Thing
[θɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a separate and self-contained entity.
(noun.) an action; 'how could you do such a thing?'.
(noun.) an artifact; 'how does this thing work?'.
(noun.) an entity that is not named specifically; 'I couldn't tell what the thing was'.
(noun.) any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence; 'the thing I like about her is ...'.
(noun.) a special abstraction; 'a thing of the spirit'; 'things of the heart'.
(noun.) a special objective; 'the thing is to stay in bounds'.
(noun.) a statement regarded as an object; 'to say the same thing in other terms'; 'how can you say such a thing?'.
(noun.) an event; 'a funny thing happened on the way to the...'.
(noun.) a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; 'he has a thing about seafood'; 'she has a thing about him'.
(noun.) a special situation; 'this thing has got to end'; 'it is a remarkable thing'.
Edited by Bertram--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.
(n.) An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material.
(n.) A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed.
(n.) A portion or part; something.
(n.) A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.
(n.) Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things.
(n.) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person.
(n.) In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.
Edited by Beverly
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Being (animate or inanimate), creature, substance, body, object, created being.[2]. Inanimate object, lump of matter, lifeless substance.[3]. Event, transaction, deed, act, action, occurrence, circumstance, matter.[4]. Part, portion, something.
Inputed by Evelyn
Definition
n. a parliament or a court of law in Scandinavian countries.
n. an inanimate object: a living being (in tenderness or in contempt): an event: a part: (pl.) clothes wraps.—ns. Thing′iness reality objectivity: disposition to take a materialistic view of things; Thing′-in-itself′ a noumenon the Ger. ding an sich; Thing′umbob Thing′ummy (coll.) a thing anything an indefinite name for some person whom one cannot be troubled to name distinctly.—adj. Thing′y materialistic.—Do the handsome thing by to treat generously; Know a thing or two to be shrewd; Make a good thing of it to reap a good advantage from; The thing the proper or right thing.
Checker: Ronnie
Examples
- Marriage is a taming thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was a thing to look at. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- By only raising my voice, and saying any thing two or three times over, she is sure to hear; but then she is used to my voice. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It is sufficient if every thing be compleat in the object itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Here's a burial volume, just the thing! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- However probable it was to him, she had heard of no such thing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- May I ask you one thing more, Mr Rokesmith? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Aye, very true, my dear, cried the latter, though Jane had not spoken a wordI was just going to say the same thing. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I never will do a cruel thing, come what may. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For example, I said, can the same thing be at rest and in motion at the same time in the same part? Plato. The Republic.
- Mr Sampson murmured that this was the sort of thing you might expect from one who had ever in her own family been an example and never an outrage. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And I am glad of another thing, and that is, that of course you know you may depend upon my keeping it and always so far deserving it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We have been speaking of life in its lowest terms--as a physical thing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There seems to be a _limit of growth_ for every kind of living thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Women are certainly quicker in some things than men. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I'm frank and open; considering all things, it was very kind of you to allude to the circumstance--very kind and polite. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I had settled things with father and mother. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Beaufort's secret, people were agreed, was the way he carried things off. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I prefer unlucky things. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That horse certainly did things for him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In connection with the adoption of this lubricating system there occurred another instance of his knowledge of materials and intuitive insight into the nature of things. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Did you ever see any one who was kind to such things? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was in vain for Annie to protest that she was weary of such things. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That is not the way things come about: we grow into a new point of view: only afterwards, in looking back, do we see the landmarks of our progress. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I want some money, you know, Aunt--some to buy little things for myself--and he doesn't give me any. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You will set things going in a better way, I am sure. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- There were, in fact, but few things which Luttrell did not vote a tax on life, being one of the most dissatisfied men I ever knew. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Editor: Margaret