thus

adv 1: (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or

reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true";

"the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were

young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we

must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be

trusted" [syn: {therefore}, {hence}, {thence}]

2: in the way indicated; "hold the brush so"; "set up the

pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant) [syn: {thusly},

{so}]

thud

1. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}). It is

reported that at {CMU} from the mid-1970s the canonical series

of these was "foo", "bar", "thud", "blat".

2. Rare term for the hash character, "#" (ASCII 35). See

{ASCII} for other synonyms.

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