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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thank
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a letter of thanks/introduction/complaint etc
▪ I finally got a letter of apology from the company.
express your thanks/gratitude/appreciation (=say thank you to someone, in a speech)
▪ On behalf of the team, I’d like to express our appreciation for all your efforts.
extend...thanks
▪ I’d like to extend my thanks to all the catering staff.
grateful thanks
▪ Our grateful thanks go to all who participated.
I’m fine (thanks/thank you)spoken (= used when telling someone that you do not want any more when they offer you something)
▪ ‘More coffee?’ ‘No, I’m fine, thanks.’
I’m fine (thanks/thank you)spoken (= used when telling someone that you do not want any more when they offer you something)
▪ ‘More coffee?’ ‘No, I’m fine, thanks.’
No thanks
▪ ‘Do you want any more?’ ‘No thanks.’
say thank you
▪ I just wanted to say thank you for being there.
sincere thanks/thank you/gratitude
▪ I would like to say a sincere thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me.
sincere thanks/thank you/gratitude
▪ I would like to say a sincere thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me.
thank sb for an invitation
▪ I'll have to write a letter thanking Martha for the invitation to her wedding.
thank you for your kind invitation/offer (=said when thanking someone very politely for their invitation or offer)
Thank you very much
Thank you very much, Brian.
thank you
▪ Margaret handed him the butter. ‘Thank you,’ said Samuel.
vote of thanks
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
friend
▪ Mr. Hayward I thank my hon. Friend for that answer.
▪ Mr. Needham I am sure that all the people of Belfast would like to thank my hon. Friend for her comments.
▪ Mrs. Heal I thank my hon. Friend for that helpful intervention.
▪ We thank all our friends at Q.P.B.C. for their encouragement to us and for the love they have shown us.
god
▪ But not Security trained, thank the gods.
heaven
▪ Father in heaven, I thank you for your great love which banishes fear from my life.
help
▪ He then thanked them for their help during the appraisal period.
▪ Even as I thanked her for her help, I foresaw, with despair, what was going to come next.
▪ After he survived the vote, Mr Major went to the Whips' office to thank them for their help.
▪ Good-bye, Miss Morrow, and thanks for your help, which I suppose I will recover from.
▪ Anyway, thank you for your help.
▪ I thanked him for his help.
▪ On her way out of the library she thanked Molly for her help.
▪ The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere.
letter
▪ Bill had written one letter to thank me.
▪ If you have already posted a renewal or a new coupon since we prepared this letter thank you.
▪ The letters are arriving so thank you very much and please keep them coming.
▪ Only yesterday he received a letter from Mr Clinton thanking him for his support.
▪ Bob was wondering whether you got his letter thanking you for the book.
lord
▪ It won't last, thank the Lord.
▪ Then his cab got stuck in traffic, for which I thanked the Lord.
▪ She thanked the Lord there had been none since Lily.
▪ Then they sank back into armchairs, thanking the Lord that never again in their lives would they move house.
note
▪ I send it to the individual's home and I include a personal note from me thanking him for his achievement.
opportunity
▪ Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support.
▪ I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown.
▪ We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you and wish her a very happy retirement.
▪ It is intended to accredit these individually as used but we would like to take the opportunity of thanking Mr Gilson now.
▪ As usual the Dinner was used as an opportunity to say thank you to those from outside Convocation who had discharged some service.
▪ May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society.
▪ We would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have written to us.
stars
▪ He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape.
▪ The Bruins this morning are thanking their lucky stars for goaltender Bill Ranford.
■ VERB
like
▪ The Singers would like to thank everyone who contributed.
▪ I would like to thank you for the interest you have shown in this post.
▪ On behalf of Council 80 of Stockport, I would like to thank everyone who made it such a successful evening.
▪ I would like to thank the headteacher and staff of the school and the local advisers for making this study possible.
▪ It would, however, like to thank Terry Mansfield, National Magazine's managing director.
say
▪ And to say thank you for that lovely picnic.
▪ I don't - I just say thank you and goodbye, then I go off up the road.
▪ Looking for a way to say thank you to some one special in your life?
▪ The chorus girls kissed him on the cheek for gratitude and the men smiled and said thank you.
▪ She said thank you only when ordered to do so.
▪ I think it's whisky or summat, so I say no thank you.
▪ She looks up at the sky and says thank you.
want
▪ Staff want to thank shopkeepers who support the hospice by keeping collection boxes on their counters.
▪ Rusty and I both want to thank you for taking the time to meet.
▪ Well, I wanted to say thank you.
▪ As she leaves, she has a list of 14 people and places she wants to thank.
▪ Mrs Adams wanted to say thank you publicly.
▪ I want to thank you for your support of me.
▪ She left a message on his answering machine: Nick, I wanted to thank you for last night.
wish
▪ I particularly wish to thank the Casualty department and Ward 9 from where I was released.
▪ I wish to thank the Endsleigh Community for hosting our meetings in Hull.
▪ We wish to thank both these bodies for the support without which the Conference could not have taken place.
▪ The Humane Research Trust raised £160.30 during a collection in Huyton recently, and wish to thank the people for their generosity.
▪ We wish to thank everyone who has contributed directly or indirectly to the preparation of this document.
▪ I wish to thank each and every one of you for the part you played during 1991.
▪ Cicely wishes to thank everyone who offered items.
write
▪ Bill had written one letter to thank me.
▪ I must write Victor a thank you.
▪ If you like the program, write and thank the developers.
▪ We had a splendid time and I just feel I had to write and thank you.
▪ He wrote back to thank me for it.
▪ Horrified, she realised she would have to write and thank everyone.
▪ One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended.
▪ I am writing to thank you for the Morrissey article.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I don't know how to thank you/repay you
a chorus of thanks/disapproval/protest etc
a word of warning/caution/advice/thanks etc
▪ And a word of advice just you be careful of that old goat, Moreton.
▪ And a word of warning - when you arrive in Hye-on-Wye beware of the second-hand bookshops.
▪ But business advisors in the city have sounded a word of caution.
▪ He would hand her a sheaf of uncounted bank notes, which she received without a word of thanks.
▪ However, a word of caution is in order.
▪ Now a word of warning about the stitch patterns in the pattern book.
▪ Take a word of advice, Mr Watt.
▪ You won't mind a word of advice?
debt of gratitude/thanks
▪ In addition to that great teacher of prayer, there were others to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.
▪ Some say it is because of Baba Firdaus and his holy life, others say because Amanullah Khan paid his debt of gratitude.
▪ The present writer owes him a particularly deep debt of gratitude.
▪ Their varied tasks in the Library have all contributed to its success and we owe them a very real debt of gratitude.
▪ We all owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we wish him well.
▪ We all owe Solly a deep debt of gratitude for his services to the cause of jazz for so many years.
many thanks
Many thanks for your letter of the other day.
▪ We received the pictures on Wednesday. Many thanks.
▪ Finally very many thanks are again due to everyone who contributed to this edition.
▪ Finally, many thanks to the parents and all the other folk who helped us by being part of the duty rota.
▪ I stood up swiftly, telling him many thanks for bothering.
▪ In anticipation, many thanks for your assistance.
▪ Letter from the Chairman Very many thanks to all of you who returned the questionnaire.
▪ Once again, many thanks for your assistance in this matter.
▪ Thanks to Sam Wright for the transcription and many thanks for reading.
▪ Very many thanks for your help.
no thanks
Thanks, but - no thanks!
▪ Carrie said we could do another screen but I said no thanks.
▪ He offers me a free go too but I just stick my nose in the air and say no thanks.
▪ I offer to buy him a fibreglass canoe but he says no thanks, he already has one.
▪ I threw the last one's sketches across his office and told him: shoddy, unexciting, no thanks.
▪ No great compliments, no thanks.
▪ She didn't think that there was anything broken ... but no thanks to Johnny, she thought bitterly.
no thanks to sb/sth
▪ Everyone got out safely, no thanks to the smoke alarm - its batteries were dead.
▪ Glorious because they came away with a victory over Rosslyn Park ... but no thanks to the quagmire at the Kingsholm ground.
▪ She didn't think that there was anything broken ... but no thanks to Johnny, she thought bitterly.
no, thank you
▪ "Would you like some more coffee?'' "No, thank you, I'm fine.''
propose a vote of thanks (to sb)
▪ Chairman Gerald Davies proposed a vote of thanks.
▪ I did listen to him proposing a vote of thanks occasionally, and I was always glad when he sat down.
thanks a lot
▪ "I forgot to bring your money." "Well, thanks a lot!"
▪ Gee, thanks a lot for saving me from Madonna in the morning.
▪ Hey, thanks a lot, Wyatt.
thanks to sb/sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A relieved Mr Maxwell thanked his lawyer profusely.
▪ I spent three hours helping her and she didn't even thank me.
▪ The Governor publicly thanked the people of Arizona for supporting him during his campaign.
▪ We must write and thank Cathy for the present.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After that lots of people stood up and thanked everybody.
▪ He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape.
▪ I thank all who have assisted the Bill's passage through the House.
▪ It is intended to accredit these individually as used but we would like to take the opportunity of thanking Mr Gilson now.
▪ She did not thank this nun for making her the centre of attention.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
thank

