THANK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they thank ... he / she / it thanks

Past simple: thanked

Past participle: thanked

-ing form: thanking

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express gratitude or show appreciation to

Synonyms:

give thanks; thank

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "thank" is one way to...):

convey ((of information) make known; pass on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "thank"):

acknowledge; recognise; recognize (express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Credits

Context examples:

"Oh, thank you—thank you!" cried the Scarecrow.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The Cambridge researchers say the reason they have been able to make theirs produce syngas sustainably is thanks the combination of materials and catalysts they used.

(‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas, University of Cambridge)

Many thanks to you for what you have told me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Most of these diseases are now at their lowest levels in history, thanks to years of immunization.

(Childhood Immunization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

This promise drew from me the warmest thanks.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

No, I thank you, I have nothing to trouble you with.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He received it with abundance of thanks, more than such a trifle could deserve.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Undoubtedly; and after all you have no thanks for it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It will please him very much, and be a nice way of thanking him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

November 28 brings joyful news about money, thanks to a collaboration between Venus in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus.