Should i use thus

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How should I use "thus" in this sentence? Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 6 months ago. Active 3 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 2k times. They can thus take advantage of this technology They thus can take advantage of this technology Thus they can take advantage of this technology Thanks in advance! Improve this question. JJ74 Jun Therefore: This thing inflates when you blow into it and is made of rubber; therefore, it is a balloon.

Monk Aug It sounds weird to me some stuff you wrote. As far as I know, "Thus" is used for conclusions in the past. The troops fought to a standstill, thus no winner was declared. Unlike "Hence" which is used for future.

I'm broke, hence I will walk rather than taking the bus. Don't forget the word "Thereby", which is very important as well. In the case: ": This thing is a balloon, and thus is made of rubber and inflates when you blow into it. But I'm not sure. What do u think? Irvin Nov Interesting point Irvin, about the word "Thereby".

Nowadays, it seems that it has become increasingly replaced with the word "Therefore". They are oftentimes used interchangeably, however, there does appear to be a difference between their definitions. After contemplating many various examples, I cannot think of a specific case in which the use of one of the adverbs is favored over the other. In every example, it appears that both words can be successfully interchanged.

I would love to see an example that proves otherwise. More often than not, I'm fairly sure that it comes down to the individual writer to determine which of these words, along with hence, thus, etc. Ex: After weeks of intense debates, the delegates finally came to an accord and signed the Nuclear Disarmament Treaty, which thereby calls for the immediate and complete abolition of nuclear arms.

I thought I had just thought of one, but I guess "therefore" also works here. However, I feel that "thereby" looks more formal, which appeals to the context, and sounds slightly better than "therefore".

Although, grammatically speaking - both are explicitly correct. And just to be a certified grammar nerd, in reference to your example, "I'm broke, hence I will walk rather than taking the bus.

Furthermore, for the last part. Wouldn't it sound even better if that sentence became "This thing is a balloon, thereby it is made of rubber"? Basically remove the "and" while adding the "it". Moreover, replacing "thereby" with "therefore" in this example still works perfectly. And for some reason, I think "therefore" sounds better in this case. Any thoughts? Alexander Jan Alexander - I more or less agree with your definition of 'thereby', although I'd tend more to 'in this way, in this manner'.

But the use in your examples is not how I understand the way we use thereby:. In each case it means 'in this way'. You could no doubt substitute therefore in all these examples, but I think the meaning would be slightly different - it would simply mean 'consequently'.

But interestingly, I think you could replace 'thereby' in all these dictionary examples with 'so', which seems to be able to mean both 'therefore' and 'in this way'. Sorry, but I don't really get the logic here.

It doesn't call for this because the debates came to an end or because the delegates signed the accord. Personally, I wouldn't use either 'thereby' or 'therefore' here. And I don't think this one works either - "This thing is a balloon, thereby it is made of rubber". My dictionary defines 'thereby' as being - "used to introduce the result of the action or situation mentioned". Great responsibility is thus thrown on the skip in the choice of his players, who are selected for well-defined reasons.

Thus though earlier Indian and Bactrian coins do not show it it is found with the gods on some of the coins of the Indian kings Kanishka, Huvishka and Vasudeva, 58 B. Thus the essence of Ritschl's work is systematic theology.

His work in founding the kingdom was a personal vocation, the spirit of which He communicates to believers, " thus , as exalted king," sustaining the life of His Kingdom. It was probably in that he married Eanfled, daughter of Edwin, thus uniting the two rival dynasties of Northumbria.

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Thus , the sons inherited their fathers' hunting-ground, but bore their mothers' name and therewith the right to certain women for wives. Before quitting the bay the ceremony was performed of hoisting the Union Jack, first on the south shore, and then near the north head, formal possession of the territory being thus taken for the British crown. By this time much had thus been done to obtain an acquaintance with the eastern parts of the Australian continent, although the problem of what could become of the large rivers flowing north-west and south-west into the interior was still unsolved.

The men who had thus abandoned the depot rejoined the main body of the expedition under Wright, who at length moved to Cooper's Creek, and, incredible to relate, neglected to search for the missing explorers. Thus he came at length to stand on the verge of the Indian Ocean; " gazing upon it," a writer has said, " with as much delight as Balboa, when he crossed the Isthmus of Darien from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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The award of the court is thus the equivalent of the determination of a special board in Victoria, and deals with the same questions, the most important of which are the minimum rates of wages and the number of working hours per week.

The Commonwealth legislation thus made provision for the aged poor in the three states which up to had not accepted the principle of old age pensions, and also for those who, owing to their having resided in more than one state, were debarred from receiving pension in any. The money thus obtained was appropriated in part to naval defence and harbours, and in part to the provision of old age pensions under the Federal Old Age Pension Act of In spite of the official rebuff received from the mother-country, the Australian ministry, in drawing up the new Federal tariff, gave a substantial preference to British imports, and thus showed their willingness to go farther.

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Boole showed that elective symbols of this kind obey the same primary laws of combination as algebraical symbols, whence it followed that they could be added, subtracted, multiplied and even divided, almost exactly in the same manner as numbers. Thus , 1 - x would represent the operation of selecting all things in the world except horned things, that is, all not horned things, and 1 - x 1 - y would give us all things neither horned nor sheep.

