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Something

[suhm-thing]

pronoun

some thing; a certain undetermined or unspecified thing: Something is wrong there. Something's happening.

an additional amount, as of cents or minutes, that is unknown, unspecified, or forgotten: He charged me ten something for the hat. Our train gets in at two something.

noun

Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.

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Something is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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adverb

in some degree; to some extent; somewhat.

Informal. to a high or extreme degree; quite: He took on something fierce about my tardiness.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English, Old English sum thing. See some, thing¹

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Example Sentences

Many times, when something sounds too good to be true, it's because it is.

It's easier to get something done when the audience waiting for it.

No one wants to get egg on his face by having missed something obvious.

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Many times, when something sounds too good to be true, it's because it is.

It's easier to get something done when the audience waiting for it.

No one wants to get egg on his face by having missed something obvious.

The universe is racing toward something beyond it, a new study suggests.

Then researchers spot something abnormal in your head.

In order to do that, they have to be able to live off the land and do something worthwhile.

Something is always at its best in these demonstration gardens.

When the rich do something to deserve their riches, nobody complains.

Protesters around the world demand that something must be done.

They all have one thing in common: they have experienced something extraordinary.

The way to tell a true unit from a degree of something is to look at the zero point.

Fig trees only bear fruit thanks to something called a fig wasp.

That's probably something else she learned from her great-grandmother.

Finally, something to wear to the gym that isn't spandex or sweatpants.

At last, the government and opposition agree about something.

They could teach us something about cooperative living.

Another set of experiments showed the robot could learn to tell whether or not something was a container.

The larvae, in turn, may drift hundreds of miles before attaching to something solid.

There's something irresistibly romantic about sleeping outside.

When he wakes up, he's something new-and vastly ahead of the curve.

Something between a fudge and a failure would be more accurate.

When something new is posted to this blog, you will be notified.

If you come upon something once, it will likely be forgotten.

But there was something else, something visible from a long way off, that identified him.

If you're going to splurge, consider something custom-designed, such as this light fixture.

Something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers.

Therefore, in these cases, something must actively be producing methane for it to be measurable.

If you look around some ponds and creeks, you might find that something is missing-frogs.

The birth of something less beastly could not be ruled out.

One of them explains the why of why something was created or occurred.

It seems that something so beautiful shouldn't be this easy to reach.

Basically, a flat surface to cover your knuckles or something.

Without a trace, something is causing bees to vanish by the thousands.

The truth is that something is in the pipelines internationally and something big at that.

So using that kind of equipment and being around that much raw power is something different.

We need something that's ridiculously easy to put together.

Centripetal force is the force needed to make something move in a circle.

To succeed, you must override both a normal impulse to attend to new information and curiosity about something forbidden.

If you define something carefully enough, you can prove anything.

It is hard not to see recent events as portending something deeply ominous for paleontology.

Now is the time for you to try something similar: bulbs are still in stores, but not for much longer.

Something should really be said about the lack of health insurance or a living wage for graduate students.

It is not something that can be immediately understood for what it represents.

There's something about mangoes that inspires obsession.

That's something that makes me inferior when it comes to choosing partners.

If something is technologically possible, then it is technologically possible at low cost.

I've never been good at waiting around for something to do.

Remembering a fiction is much more demanding than remembering something that actually occurred.

Any person able read the hoarding thread without cleaning or organizing something soon after is unfathomable to me.

Read about a science project that turned into something big.

Before you say something is out of this world, first make sure that it is not in this world.

Why not steal ideas from something that's been millions of years in the.

If you're going to splurge, consider something custom-designed, such as a light fixture.

We'll either see neutrinos, or something will be strange with the universe.

When you beat that into normal order, you see that an occurrence of something is among the manifestations of something else.

Why the brain believes something is real when it is.

What keeps them coming back for more is the hope they're going to find something.

The pedestal had writing stamped into it with directions on how to make something.

When people have the urge to act on something that irritates them about the world, they can actually do something.

Whenever you have something published, you should gain something.

It only took the bright green to transform this old terracota house into something stricking to look.

Then something happened to start filling the space with matter and energy.

So the couple knew they could do something interesting with the modest property.

He had hit on something with this combination-the enthusiasm on family game night was palpable.

Especially if you're talking about something that is for academic purposes.

She told me something that has stayed with me: the family had saved for three years to make the trip.

Young entrepreneurs here are not hesitant to try something new.

Don't worry, at the end you'll get something good out.

Most schools remain closed, but even so something close to normalcy is beginning to return.

Follow-up observations on large telescopes confirm that something hit the gas giant.

There was something so special about her being there.

My wife showed me a picture of a storage unit and asked me to make something similar.

Gaze at something long enough and deeply enough and you are almost certain to find things you didn't expect.

