| theme | |
| 1. n. A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic. | |
| 2. n. A recurring idea; a motif. | |
| 3. n. (dated) An essay written for school. | |
| 4. n. (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations. | |
| 5. n. (film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time. | |
| 6. n. (computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif. | |
| 7. n. (grammar) The stem of a word. | |
| 8. n. (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb. | |
| 9. n. (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory. | |
| 10. n. (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme. | |
| 11. n. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire. | |
| 12. v. To give a theme to. | |
| We themed the birthday party around superheroes. | |
| 13. v. (computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software). | |
