them.html - noun
(Lifestyle and Leisure) An amusement park organized on a particular theme or based on a unifying idea, with each attraction linked in some way to the theme. Etymology: Formed by compounding: a park organized round a theme. History and Usage: The first theme parks were modelled on the American Disneyland in the sixties. During the late sixties and seventies, several such parks were set up outside the US, but it was not until the late seventies and early eighties that the leisure industry took up the idea in a big way in the UK and started to apply it in other contexts. In the mid eighties, for example, the principle was applied to catering outlets in the UK, resulting in the theme pub and theme restaurant, in which each aspect of design and atmosphere was related to a particular unifying theme. Theme parks came in for some criticism from environmentalists in the late eighties, since they take up large tracts of countryside and are felt by some to be an eyesore. Grand Metropolitan's Host Group...is to spend well over

100m over the next three years on converting its outlets to a wide range of theme pubs. The Times 4 Nov. 1983, p.
17 Local conservationists are even more horrified by a new proposal --including a Disney-style theme park --covering 1,000 acres. Holiday Which? Sept. 1989, p.
176 The long-awaited plan is the product of months of work by Disney 'imagineers', who conjured up Port Disney, a complex of waterfront dining, a marina, a theme park that explores the 'mysteries of the sea', and steel cages under water where tourists can swim with sharks. San Jose Mercury 1 Aug. 1990, section B, p. 8

them.html - pron. & adj. --pron.
1 objective case of THEY (I saw them).
2 colloq. they (it's them again; is older than them).
3 archaic themselves (they fell and hurt them). --adj.

sl. or dial. those (them bones). [ME theim f. ON: see THEY]

them.html - adj.
1 of or relating to subjects or topics (thematic philately; the arrangement of the anthology is thematic).
2 Mus. of melodic subjects (thematic treatment).
3 Gram. a of or belonging to a theme (thematic vowel; thematic form). b (of a form of a verb) having a thematic vowel.

thematic catalogue Mus. a catalogue giving the opening themes of works as well as their names and other details.

thematically adv. [Gk thematikos (as THEME)]

them.html - n.
1 a subject or topic on which a person speaks, writes, or thinks.
2 Mus. a prominent or frequently recurring melody or group of notes in a composition.
3 US a school exercise, esp. an essay, on a given subject.
4 Gram. the stem of a noun or verb; the part to which inflections are added, esp. composed of the root and an added vowel.
5 hist. any of the 29 provinces in the Byzantine empire.

theme park an amusement park organized round a unifying idea. theme song (or tune)
1 a recurrent melody in a musical play or film.
2 a signature tune. [ME teme ult. f. Gk thema -matos f. tithemi set, place]

them.html - pron.
1 a emphat. form of THEY or THEM. b refl. form of THEM; (cf. HERSELF).
2 in their normal state of body or mind (are quite themselves again).

be themselves act in their normal, unconstrained manner.

them.html - {n.}, {slang} 1. A low class, blighted and ill-maintained place, motel room or apartment. * /Max, this motel is the pits, I will not sleep here!/ 2. The end of the road, the point of no return, the point of total ruin of one's health (from the drug anticulture referring to the arm-pits as the only place that had veins for injections). * /John flunked high school this year for the third time; he will never get to college; it's the pits for him./ 3. A very depressed state of mind. * /Poor Marcy is down in the pits over her recent divorce./