thank \thank\ (th[a^][ng]k), n.; pl. thanks (th[a^][ng]ks). [AS. [thorn]anc, [thorn]onc, thanks, favor, thought; akin to OS. thank favor, pleasure, thanks, D. & G. dank thanks, Icel. [thorn]["o]kk, Dan. tak, Sw. tack, Goth. [thorn]agks thanks; -- originally, a thought, a thinking. See Think.] A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural. ``This ceremonial thanks.''
--Massinger.

If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
--Luke vi. 33.

What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin?
--Milton.

Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught.
--Longfellow.

His thanks, Her thanks, etc., of his or her own accord; with his or her good will; voluntary. [Obs.]

Full sooth is said that love ne lordship, Will not, his thanks, have no fellowship.
--Chaucer.

In thank, with thanks or thankfulness. [Obs.]

Thank offering, an offering made as an expression of thanks.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thank

Old English þancian, þoncian "to give thanks, thank, to recompense, reward," from Proto-Germanic *thankojan (cognates: Old Saxon thancon, Old Norse þakka, Danish takke, Old Frisian thankia, Old High German danchon, Middle Dutch, Dutch, German danken "to thank"), from *thankoz "thought, gratitude," from PIE root *tong- "to think, feel."\n

\nRelated phonetically to think as song is to sing; for sense evolution, compare Old High German minna "loving memory," originally "memory." Related to Old English noun þanc, þonc, originally "thought," but by c.1000 "good thoughts, gratitude." In ironical use, "to blame," from 1550s. To thank (someone) for nothing is recorded from 1703. Related: Thanked; thanking.

Wiktionary
thank

Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) An expression of appreciation; a thought. Etymology 2

vb. (cx transitive English) To express gratitude or appreciation toward.

WordNet
thank

v. express gratitude or show appreciation to [syn: give thanks]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "thank".

As there is a kind of commutation in favors, when, to wit, a man gives thanks for a favor received, so also is there commutation in the matter of offenses, when, on account of an offense committed against another, a man is either punished against his will, which pertains to vindictive justice, or makes amends of his own accord, which belongs to penance, which regards the person of the sinner, just as vindictive justice regards the person of the judge.

Then, thanks to mark-to-market accounting, most of that could be booked as income.

He hardly knew whether to be angry with Donovan Farrant for alluding to matters which brought a look of sadness to her eyes, or to thank him for the story which made her face light up with indignation and look, if possible, more beautiful than before.

You must have thought poorly of us yesterday that I was not at the exit from the amphitheatre to meet and thank you.

I thank my sister Virginia for believing in me and appreciating my seminars.

I thank him, because it came appropriately from one not identified by his position with South Carolina.

Thanks to the effect of various gravities working on both the target sitebe it another ship, the Moon, or whereverand the ship launching the asteroid toward the target site, elliptical orbits and ever-changing flight times, successive approximations were the backbone of the asteroid-mining industry.

In addition I would like to thank my Anglophone editors on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Weldon at Heinemann, Jim Wade at Crown and John Pearce at Doubleday Canada, as well as my literary agents Bill Hamilton and Sara Fisher, for their continuing commitment, solidarity and wise counsel.

Then, thanks to me, the needle in the compass took its true direction again, and the ship, blown to the northeast by that frightful hurricane, has just been cast on the coast of Africa, just on this land of Angola which I wished to reach.

He dressed himself hurriedly, thanking God for that piece of good fortune, and went out assuring me that he would soon get me a gondola.

The crafty little creature thanked me, assuring her husband that the fresh air would soon cure her.

Silesian Sector thanks to the astrographic accident of the Manticore Junction.

For help with the astrophysics, I must gtive the greatest thanks to Larry Molnar, who provided long hours of thoughtful conversation on a subject that could quite easily have been classified as bizarre.

That autocratic piece of excrement, Varus, was not about to tell me anything, so I thank you for all this news.

And, thanks to your script on Autocue, who I just introduced as my next guest.