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Thing   /θɪŋ/   Listen
Thing

noun
1.
A special situation.  "It is a remarkable thing"
2.
An action.
3.
A special abstraction.  "Things of the heart"
4.
An artifact.
5.
An event.
6.
A vaguely specified concern.  Synonyms: affair, matter.  "It is none of your affair" , "Things are going well"
7.
A statement regarded as an object.  "How can you say such a thing?"
8.
An entity that is not named specifically.
9.
Any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence.
10.
A special objective.
11.
A persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion.  "She has a thing about him"
12.
A separate and self-contained entity.



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"Thing" Quotes from Famous Books



... grave this afternoon," said Fosbrook, with his eyes upon Mr. Mardale. It might have been a mere accident, it was in any case a trifling thing, the mere shaking of a hand, the spilling of a spoonful of salt upon the table, but trifling things have their suggestions. He remembered that Resilda, when she had waked up on the night of December the 11th to find ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason
... Sabina; worship and cherish her; fill her life with happiness; pander to her every whim; devote a large portion of his own time to her; do all that wit and love could devise for her pleasure—all but one thing. ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... Nikky, after a pause. He was not very quick in thinking things out. He placed, as a fact, more reliance on his right arm than on his brain. But once he had thought a thing out, it stuck. "Look here, Highness, you didn't treat your ...
— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... the images would really present themselves to the speaker's mind? It would be enough for him that the bird was bonnie, and singing; and his very sorrow would lead him to analyse and describe as little as possible a thing which so painfully contrasted with his own feelings; whether the thorn was flowery or not, would not have mattered to him, unless he had some distinct association with the thorn-flowers, in which case he would have brought out the image full and separate, and not merely thrown it in as ...
— Literary and General Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... he might come and continue our 'stimulating' conversation, and as Lady Baird was standing by I could hardly say no. I am sure of one thing: that before I finish with him I will widen his horizon so that he will be able to see something beside Scotland and his little insignificant Fifeshire parish! I told him our country parishes in America were ten times as large as ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin


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