Word Finder - thing

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That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.

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A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.

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An individual object or distinct entity.

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A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).

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Bacon pie? Is that a thing?

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Whatever can be owned.

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Corporeal object.

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(somewhat obsolete, with the) The latest fad or fashion.

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(in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.

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Hold on, let me just grab my things.

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A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.

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get me a thing of apple juice at the store;  I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans

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A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.

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The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety.

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A penis.

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A living being or creature.

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you poor thing;  she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place;  I met a pretty blond thing at the bar

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That which matters; the crux.

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that's the thing: we don't know where he went;  the thing is, I don't have any money

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Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.

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Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing.

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That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)

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A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.

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A romantic relationship.

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To express as a thing; to reify.

How could he do such a thing to his own children?

It was a strange thing for a man to say.

It was a foolish thing to say.

It was the last thing he would want.

It was a good thing he found it so amusing.

Sleep meant one thing – nightmares.

One thing was sure.

I don't know a thing about mechanics.

But he can't wiz a single thing if he hasn't the tools and machinery to work with.

That's the greatest thing I have seen to-day.

What a good thing it would be!

It was the most comical shapeless thing, this improvised doll, with no nose, mouth, ears or eyes--nothing that even the imagination of a child could convert into a face.

It was no easy thing to learn these letters and how they are put together to make words.

If the Cossacks did not capture Napoleon then, what saved him was the very thing that was destroying the French army, the booty on which the Cossacks fell.

The first thing the little humbug did was to produce a tiny white piglet from underneath his hat and pretend to pull it apart, making two.

And one ran quickly and told the good abbess, or mistress of the abbey, what strange thing had happened.

That is the one thing I have faith in!

Katie was right about one thing.

The hardest thing (Pierre went on thinking, or hearing, in his dream) is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all.

The farther I go back in memory, or what is the same thing the farther I go forward in my judgment, the more doubtful becomes my belief in the freedom of my action.

If it was a tornado, standing next to glass doors wasn't the smartest thing to do.

How is that the right thing?

Obviously, knowing the wise course is one thing, and following it is another.

The principal thing that is lacking is sentence accent and variety in the inflection of phrases.

That is the only thing that makes me unhappy.

One thing was certain--that he was suffering and wished to say something.

Oh, what a terrible thing is fear, and how shamefully I yielded to it!

Natasha would have had no doubt as to the greatness of Pierre's idea, but one thing disconcerted her.

Beef is not the only thing on the menu for you to enjoy.

It was simply that he didn't want to tell her - which amounted to the same thing.

Right now she wished she hadn't started this romancing thing.

Sarah was right about one thing.

I think the best thing to do is try to remember all the good times you had.

The only thing she needed was an opportunity.

Somehow it seemed such a small thing now.

One thing she had plenty of was hair.

The only thing we don't know is the wedding date.

Apparently it was the only thing that frightened him.

The first thing she needed to do was the dishes.

That's a fine thing to be telling me while you're working on my truck.

It was best to stay out of the entire thing - if they would only let her.

Is it a female thing?

Make sure you don't get any sparks on that thing.

Cade only wanted one thing - and she had foolishly submitted.

It wasn't the worst thing that could happen.

The last thing she wanted was a reluctant husband.

The best thing to do was to calmly tell him she would rather not go.

The safest thing for both of them was for him to keep his distance and remain objective.

It was a nice thing to know.

First and last thing I see every day.