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On the formation of the Wirth ministry in May he was appointed Minister of Reconstruction, and in that capacity negotiated with the French minister, Loucheur, a convention for supplying German materials for the restoration of the devastated area in France, and thus paying in kind part of the reparation which the German Reich had undertaken to pay in gold.

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The railway map of the state thus has roughly the appearance of a gridiron. Samuel de Champlain, as governor of Quebec, entered what is now Vermont in July in an expedition against the Iroquois, and thus laid the basis for the French claim.

Among later residents commemorated is Edward Lloyd, who was the first person to show the value of esparto grass for the manufacture of paper, and thus started an industry which is one of the most important in Algeria.

The spreading branches have a tendency to assume a tortuous form, owing to the central shoots becoming abortive, and the growth thus being continued laterally, causing a zigzag development, more exaggerated in old trees and those standing in From Kotschy, op.

Oak was thus applied at a very early date; the shrine of Edward the Confessor, still existing in the abbey at Westminster, sound after the lapse of Boo years, is of dark-coloured oak-wood. My desires, volitions and thoughts are thus the desires, volitions and thoughts of God. He was thus important as the precursor of Malebranche and Spinoza. The Roman Catholic landowners lost their estates, all or part according to their degree of guilt, and these were distributed among Cromwell's soldiers and the creditors of the government; Cromwell also invited new settlers from home and from New England, two-thirds of the whole land of Ireland being thus transferred to new proprietors.

He sent 14, men into Fifeshire and marched to Perth, which he captured on the 2nd of August, thus cutting off Leslie from the north and his supplies.

This movement, however, left open the way to England, and Charles immediately marched south, in reality thus giving Cromwell the wished-for opportunity of crushing the royalists finally and decisively. Thus in the Sandwich Islands the god Oro gave his oracles through a priest who "ceased to act or speak as a voluntary agent, but with his limbs convulsed, his features distorted and terrific, his eyes wild and strained, he would roll on the ground roaming at the mouth, and reveal the will of the god in shrill cries and sounds violent and indistinct, which the attending priests duly interpreted to the people.

His career was thus analogous to that of St Patrick in Ireland. The mean depth over this ridge is about fathoms, and the maximum depth nowhere reaches fathoms. The main basin of the Atlantic is thus cut off from the Arctic basin, with which the area north of the ridge has complete deep-water communication.

He thus threw in his lot with the Scottish philosophy, and his first dissertations are, in their leading position, adaptations from Reid's Inquiry. His deeds are thus described in the Liber Pontificalis: " Hic regiones dividit diaconibus et fecit vii subdiacones, qui vii notariis imminerent, ut gestas martyrum integro fideliter colligerent, et multas fabricas per cymiteria fieri praecepit.

Thus from a document of uncertain date, possibly about the time of Alfred the Great, and translated by Stubbs Select Charters as "Of people's ranks and laws," we learn"And if a ceorl throve, so that he had fully five hides of his own land, church and kitchen, bellhouse and burh-gate-seat, and special duty in the king's hall, then was he thenceforth of thegn-right worthy.

In addition to the thegns there were others who were thegns on account of their birth, and thus thegnhood was partly inherited and partly acquired.

Thus perished at the age of thirty-six one of the most chivalrous and gifted of a gallant band of brothers, four of whom laid down their lives in their country's cause. Berruyer, who was in sole command, ordered the drums to beat and thus drowned the last words of the king's speech. Thus if the instrument depends on the pressure or suction effect alone, and this pressure or suction is measured against the air pressure in an ordinary room, in which the doors and windows are carefully closed and a newspaper is then burnt up the chimney, an effect may be produced equal to a wind of io m.

Thus we recognize that the work done varies as the resistance overcome and the distance through which it is overcome conjointly. Thus the estimation of kinetic energy is intimately affected by the choice of our base of measurement. It was long believed that work done against such forces was lost, and it was not till the r9th century that the energy thus transformed was traced; the conservation of energy has become the master-key to unlock the connexions in inanimate nature.

The amount of heat absorbed by the air could thus be measured, while the work done by it in expanding could be readily calculated. Thus the principle of Carnot involves the conclusion that a greater proportion of the heat possessed by a body at a high temperature can be converted into work than in the case of an equal quantity of heat possessed by a body at a low temperature, so that the availability of heat increases with the temperature.

When the pressure on one side of the diaphragm thus becomes greater than that on the other, work may be done at the expense of heat in pushing the diaphragm, and the operation carried on with continual gain of work until the gases are uniformly diffused. In all cases there is a general tendency for other forms of energy to be transformed into heat on account of the friction of rough surfaces, the resistance of conductors, or similar causes, and thus to lose availability.

Thus we justify, on grounds of instrumentation, laws usually known as laws of harmony and counterpoint. These instruments thus produced, in Haydn's and Beethoven's times, a very remarkable but closely limited series of effects, which, as Sir George Macfarren pointed out in the article "Music" in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, gave them a peculiar character and function in strongly asserting the main notes of the key.

Thus there were no string-quartets, before Haydn - at least none that can be distinguished from: symphonies for string-band. Thus there was quite as much important solo music for the flute as for the violin; and almost more music for the viola da gamba than for the violoncello.