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thing

noun

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matter

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01noun

a special situation

“this thing has got to end”

“it is a remarkable thing”

02noun

an action

“how could you do such a thing?”

03noun

a special abstraction

“a thing of the spirit”

“things of the heart”

04noun

an artifact

“how does this thing work?”

8 more meanings

05noun

an event

“a funny thing happened on the way to the …”

06noun

a vaguely specified concern

“several matters to attend to”

“it is none of your affair”

07noun

a statement regarded as an object

“to say the same thing in other terms”

“how can you say such a thing?”

08noun

an entity that is not named specifically

“I couldn't tell what the thing was”

09noun

any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence

“the thing I like about her is …”

10noun

a special objective

“the thing is to stay in bounds”

11noun

a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion

“he has a thing about seafood”

“she has a thing about him”

12noun

a separate and self-contained entity

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