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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



... She told me the thing was well known, and with handsome young men alone it was even common; but this was the only case where five had been slain the same day and in a company by the love of the women-devils; and it had made a great stir in the island, and she would ...
— Island Nights' Entertainments • Robert Louis Stevenson
... seemed to come to him, and he sat down and began to laugh, looking at me from under his brows now and then, lest I should be wroth with him for the freedom. But I laughed also, and so in the end we two sat and laughed till the tears came, opposite one another, and that was a thing that I had never thought to do again. At last I stopped, and then he made haste to ...
— A Thane of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler
... left the room. I had no doubt that he would report enthusiastically on the new cash register. Mechanical experts do not, I suppose, write poetry, but there was without doubt a lyric in Mildmay's heart as he left the room. Tim packed the thing up again. Now that the mechanical part of the business was over, he relapsed into shy silence in a corner. His brother took out a cigarette and lit it I would not have ventured to light a cigarette in that ...
— Gossamer - 1915 • George A. Birmingham
... dead.[1293] Cities covered considerable space on the roomy intermontane plateaus; but in the narrow lateral valleys, houses and temples were built on rocks, in order to reserve every fertile spot for agriculture.[1294] The traveler notices the same thing throughout the Alps. Compact villages cling to the mountain sides, leaving the alluvial hem of the stream or level glacial terrace free for the much needed fields. Only in broad longitudinal valleys, like that of Andermatt, ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple
... says, but gives you the swing and the spirit of the distich. Rather hard on CURZON that my popularity should spoil his speech, but a good thing for ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892 • Various


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