the

definite article used to specify one person or item in particular (Grammar)

(Grammar) word used to modify adjectives and adverbs and show relation between two conditions (i.e. The more I study, the more I learn)

THE is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven (Eindhoven University of Technology), a Dutch university of technologyTHE multiprogramming system, a computer operating system which was developed there under Edsger DijkstraThe Hessling Editor, a text editor modeled on the VM/CMS editor XEDITThe Human Equation, an album by progressive metal musical project AyreonThe Humane Environment (now known as Archy), designed by human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin
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An article is a word that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. The three main articles in the English language are the, an and a. An article is sometimes called a Noun marker, although this is generally considered to be an archaic term. It is sometimes wondered which part of speech articles belong to. Since articles modify nouns, either alone or in combination with an adjective, they are sometimes classed as adjectives. However, some linguists place them in a different category, that of determiners.Articles can have various functions:A definite article (English the) is used before singular and plural nouns that refer to a particular member of a group.The cat is on the black mat.An indefinite article (English a, an) is used before singular nouns that refer to any member of a group.A cat is a mammal.A partitive article indicates an indefinite quantity of a mass noun; there is no partitive article in English, though the words some or any often have that function.French: Voulez-vous du café ? ("Do you want some coffee?" or "Do you want coffee?")A zero article is the absence of an article (e.g. English indefinite plural), used in some languages in contrast with the presence of one. Linguists hypothesize the absence as a zero article based on the X-bar theory.Cats are mammals.
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n. tea, evergreen shrub of eastern Asia; dried leaves of the tea plant; drink made from water filtered through tea leaves or other dried leaves

n. tea, evergreen shrub of eastern Asia; drink made from water filtered through tea leaves or other dried leaves

(v. i.)
See Thee.
  

(definite article.)
A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.
  

(adv.)
By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.