{
  "id": "thank.social",
  "term": "thank",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "thank",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to express gratitude as a social response to others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "polite.social",
      "response.behavioral",
      "act.deed",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "express.communication",
      "social.relational"
    ],
    "interaction": "Polite and a response together form an act that communicates appreciation toward others in a social context.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "acknowledges relational impact",
      "communicative intent",
      "reciprocal social gesture"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, a Japanese commuter bowed to a station attendant who returned his lost wallet on the Yamanote Line in Tokyo.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars Rover mission team at JPL applauded and exchanged thanks after receiving the first signal from Perseverance on Martian soil.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, villagers in Aceh handed fish and rice to foreign aid workers who delivered clean water.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "act.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "thank",
    "thanked",
    "thanking",
    "thanks"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts express.communication and social.relational; tightened definition to reflect genuine emergence from components without circularity or omission."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-thank.social"
}