{
  "id": "thanks.social",
  "term": "thanks",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A polite action directed toward another",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "act.deed",
      "polite.social",
      "action.deed",
      "toward.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a polite action is directed toward another, it produces thanks",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recognition of benefit received",
      "social closure through acknowledgment",
      "asymmetric positive valuation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "At the 2019 Nobel Prize banquet, each laureate shook the king's hand and said 'tack' in Swedish.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars rover Curiosity transmitted a preprogrammed 'thanks for support' signal to NASA's Deep Space Network on August 6, 2017.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In Osaka, customers at a 7-Eleven store bowed slightly while saying 'arigato' after receiving change on March 12, 2022.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "act.deed",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a form of action"
    },
    {
      "id": "polite.social",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "characterized by politeness"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "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 but conceptually necessary components 'action.deed' and 'toward.spatial' to align with definition, which was marginally adjusted for precision without altering meaning."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-thanks.social"
}