Definition

1. Noun:

   • Autumn; (US) Fall: The season between summer and winter, characterized by milder weather and the falling of leaves from deciduous trees.
   • (Literary) Year: A poetic or literary term for a year, used to measure the passage of time.

2. Verb:

   • To collect; to gather; to receive: To bring together or take in items, money, or information from various sources.
   • To obtain; to achieve; to gain: To get or secure something as a result of effort or a process.
   • To record: To capture and store sound or images using a device.
   • To retract; to pull in; to fold: To draw something inward or make it smaller and more compact.
   • To reduce; to condense: To make something smaller in scope, size, or extent.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • Thời tiết mùa thu thật mát mẻ. (The weather in autumn is very cool.)
  • Đã ba thu xa cách. (Three years of separation have passed.)

• Verb:

  • Nhân viên đang thu bài kiểm tra. (The staff is collecting the test papers.)
  • Chúng tôi thu được kết quả rất khả quan. (We obtained very promising results.)
  • Ban nhạc sẽ thu album mới vào tuần tới. (The band will record their new album next week.)
  • Con mèo thu móng lại. (The cat retracted its claws.)
  • Họ cần thu bài phát biểu cho ngắn gọn hơn. (They need to condense the speech to make it shorter.)

Advanced Usage

• "thu mình": To shrink back; to withdraw into oneself (often due to shyness, fear, or cold).

  • Cô bé thu mình vào góc phòng. (The little girl shrank back into the corner of the room.)

• "thu vào tầm mắt": To take in (a view); to have within one's sight.

  • Từ đỉnh đồi, anh ấy thu vào tầm mắt toàn cảnh thung lũng. (From the hilltop, he took in the entire valley view.)

Variants and Related Words

• Thu nhận (v): To receive; to admit; to accept (information, signals, members).

  • Máy tính thu nhận dữ liệu. (The computer receives data.)

• Thu hồi (v): To recall; to withdraw; to retrieve (products, documents).

  • Công ty thu hồi lô xe bị lỗi. (The company recalled the faulty batch of cars.)

• Thu hoạch (v/n): To harvest; a harvest.

  • Nông dân đang thu hoạch lúa. (The farmers are harvesting rice.)

Synonyms

• Autumn/Fall: The third season.
• Collect: To gather together.
• Obtain: To acquire.
• Record: To capture media.
• Retract: To draw back in.

Related Idioms

• "Thu không chi nổi": Income does not cover expenditure; unable to make ends meet.

  • Công ty nhỏ thu không chi nổi. (The small company's income does not cover its expenditure.)

• "Một ngày đằng đẵng xem bằng ba thu": A single dragging day feels as long as three years (to express how slowly time passes when waiting or longing).

  • Chờ đợi tin tức, tôi cảm thấy một ngày đằng đẵng xem bằng ba thu. (Waiting for news, I felt a single day was as long as three years.)

noun

1. autumn;(Mỹ) fall

verb

1. to collect to get back; to recall to obtain, to