thing /θɪŋ/
1. a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing"
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2. an action; "how could you do such a thing?"
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3. a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart"
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4. an artifact; "how does this thing work?"
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5. an event; "a funny thing happened on the way to the..."
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6. a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
7. a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?"
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8. an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was"
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9. any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence; "the thing I like about her is ..."
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10. a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds"
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11. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him"
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12. a separate and self-contained entity
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Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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