English dictionary
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English noun: thing | |||
| 1. | thing (state) a special situation | ||
| Samples | This thing has got to end. It is a remarkable thing. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | situation, state of affairs | ||
| 2. | thing (act) an action | ||
| Samples | How could you do such a thing?. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | action | ||
| 3. | thing (cognition) a special abstraction | ||
| Samples | A thing of the spirit. Things of the heart. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | abstract, abstraction | ||
| 4. | thing (artifact) an artifact | ||
| Samples | How does this thing work?. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | artefact, artifact | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | flagship, pill, snorter, standby, variation, wobbler | ||
| 5. | thing (event) an event | ||
| Samples | A funny thing happened on the way to the.... | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | feast | ||
| 6. | thing (cognition) a vaguely specified concern | ||
| Samples | Several matters to attend to. It is none of your affair. Things are going well. | ||
| Synonyms | affair, matter | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | concern | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | least | ||
| 7. | thing (communication) a statement regarded as an object | ||
| Samples | To say the same thing in other terms. How can you say such a thing?. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | statement | ||
| 8. | thing (artifact) an entity that is not named specifically | ||
| Samples | I couldn't tell what the thing was. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | entity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | change, crackerjack, freshener, horror, jimdandy, jimhickey, pacifier, security blanket, stinker, whacker, whopper | ||
| 9. | thing (attribute) any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence | ||
| Samples | The thing I like about her is .... | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | attribute | ||
| 10. | thing (cognition) a special objective | ||
| Samples | The thing is to stay in bounds. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aim, object, objective, target | ||
| 11. | thing (feeling) a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion | ||
| Samples | He has a thing about seafood. She has a thing about him. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
| 12. | thing a separate and self-contained entity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | physical entity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | body of water, building block, content, depicted object, essential, inessential, necessary, necessity, nonessential, part, piece, requirement, requisite, reservoir, source, subject, unit, variable, water | ||
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