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noun

a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.

some entity, object, or creature that is not or cannot be specifically designated or precisely described: The stick had a brass thing on it.

anything that is or may become an object of thought: things of the spirit.

things, matters; affairs: Things are going well now.

a fact, circumstance, or state of affairs: It is a curious thing.

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an action, deed, event, or performance: to do great things; His death was a horrible thing.

a particular, respect, or detail: perfect in all things.

aim; objective: The thing is to reach this line with the ball.

an article of clothing: I don't have a thing to wear.

10.

things,

implements, utensils, or other articles for service: I'll wash the breakfast things.

personal possessions or belongings: Pack your things and go!

11.

a task; chore: I've got a lot of things to do today.

12.

a living being or creature: His baby's a cute little thing.

13.

a thought or statement: I have just one thing to say to you.

14.

Informal. a peculiar attitude or feeling, either positive or negative, toward something; mental quirk: She has a thing about cats.

15.

something signified or represented, as distinguished from a word, symbol, or idea representing it.

16.

Law. anything that may be the subject of a property right.

17.

new thing, Jazz. free jazz.

18.

the thing,

something that is correct or fashionable: That café is the thing now.

that which is expedient or necessary: The thing to do is to tell them the truth.

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Idioms

19.

do/find one's own thing, Informal. to pursue a lifestyle that expresses one's self. Also, do/find one's thing.

20.

make a good thing of, Informal. to turn (a situation, experience, etc.) to one's own profit; benefit by: She made a good thing of her spare-time hobbies.

21.

not to get a thing out of,

to be unable to obtain information or news from: The police couldn't get a thing out of him.

to fail to appreciate, understand, or derive aesthetic pleasure from: My wife likes opera, but I don't get a thing out of it.

22.

see/hear things, Informal. to have hallucinations.

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Things is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English: orig., meeting; see thing²

Example Sentences

But occasionally brave philosophers do leap out of their professional lanes and illuminate things for the wider public.

It is a plurality of different things that do not share any one element but nevertheless bear a resemblance to one another.

If you need to incentivise staff to hand things in then let them nominate a charity to which unclaimed goods are donated.

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But occasionally brave philosophers do leap out of their professional lanes and illuminate things for the wider public.

It is a plurality of different things that do not share any one element but nevertheless bear a resemblance to one another.

If you need to incentivise staff to hand things in then let them nominate a charity to which unclaimed goods are donated.

Millions of people doing even the little things makes a difference.

Herschel's daring test: a glimpse of things to come.

Amino acids come in multiple forms, but only some are used by living things to form proteins.

Instead, he looks in the other direction, as if he's got better things to do.

There are still a few things film cameras do that digital cameras don't.

In the real world, those two things are often at odds.

But things are now changing, slightly but noticeably.

Doing the right things in the right order is crucial.

Ask students to describe some of the things they think they would see in the ocean.

With the dog days of summer upon us, things are heating up, especially cars and buildings with windows to soak up the sun's rays.

Counting butterflies is one of those things that sound easy but isn't.

Not the heavy duty medical stuff, but things to treat the minor hiccups that can derail a day of walking and over-indulging.

All of your letters will have some things in common since they are all about you.

Increasing spending for the military does a couple of things.

Below are some things the local people might say about their experiences since the sea began to shrink.

Inanimate things becoming alive that has not been observed ever and is also rejected.

So while there's many buildings out there, there's many things you could do, that doesn't mean you should do them.

Sometimes he takes things apart and can't put them back together.

For now, the researchers are in the process of turning things over to the engineers.

The parents of these kids are too busy with work and other things.

The upshot of all this is that gravity, in addition to pulling things in, stretches and compresses them too.

Well, he took streetcars to work and raised chickens out in the backyard as a hobby, a remembrance of glorious things past.

People give you useful things and you're expected to respond in kind.

These, among many other things motivated by ignorant supernatural beliefs.

It's quite flexible, but the way new things are done is methodical.

There are some things that are always certain in this life.

Losing one's sense of smell may not mean forgetting what things smell like.

Not everyone who does things criminal is going to be diagnosed as a psychopath.

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Things were going well here and my tenure case was.

Old drugs are falling from favour, new ones are growing, and the economic slump may shake things up again.

