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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thereby
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
reducing
▪ This involves selling more government securities and thereby reducing banks' reserves when their customers pay for them from their bank accounts.
▪ Food product quality is more easily maintained thereby reducing spoilage losses and production time through unscheduled cleaning.
■ VERB
allow
▪ It exposes the reproductive parts of the flowers, thereby allowing pollinating insects to get at them.
avoid
▪ Fortunately band-pass and band-stop filters can be constructed from just capacitors and resistors, thereby avoiding the inductive problem.
▪ Neither should quotations be used to express an opinion and thereby avoid expressing your own opinion or using your own words.
▪ They thereby avoid commitment to any current fad that comes up on the whirligig of fashion.
become
▪ An incidental advantage of splitting pupillage is that you thereby become known in two places instead of one.
▪ It was here that they were forced to eat beef thereby becoming instantly de-Hinduized.
▪ Understanding the actual forms and extents of state intervention thereby becomes a largely empirical matter.
▪ Refusal in payment, forgery or any other misuse thereby became treason or sacrilege and attracted savage penalties.
▪ The combinations of words that form compounds thereby become number sequences which are stored in a compound tree.
▪ It thereby becomes inviolate until an equally vast majority decides otherwise.
▪ The cells in the club can specialize, each thereby becoming more efficient at performing its particular task.
bring
▪ For this purpose the Defence Operational Analysis Establishment was formed, thereby bringing together specialist staff from the three service departments.
▪ Consumer taste is thereby brought at least partly under its control.
cause
▪ The allegation was that the defendants had supplied contaminated water to the plaintiffs thereby causing them personal injury.
▪ It can also happen that one player can fuel the confidence of a teammate, thereby causing a prophecy to be fulfilled.
▪ However, it would certainly confuse the fox, thereby causing it to run erratically as described.
create
▪ They can thereby create patient expectation of the level of demand that will be serviced.
▪ The board prohibited the petition because it was controversial and would cause teachers to take opposing political positions, thereby creating discord.
▪ That union effaces at least a part of the gulf between mine and thine and thereby creates strength with happiness.
enable
▪ Borehole break-outs have been found to give an indication of stress anisotropy thereby enabling the fracture orientation to be predicted.
▪ Her main motive was simple: to retrieve the ring and thereby enable Rick to make peace with his family.
▪ I hope that this book provides others with insights, thereby enabling a scientific consensus to emerge.
ensure
▪ It is essential that the quality of the carpet is identified, thereby ensuring that we replace like with like.
▪ The other part of my proposal will probably prove annoying to radicals, thereby ensuring a proper balance.
▪ Garrick joined, and Adam Smith, thereby ensuring that Johnson did not always have the discourse his own way.
▪ Several cultigens are similarly flexible, e.g. coconut, in that pollination is thereby ensured in both open and closed habitats.
gain
▪ The government, however, did not thereby gain the allegiance of the higher social groups to the Republic.
▪ The learner will thereby gain a much greater understanding of the patient.
give
▪ Z is thereby given the option.
▪ In 1762 commoners were forbidden to purchase serfs, thereby giving noble industrialists a temporary advantage since hired labour was still scarce.
▪ The safer option is to start about fifteen percent further down the line, thereby giving yourself a little more room.
▪ Theodore thereby gave a wholly new dimension to the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury within the Anglo-Saxon Church.
▪ Moire pattern the result of superimposing half-tone screens at the wrong angle thereby giving a chequered effect on the printed half-tone.
help
▪ For example, one can fulfill the role of being a food server, and thereby help to alleviate hunger.
improve
▪ They can also be used with other forms of security, thereby improving the overall protection of a property.
▪ These fractures also provide the Stinkdolomit with an enhanced permeability thereby improving the potential productivity of the rocks.
▪ This was a rare opportunity to study the attenuation of strong seismic waves and thereby improve seismic hazard assessment.
increase
▪ Like pectin, psyllium forms a gel which is not digested or absorbed, thereby increasing the viscosity of the meal.
▪ Females tend to remain in their natal units, which thereby increase gradually in size.
▪ Its tip can stay alive and grow for many days, thereby increasing its chances of meeting a host.
▪ Similarly, branches may be short-staffed thereby increasing loading and unloading times.
▪ Occupiers also raise the internal temperature, thereby increasing the stack effect.
keep
▪ My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders, thereby keeping them out of custody.
▪ Copies of optometry feedback are sent to the patient's general practitioner, who is thereby kept informed of eye assessments.
▪ Bourgeois ideology takes over the legitimizing functions of traditional society and thereby keeps power relations inaccessible to analysis and public consciousness.
lose
▪ The perverted originality of Iago's ruse, now linked to a cause, thereby loses its lurid gleam.
make
▪ It is possible to re-use the tape, thereby making updating less expensive.
▪ Once again it did not honour its commitments, he says, thereby making a mockery of the Good Friday agreement.
▪ He thereby makes what happens, the smell, into what can properly be called a matter of real chance.
▪ Conventionality in a system of communication offers stability, and thereby makes communication feasible from one occasion to the next.
▪ Try to visualise the meaning of historical writing and thereby make the past come to life.
▪ As technology improves, thereby making it possible to set a lower emission standard, new sources face increasingly more strict controls.
prevent
▪ It acts by inhibiting bone resorption of calcium thereby preventing significant variations in plasma calcium concentrations.
produce
▪ Hyperkalemia moves the resting potential closer to the normal threshold potential, thereby producing a more excitable state.
▪ They mutate, and thereby produce at least some better replicating sequences.
provide
▪ The dog would perforce yelp in reaction, and thereby provide the captain a time cue.
reduce
▪ In a mass, however, the birds sometimes defend the nowers and thereby reduce cross-pollination.
▪ In these situations, acetazolamide may be needed to decrease proximal bicarbonate and sodium reabsorption, thereby reducing the serum bicarbonate level.
▪ Firms would find their inventories involuntarily building up and so would cut back production thereby reducing national income.
▪ Efficient management of creativity then succeeds in channeling these creative outputs into organizational goals, thereby reducing the wastage of resources.
▪ As the parse progresses down the input the incorrect hypotheses should fail; thereby reducing the search space to be explored.
▪ Parents and teachers note that work-inhibited children often play with younger children, thereby reducing the risk of defeat or rejection.
▪ The clear aim of the vendor is to disclose as much as possible thereby reducing the potential for claims under the warranties.
▪ Trace metal ions in the solution are thereby reduced and plated on to the anodic electrode.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He redesigned the process, thereby saving the company thousands of dollars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Efficient management of creativity then succeeds in channeling these creative outputs into organizational goals, thereby reducing the wastage of resources.
▪ It is essential that the quality of the carpet is identified, thereby ensuring that we replace like with like.
▪ The home thereby acquires a special significance; an institution protected by the males, if necessary by aggressive actions towards others.
▪ The whole emphasis is placed on the terms being negated, thereby reflecting a profound bias towards aggression as the norm.
▪ They express their anger by destroying their own lives and thereby hurting others, while seeming to be wide-eyed and innocent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thereby

