some thing; a certain undetermined or unspecified thing: Something is wrong there. Something's happening.
2.
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
3.
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.
–adverb
4.
in some degree; to some extent; somewhat.
5.
Informal. to a high or extreme degree; quite: He took on something fierce about my tardiness.
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME, OE sum thing.See some, thing1]
An undetermined or unspecified thing: "We're all recalling something, furtively seeking something"(Virginia Woolf).
An unspecified or undetermined amount or extent: We know something about the early settlers in this area.
One having some or many of the same attributes, character, or essence as another: Trying to fix the computer myself was something of a mistake.
n.
A remarkable or important thing or person: He thinks he is something in that uniform.
One who falls into a specified age range. Often used in combination: fortysomethings who attended their class reunion.
adj.
Of, relating to, or being a member of a specified age range. Often used in combination: "the lives and loves of hip, twentysomething city dwellers"(Joseph P. Kahn).
adv.
A little; somewhat: She looks something like her mother.
Informal To an extreme degree: He drinks something fierce.
Noth"ing\, n. [From no, a. + thing.]1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden. 2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. --Shak. 3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought. --Is. xli. 24. 'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end. --Dryden. 4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught. Nothing but, only; no more than. --Chaucer. To make nothing of. (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts." --Ray. (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said.
Some"thing\, n. 1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. --Shak. The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about. --Pope. Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose. --Longfellow. 2. A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little. Something yet of doubt remains. --Milton. Something of it arises from our infant state. --I. Watts. 3. A person or thing importance. If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. --Gal. vi. 3.
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