strategy but I understand football as something unpredictable, because you have to decide in a thousandth of a second.
  • (11) They are tiny lozenge-shaped structures, a few thousandths of a millimetre long, and some human cells contain thousands of them.
  • (12) If top commanders already feel the war is lost, then the question must be asked for the thousandth time: why are we still fighting?
  • (13) They cover about one thousandth of the mammalian genome and include two major sets of cell surface products with different but related functions in the control of immune interactions, as well as genes for complement components and 21-hydroxylase.
  • (14) I hope that they will point out to the treasury that for much less than one thousandth part of total government expenditure, they create not just well-being but jobs; that for the pittance saved by cutting a few percentage points from our budget, the damage caused would be disproportionately savage.
  • (15) In contrast, the number of possible V region combinations in T-cell receptors is one hundredth to one thousandth that of immunoglobulins.
  • (16) CO was less than one thousandth as potent as NO as a relaxant.
  • (17) Agency: 72andSunny Director: Michael Downing BT Sport: 'Chelsea 6 v 0 Arsenal' (starts at 05:38) - UK Chelsea fans will not forget Arsene Wenger's thousandth game in charge of Arsenal in a hurry as they thrashed their North London rivals 6-0.
  • (18) Maximum permissible concentrations of 125I are one thousandth lower than 51Cr.
  • (19) Richard Herring is also back for what must be approaching his thousandth fringe, with a revival of his engrossing todger-based spectacular Talking Cock.
  • (20) It bound to cytosolic oestrogen receptors with only one thousandth the affinity of 4-hydroxytamoxifen and gave a correspondingly very weak inhibition of growth of the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line.

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