Instead this is a narrow posting on something that.

Distribution refers to the way something is spread out or arranged over a geographic area.

Jonathan had become something of a father figure to the younger man.

Maybe you think you prefer something a bit more secluded.

The public's ability to strike back is something that every government should be reminded of from time to time”.

When there is something on a student's mind, usually it's minor.

If one person, firm or country can produce more of something with the same amount of effort and resources.

These three adventures have something to captivate even the wildest imaginations.

In fact, a few years ago the studio had something that may have departed a little too far from the previous films.

Impressive, sometimes colorful, flower stalk emerges from the rosette's center looking something like.

For years, software was something you bought and installed on your hard drive.

Networking once meant something specific: climbing the jungle gym of professional contacts in order to advance your career.

There's something bizarre, something psychological, going on with that contrast between personal niceness and political hatred.

And they were still under something of a threat, of an invasion.

Let's get something straight, the scientists conducting this research are not doing it to insult you.

Foucan's performance is clearly something real, raw and primal.

Ignoble, utilitarian outbuildings hidden in backyard corners have given way to something so much better-and much more fun.

Something that looks good, feels good, is infinitely reusable.

Most big non-profits use it or something similar for managing donors.

We have to carve something out for ourselves, something that the machines won't immediately grab.

It's a place so untamed that if something doesn't bite, stick, or.

They took something called rice husk ash: the leftover husks from processing rice are burned for energy, and the ash remains.

When he saw or heard something that pleased him, his face would light up with an impish smile.

Stopherd wanted to give them something they'd actually use.

Direction isn't something humans can detect innately.

Always spin your weakness into something positive if they ask that dreaded question about your weakness.

The reason for their interest was that these coats are something of a mixed blessing.

She looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in his gorged body.

Most humans think of the placenta as something that gets tossed out after childbirth.

Once upon a time a man did something that made many parents happy.

Seeing the phrase boldly trumpeted across a home's entry, however, is something else.

All they care about is getting a piece of paper that says they accomplished something whether they actually worked for it or not.

Indeed, the historical record provides a hint that something was afoot around this time.

Notice how something with unique characteristics can be grouped into its own category.

Of late, the solar system's smallest planet is experiencing something of an.

Aim to have something in bloom from early spring to late fall so that winged visitors are never without nourishment.

No, you want something rugged, something extreme something that runs.

I'd do something you know well, and something that doesn't require them to prepare overmuch.

Kotler has always seen marketing as something that evolves over time, and his book has also moved with the times.

Just walking into it, you would think it was a credit card company or something.

For now, the data remain preliminary-subtle signs that something may be wrong with our standard understanding of the universe.

While you might be tempted to interpret these dreams yourself, this is something better left to professionals.

Or, the converse--if you've had something on this list mowed down in the blink of an eye--tell us about that, too.

There's something disorientating about seeing a prosthetic corpse being opened up.

Many felt that they had been denied something important and valuable, and they felt insulted by low expectations.

It seems hard to imagine that anyone of sound mind would take the blame for something he did not.

Also, try going through an entire day with a toddler without getting a good belly laugh about something he or she said.

No, because the malware might be a payload inserted by someone or something else.

If something happens to your e-reader, that's a huge chunk of change gone down the drain.

Chances of winning without making a purchase are the same as the chances of someone who buys something.

And you will be part of something new that is going to have a powerful positive impact on the world in many ways.

Ball to come up with something cheerful to smooth wrinkled brows and make the whole.

Whether it was climate or humidity or something else are questions that need to be looked at".

Instead something else must be driving the visual cortex's organization as well.

It is foolish for something so microscopic to go around posing as a state.

But there's something to be said for a stay on the city.

Always go with something about publications and research.

It looks possible, though, that something useful is indeed about to happen.

There's always something new and interesting to explore.

Find out what it is, and do something about the problem.

There was something strangely touching about her fingertips.

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World English Dictionary

something (ˈsʌmθɪŋ)

—*pron*
1.	an unspecified or unknown thing; some thing: he knows something you don't; take something warm with you
2.	an unspecified or unknown amount; bit: something less than a hundred
3.	an impressive or important person, thing, or event: isn't that something?
4.	something else a remarkable person or thing
5.	something or other one unspecified thing or an alternative thing

—*adv*
6.	to some degree; a little; somewhat: to look something like me
7.	informal (foll by an adjective) (intensifier): it hurts something awful

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Idioms & Phrases

something

In addition to the idioms beginning with something, also see buy something; get (have) something on someone; get something straight; have something against; hold something against; hold (something) over; look like something the cat dragged in; make something of; not put something past one; on the ball, have something; (something) or other; pull something on; start something; take something; you know something?