THIS
Etymology
Determiner
this
The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
(informal) A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a certain ...".
(of a time reference) Designates the current or next instance.
Adverb
this (not comparable)
To the degree or extent indicated.
Pronoun
this (plural these)
The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
• This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars […] — Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1. Scene 2.
Noun
this (plural thises)
(philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
(computer) Referring to the current context in a programming environment in C-like languages.
Interjection
this
(Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.
Synonyms
• +1
• IAWTP
• QFT
Anagrams
• HITs, Hist, Tish, hist, hist-, hist., hits, iths, shit, sith, tish
Source: Wiktionary
This, pron. & a.; pl. These. Etym: [OE. this, thes, AS. th\'c7s,
masc., theĂłs, fem., this, neut.; akin to OS. these, D. deze, G.
dieser, OHG. diser, deser, Icel. Ăžessi; originally from the definite
article + a particle -se, -si; cf. Goth. sai behold. See The, That,
and cf. These, Those.]
1. As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present
or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is
just about to be mentioned.
When they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37.
But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what
watch the thief would come, he would have watched. Matt. xxiv. 43.
2. As an adjective, this has the same demonstrative force as the
pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this way to town.
Note: This may be used as opposed or correlative to that, and
sometimes as opposed to other or to a second this. See the Note under
That, 1.
This way and that wavering sails they bend. Pope.
A body of this or that denomination is produced. Boyle.
Their judgment in this we may not, and in that we need not, follow.
Hooker.
Consider the arguments which the author had to write this, or to
design the other, before you arraign him. Dryden.
Thy crimes . . . soon by this or this will end. Addison.
Note: This, like a, every, that, etc., may refer to a number, as of
years, persons, etc., taken collectively or as a whole.
This twenty years have I been with thee.. Gen. xxxi. 38.
I have not wept this years; but now My mother comes afresh into my
eyes. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition