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anything

[en-ee-thing]

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pronoun

any thing whatever; something, no matter what: Do you have anything for a toothache?

noun

a thing of any kind.

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Anything is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

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.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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adverb

in any degree; to any extent; in any way; at all: Does it taste anything like chocolate?

Idioms

anything but, in no degree or respect; not in the least: The plans were anything but definite.

anything goes, any type of conduct, dress, speech, etc., is considered acceptable or valid or is likely to be encountered and tolerated: That resort is a place where anything goes!

Origin:
before 900; Middle English ani thing, eni thing, Old English ǣnig thing. See any, thing¹

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Example Sentences

Hiring from countries where faculty more likely to be obsequious and acquiesce to anything no matter how unethical.

People must rememeber that major media can make anything look the way they.

As a caver you never come across anything this vast.

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Hiring from countries where faculty more likely to be obsequious and acquiesce to anything no matter how unethical.

People must rememeber that major media can make anything look the way they.

As a caver you never come across anything this vast.

Particularly when that person was never immunized at all for anything.

When scientists go scavenging at a bioblitz, anything they can find that's organic is considered fair game.

Still the focal point of many interior living spaces, the latest fireplaces look anything but traditional.

Show anything to its all-seeing camera eye, and it will quickly learn to recognize it.

There is great hiking, mountain biking, and anything else you can do in a forest or on a mountain.

Yet when it comes to neuroscience, no government or treaty stops anything.

The animal is certainly weird, scientists say, but he's not necessarily a symbol of global warming or anything else.

Liquid-nitrogen jet slices and scours almost anything.

But because an animal wags its tail and eats, nobody thinks there's anything wrong-not even to get into these big exotic animals.

It's a kind of magic trick that makes anything look better.

Show anything to its all-seeing camera eye, and it will quickly learn to recognize it and then.

In any case, no one here has told me anything about that job.

It is too early to say whether geo-engineering or anything else will be part of this mix.

What a scared orphan elephant needs more than anything is other elephants.

Patients and families were desperate to try anything that might offer a longer term solution.

Perhaps more than anything else, it is the extraordinary architecture that takes a visitor's breath away.

In a good hotel bar, anything can happen, and probably already has.

Because it's probably going to be a while before you see anything at all.

Not that anyone on this thread has suggested anything so extreme, of course.

Nobody has yet given them, or anybody else, anything to investigate.

If you see anything concerning, please contact us.

Anything that can cut such resistance should lengthen the life of machines and save energy.

We asked her if anything interesting got left out of her previous reports.

The thought of making anything as fragile-looking as a tall.

They typically have the capability of controlling anything.

Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics dr_coffee.

Brazil's woeful schools, more than perhaps anything else, are what hold it back.

Explain to students that a geographic perspective is a way to understand anything distributed across space.

SoIf you don't know how to do anything, you can't fix anything when it fails to work or becomes too pricey.

And the stories she shared in a diary showed she routinely put herself in situations the rest of us would do anything to avoid.

Very prone to root rot if drainage is anything less than excellent.

All good parents are convinced that they would do anything to keep their kids safe, and would never do anything to hurt them.

They are going to try to walk up to their house to see if anything is left.

Anything that advances the interest of a company, the.

The ways in which they provide for each other can include anything from sharing food to caring for the young.

If you ever find a cure or anything that helps please let me know.

But anything that gets people excited about science and learning is probably a good thing.

Anything that will hold a few scoops of dirt is fair game.

Still, physically connecting anything to a computer presents some risk.

Under copyright law, anything you write is immediately copyrighted to you.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Then, guided by metal detectors-coins often give away the location of other goods-they sink shafts to extract anything of value.

At first glance you might not notice anything odd on meeting a young boy with autism.

And they have to pierce their owner's skin before they can pierce anything else.

If you've never grown anything from seed before, arugula is a great first crop.

We don't pretend to understand math, and anything beyond long division leaves us pretty much stumped.

There would be no page charges or anything of that nature so it's not some money-making scam.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Wildfires can destroy anything and everything in their path.

Astronauts have to be prepared for almost everything in space, but also anything on the ground.

So many of the prehistoric creatures were so unlike anything alive today.

Before the remodel, the site was too steep for play and too shady for anything but ivy.

Wrist-mounted control panels are a sci-fi staple, used to remote control anything from spacecraft to cars to time machines.

They would know if there's anything done nationally.

Indeed, he never spoke publicly of anything that touched on the personal.

They didn't follow me to keep me company or anything.

If you want to learn how to do anything right the best way is from some one who is sucessful.

The judges then can see if anything has been altered.

Like a canvas waiting for paint, an empty garden planter can become anything you desire: a meditation in violet, a carnival.

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology.

First check your old contract and check whether it says anything specific about overpayment.

But precisely what animals sense, if they feel anything at all, is a mystery.

It encourages more and more persecution until nobody dares to say anything about race at all.

If you think the brain is a machine, there's no reason a machine can't be made to do anything the brain can".

Its bright flavors make it the perfect side dish for anything grilled.

Review your lists frequently to ensure you're not missing anything.

Ethical search committees will probably let you know soon how you stand, but it's simply too early to tell anything.

While you are climbing up, you can't see anything except the hill above you.

No scientist has ever observed anything in the universe that is self-creating and self-existing.

The example people in this article didn't do anything to that female to show that they were offending her.

I've never seen our chickens turn their beaks up at anything before.

Bad letters of recommendation are anything other than glowing letters.

Specializing in large farm animals, this senior is anything but retiring as he takes an old.

They lie and manipulate yet feel no compunction or regrets-in fact, they don't feel particularly deeply about anything at all.

Throws paint on a canvas and doesn't afraid of anything.

The overhaul resulted in a spacious family-friendly ground floor, complete with a large entry that's anything but formal.

Finally, my lunch was finished, and the jay realized that he wasn't going to get anything.

Even though none of them reported actually hearing anything.

It is hard to capture anything when moving so rapidly espcially when things happen only a split second and cannot be repeated.

Don't plant anything that will need to be pruned regularly.

If you know anything about motors, that's not supposed to happen.

And when you grow what you eat, you can get incomparably sweet, vine-ripened produce that beats anything you can buy.

It boggles my mind that anyone takes them as anything more.

Sprinkle your sandwiches and salads with anything from pea shoots to micro greens, onion sprouts to sun-flower.

Remember that irradiation never makes anything radioactiveunless the food is wound thru a neutron flux.

What caught my eye more than anything else was these crazy mushrooms sprouting out of the straw bale garden.

Interestingly, these studies weren't asking anything about bias but about the quality of the reviewers comments.

As with anything there is a great deal of chemistry involved in the breakdown of hops in the brewing process.

She survived, but she cannot remember anything about the incident.

Do not touch the bait with your hands or anything you have been handling.

Anything a chicken-owner can do to keep a coop clean is a good thing.

He can't remember who he is, where he is, or anything about his life.

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World English Dictionary

anything (ˈɛnɪˌθɪŋ)

—*pron*
1.	any object, event, action, etc, whatever: anything might happen

—n
2.	a thing of any kind: have you anything to declare?

—*adv*
3.	in any way: he wasn't anything like his father
4.	anything but by no means; not in the least: she was anything but happy
5.	like anything (intensifier; usually euphemistic): he ran like anything

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

anything

late O.E., from any + thing. But O.E. ænig þinga apparently meant "somehow, anyhow" (glossing L. quoquo modo). Anythingarian (c.1704, originally dismissive) was a word for "one indifferent to religious creeds" (on model of trinitarian, unitarian, etc.).

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

anything

In addition to the idioms beginning with anything, also see can't do anything with; if anything; like anything; not anything like.