Our brains have evolved to quickly detect things that are important to human survival.

Alcoholic beverages aren't the only things that taste best at particular temperatures.

Things to do: canoe into town, hike down the river, visit vineyards.

One of the great things about the iPhone is the regular software updates.

The first is when you start saying things you swore you would never say, things.

Now he is stirring things up again as a venture capitalist.

Many of the things geographers study are found in some places, but not in the others.

Why thinking about distant things can make us more creative.

But also, a reef is always being destructed by things that eat and chew on the rock, or turn the rock into sand.

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Just go for it and fill things in to the extent that you can with whatever comes to mind.

Our weekly round-up of things to watch out for in the next seven days.

Show students miniature items representing things from their.

They move too slowly, forget things and are inflexible.

Boating and sailing and fishing, there are lots of fun things for families including hockey and many others for the school.

From downtown finds to weekend escapes, here are some favorite things to do around town.

Then it pushes you right back in to all of those things again.

All these things require higher returns to farmers, which will attract higher investment.

Vacation can mean different things to different people.

Strange things happen to electrons when they are confined to a thin layer of semiconductor, cooled to near absolute zero.

Fog hides the stands of loblolly pines-practically the only green things growing at this.

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So, now that all of the preliminary procedural things have been completed the trial can begin.

Non-profits do plenty of other things to motivate their workers that for-profits could imitate.

Read on, for the surprising origins of many strange and familiar things.

We know such things because sediments reveal history.

When things heat up outside, cool things off in the kitchen with a chilled, low-fat soup full of fresh summer ingredients.

She eventually agreed in writing to leave the student alone, and things did settle down.

For now, the closest things available are high-critical.

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But many things she said finally registered, and several incidents from the past.

In doing so, it has deliberately blurred the lines between making things and offering services.

Like so many things on this campus, it is slowly deteriorating, and there is no money coming from the state to fix it.

They work hard to afford things they think will make them happy, only to discover the fruits of their labour sour quickly.

It applies to things of all sizes: birds, plants, maybe even people.

Some of these things were major things, and others were probably less significant in terms of.

In humans things not are always as brutal and explicit.

Thus, the different regions appear to work together to identify different things.

Just keep this letter focused on the task at hand, then get on to doing all the other things you need to do.

In fact, he thinks, having a crowd around often makes things better.

So, here are a few things that are on my end of the semester checklist.

There are a lot of good things you can say about international trade.

From the tiniest shrimp to the biggest whale, all living things play roles in a food chain.

Although a photograph always shows the same things, that doesn't mean those things are always seen the same.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

(in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.

Also, ting.

Compare thingstead.

Origin:
1830–40; < Old Norse: assembly; cognate with thing¹, Dutch ding, German Ding thing, orig., meeting; akin to Gothic theihs time

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Word Origin & History

thing

O.E. þing "meeting, assembly," later "entity, being, matter" (subject of deliberation in an assembly), also "act, deed, event, material object, body, being," from P.Gmc. *thengan "appointed time" (cf. O.Fris. thing "assembly, council, suit, matter, thing," M.Du. dinc "court-day, suit, plea, concern,

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affair, thing," Du. ding "thing," O.H.G. ding "public assembly for judgment and business, lawsuit," Ger. ding "affair, matter, thing," O.N. þing "public assembly"). Some suggest an ultimate connection to PIE root *ten- "stretch," perhaps on notion of "stretch of time for a meeting or assembly." For sense evolution, cf. Fr. chose, Sp. cosa "thing," from L. causa "judicial process, lawsuit, case;" L. res "affair, thing," also "case at law, cause." Old sense is preserved in second element of hustings and in Icelandic Althing, the nation's general assembly. Southern U.S. pronunciation thang attested from 1937. The thing "what's stylish or fashionable" is recorded from 1762. Phrase do your thing "follow your particular predilection," though associated with hippie-speak of 1960s is attested from 1841. Used colloquially since 1602 to indicate things the speaker can't name at the moment, often with various meaningless suffixes, e.g. thingumbob (1751), thingamajig (1824).

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Slang Dictionary

thing definition

n.
one's interest; one's bag. : This isn't exactly my thing, but I'll give it a try.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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