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Definition: thing
thing
n 1: a special situation;
“this thing has got to end”;
“it is a
remarkable thing”
2: an action;
“how could you do such a thing?”
3: an artifact;
“how does this thing work?”
4: an event;
“a funny thing happened on the way to the...”
5: a statement regarded as an object;
“to say the same thing in
other terms”;
“how can you say such a thing?”
6: any attribute or quality considered as having its own
existence;
“the thing I like about her is ...”
7: a special abstraction;
“a thing of the spirit”;
“things of
the heart”
8: a vaguely specified concern;
“several matters to attend to”;
“it is none of your affair”;
“things are going well” [syn:
matter,
affair]
9: an entity that is not named specifically;
“I couldn't tell
what the thing was”
10: a special objective;
“the thing is to stay in bounds”
11: a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion;
“he
has a thing about seafood”;
“she has a thing about him”
12: a separate and self-contained entity
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Thing
Thing
\Thing\ (th[i^]ng), n. [AS. [thorn]ing a thing, cause,
assembly, judicial assembly; akin to [thorn]ingan to
negotiate, [thorn]ingian to reconcile, conciliate, D. ding a
thing, OS. thing thing, assembly, judicial assembly, G. ding
a thing, formerly also, an assembly, court, Icel. [thorn]ing
a thing, assembly, court, Sw. & Dan. ting; perhaps originally
used of the transaction of or before a popular assembly, or
the time appointed for such an assembly; cf. G. dingen to
bargain, hire, MHG. dingen to hold court, speak before a
court, negotiate, Goth. [thorn]eihs time, perhaps akin to L.
tempus time. Cf.
Hustings, and
Temporal of time.]
1. Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate
entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or
distinguishable object of thought.
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God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind. --Gen. i. 25.
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He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the
good things of Egypt. --Gen. xiv.
23.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. --Keats.
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2. An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being;
any lifeless material.
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Ye meads and groves, unconscious things! --Cowper.
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3. A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed.
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[And Jacob said] All these things are against me.
--Gen. xlii.
36.
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Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by
what authority I do these things. --Matt. xxi.
24.
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4. A portion or part; something.
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Wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom.
--Tillotson.
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5. A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as
merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.
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See, sons, what things you are! --Shak.
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The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me.
--Addison.
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I'll be this abject thing no more. --Granville.
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I have a thing in prose. --Swift.
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6. pl. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to
pack or store one's things. [Colloq.]
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Note: Formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural
or collective sense.
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And them she gave her moebles and her thing.
--Chaucer.
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Note: Thing was used in a very general sense in Old English,
and is still heard colloquially where some more
definite term would be used in careful composition.
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In the garden [he] walketh to and fro,
And hath his things [i. e., prayers, devotions]
said full courteously. --Chaucer.
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Hearkening his minstrels their things play.
--Chaucer.
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7. (Law) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; --
distinguished from person.
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8. [In this sense pronounced t[i^]ng.] In Scandinavian
countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.
--Longfellow.
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Things personal. (Law) Same as
Personal property, under
Personal.
Things real. Same as
Real property, under
Real.
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Thing
\Thing\, Ting
\Ting\, n. [Dan. thing, ting, Norw. ting, or
Sw. ting.]
In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial
assembly; -- used, esp. in composition, in titles of such
bodies. See
Legislature, Norway.
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