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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
these
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on these lines (=this way)
▪ More groups will now be set up on these lines.
such as this/these
▪ There is now a greater awareness of problems such as these.
these days (=at the present period)
▪ Everyone seems to be in a hurry these days.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
along these/those lines
▪ Democritus drew up a map along these lines.
▪ Different proposals along these lines have already been introduced by members of Congress from both parties.
▪ Frankly, I had nothing to share along those lines.
▪ I was getting a lot of work along these lines in the theater.
▪ In fact, I was thinking I might try and start something along those lines as soon as I can.
▪ It would be quite wrong to claim that it gave us orders along those lines.
▪ Opposition leaders are afraid to give Milosevic the pretext to use more brutality and proclaim martial law or something along those lines.
▪ The parties have made promises along these lines.
in/round these parts
▪ But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
▪ Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.
▪ Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
▪ It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts.
▪ Llewelyn's well served in these parts, it seems.
▪ Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts.
▪ There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts.
▪ Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
these four walls
▪ I don't want anything that I have said repeated outside these four walls.
▪ I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls.
▪ What purpose did she serve sitting looking at these four walls?
these things happen
▪ It was a tough loss, but these things happen.
▪ But if neither of these things happen, Labour will be forced to decide whether it is prepared to raise taxes.
▪ But these things happen at Catalina.
▪ Every now and again you're going to get exceptional circumstances and these things happen once in a while.
▪ In the event none of these things happened.
▪ In the way these things happen, the oppressed are sometimes revealed to have a hold on the oppressors.
▪ Once in a while these things happen and then you can communicate better.
▪ Possibly you see a great number of these things happening in your school, or perhaps you see very few.
▪ When these things happen, death flashes before our eyes.
these/British/our etc shores
▪ Even after the Renaissance and the rebirth of learning had reached these shores ears were still having a rough ride.
▪ His job was to show the captains of industry who came to these shores how to relax.
▪ In fact, nobody had made paved roads in Britain since the Romans left our shores.
▪ Meanwhile, beyond our shores, the world's industrial practices and capacities advanced.
▪ More than six centuries ago they had left these shores for Hamgyong Province in the North in search of a better life.
▪ The battle was lost, though, when many in high places yielded to pressures from beyond these shores.
▪ The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.
▪ What would happen to us if 10,000 of them showed up on our shores?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
These

These \These\ ([th][=e]z), pron. [OE. [thorn]es, [thorn][ae]s, a variant of [thorn]as, pl. of [thorn]es, thes, this. See This, and cf. Those.] The this. See This.

These

This \This\ ([th][i^]s), pron. & a.; pl. These ([th][=e]z). [OE. this, thes, AS. [eth][=e]s, masc., [eth]e['o]s, fem., [eth]is, neut.; akin to OS. these, D. deze, G. dieser, OHG. diser, deser, Icel. [thorn]essi; 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
these

Old English þæs, variant of þas (which became those and took the role of plural of that), nominative and accusative plural of þes, þeos, þis "this" (see this). Differentiation of these and those is from late 13c. OED begins its long entry with the warning, "This word has a complicated history."

Wiktionary
these

det. (plural of this English) pron. (plural of this English)

Wikipedia
These
  • In English, these is the plural proximal demonstrative.
  • In Etruscan mythology, these is a version of the Greek Theseus.

Usage examples of "these".

To all these improvements may be added an assiduous attention to mines and fisheries, which, by employing a multitude of laborious hands, serve to increase the pleasures of the rich and the subsistence of the poor.

Almost all the flowers, the herbs, and the fruits, that grow in our European gardens, are of foreign extraction, which, in many cases, is betrayed even by their names: the apple was a native of Italy, and when the Romans had tasted the richer flavor of the apricot, the peach, the pomegranate, the citron, and the orange, they contented themselves with applying to all these new fruits the common denomination of apple, discriminating them from each other by the additional epithet of their country.

With these moderate views, Augustus stationed two permanent fleets in the most convenient ports of Italy, the one at Ravenna, on the Adriatic, the other at Misenum, in the Bay of Naples.

Besides these two ports, which may be considered as the principal seats of the Roman navy, a very considerable force was stationed at Frejus, on the coast of Provence, and the Euxine was guarded by forty ships, and three thousand soldiers.

However these principles of composition may demand more than ordinary attention on the part of the reader, they can alone impress upon the memory the real course, and the relative importance of the events.

The former of these cautions will be briefly suggested in its proper place, but it may be as well to state it, here, somewhat more at length.

The experience of Augustus added weight to these salutary reflections, and effectually convinced him that, by the prudent vigor of his counsels, it would be easy to secure every concession which the safety or the dignity of Rome might require from the most formidable barbarians.

To all these we add the fleet which preserved the communication between Gaul and Britain, and a great number of vessels constantly maintained on the Rhine and Danube, to harass the country, or to intercept the passage of the barbarians.

To these we may add a third distinction for the body of the natives in Syria, and especially in Egypt, the use of their ancient dialects, by secluding them from the commerce of mankind, checked the improvements of those barbarians.

Even these chosen freedmen obtained no more than the private rights of citizens, and were rigorously excluded from civil or military honors.

Among a crowd of these private benefactors, we may select Herodes Atticus, an Athenian citizen, who lived in the age of the Antonines.

All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire.

Whatever suspicions may be suggested by the air of rhetoric and declamation, which seems to prevail in these passages, the substance of them is perfectly agreeable to historic truth.

To these accumulated honors, the policy of Augustus soon added the splendid as well as important dignities of supreme pontiff, and of censor.

In the election of these magistrates, the people, during the reign of Augustus, were permitted to expose all the inconveniences of a wild democracy.