Thereby \There*by"\, adv.

  1. By that; by that means; in consequence of that.

    Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.
    --Job xxii. 21.

  2. Annexed to that. ``Thereby hangs a tale.''
    --Shak.

  3. Thereabout; -- said of place, number, etc.
    --Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thereby

Old English þærbig "thus, by means of or because of that;" see there + by. Similar formation in Old Frisian therbi, Middle Low German darbi, German dabei, Dutch daarbij.

Wiktionary
thereby

adv. (context formal English) By it, by that.

WordNet
thereby

adv. by that means or because of that; "He knocked over the red wine, thereby ruining the table cloth"

Usage examples of "thereby".

And during the assigned interval the Judge shall diligently examine the copy of the appeal, and the reasons or objections upon which it is based, and shall consult with learned lawyers whether he shall submit negative apostils, that is, negative answers, and thereby disallow the appeal, or whether he shall allow the appeal and submit affirmative and fitting apostils to the Judge to whom the appeal is made.

In opposition to Gnosticism and Marcionitism, the main articles forming the estate and possession of orthodox Christianity were raised to the rank of apostolic regulations and laws, and thereby placed beyond all discussion and assault.

By sin man loses his ecclesiastical dignity, because thereby he becomes unworthy of those things which appertain to the exercise of the ecclesiastical dignity.

Finally, the contention has been made that in stressing the separate identities of a corporation and its stockholders, the Court overlooked the fact that when a surplus has been accumulated, the stockholders are thereby enriched, and that a stock dividend may therefore be appropriately viewed simply as a device whereby the corporation reinvests money earned in their behalf.

They never dreamed of associating the moral and intellectual emancipation of the individual with the conscious fulfillment of the American national purpose and with the patient and open-eyed individual and social discipline thereby demanded.

The anthropological presentation of non-European others within this evolutionary theory of civilizations served to confirm and validate the eminent position of Europeans and thereby legitimate the colonialist project as a whole.

Had the barghest, in killing the family, put the farmers of Maldobar on alert, thereby ruining a planned drow raid?

His Royal and Imperial Majesty, Vaughan the First, surnamed The Terrible, this planet is inviolate soil, bounden into the fiefdom of His Majesty as Duke of Trasimere, and thereby into the Empire.

On receiving the bone, the man at once smashes it, hastily buries it in a small pit beside the totemic emblem of the departed, and closes the opening with a large flat stone, signifying thereby that the season of mourning is over and that the dead man or woman has been gathered to his or her totem.

The country party affirmed, that Fitzharris had been employed by the court, in order to throw the odium of the libel on the exclusionists, and thereby give rise to a Protestant plot: the court party maintained, that the exclusionists had found out Fitzharris, a spy of the ministers, and had set him upon this undertaking, from an intention of loading the court with the imputation of such a design upon the exclusionists.

State from exercising such powers as are vested in it for the promotion of the common weal, or are necessary for the general good of the public, though contracts previously entered into between individuals may thereby be affected.

Graham Bell has lately been emphasizing the importance of longevity in this connection, and in our judgment he has thereby opened up a very fruitful field for education.

The thing that hung from the mainmast moved quickly in response, leaping through the rigging, changing the set of the sail, the tautness of the radian draws, and thereby the direction of the airship.

And the saint, wounded in his heart, cast the weapon of his malediction on this child of hell, who, pierced thereby, even at the moment breathed out his soul into the infernal regions.

Most philanthropy starts out unquestioningly with the assumption that by modifying the individual for the better, it will thereby improve the germinal quality of the race.