Thing

noun

θɪŋ

Noun

a vaguely specified concern
“things are going well”
Similar:Affair Matter
Type of:Concern
a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
“he has a thing about seafood”
“she has a thing about him”
Type of:Feeling
a special abstraction
“a thing of the spirit”
“things of the heart”
Type of:AbstractAbstraction
a special situation
“this thing has got to end”
“it is a remarkable thing”
Type of:Situation
a statement regarded as an object
“to say the same thing in other terms”
“how can you say such a thing?”
Type of:Statement
an action
“how could you do such a thing?”
Type of:Action
an artifact
“how does this thing work?”
Type of:ArtifactArtefact
an entity that is not named specifically
“I couldn't tell what the thing was”
Type of:Entity
an event
“a funny thing happened on the way to the...”
Type of:OccurrenceOccurrentHappening
any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
“the thing I like about her is ...”
Type of:Attribute
a special objective
“the thing is to stay in bounds”
Type of:ObjectiveTargetObject
a separate and self-contained entity