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English Dictionary: thing by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thing
n
  1. a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing"
  2. an action; "how could you do such a thing?"
  3. a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart"
  4. an artifact; "how does this thing work?"
  5. an event; "a funny thing happened on the way to the..."
  6. a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
    Synonym(s): matter, affair, thing
  7. a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?"
  8. an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was"
  9. any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence; "the thing I like about her is ..."
  10. a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds"
  11. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him"
  12. a separate and self-contained entity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thing \Thing\, d8Ting \[d8]Ting\, n. [Dan. thing, ting, Norw.
      ting, or Sw. ting.]
      In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial
      assembly; -- used, esp. in composition, in titles of such
      bodies. See {Legislature}, Norway.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thing \Thing\ (th[icr]ng), n. [AS. [thorn]ing a thing, cause,
      assembly, judicial assembly; akin to [thorn]ingan to
      negotiate, [thorn]ingian to reconcile, conciliate, D. ding a
      thing, OS. thing thing, assembly, judicial assembly, G. ding
      a thing, formerly also, an assembly, court, Icel. [thorn]ing
      a thing, assembly, court, Sw. & Dan. ting; perhaps originally
      used of the transaction of or before a popular assembly, or
      the time appointed for such an assembly; cf. G. dingen to
      bargain, hire, MHG. dingen to hold court, speak before a
      court, negotiate, Goth. [thorn]eihs time, perhaps akin to L.
      tempus time. Cf. {Hustings}, and {Temporal} of time.]
      1. Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate
            entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or
            distinguishable object of thought.
  
                     God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the
                     earth after his kind.                        --Gen. i. 25.
  
                     He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the
                     good things of Egypt.                        --Gen. xiv.
                                                                              23.
  
                     A thing of beauty is a joy forever.   --Keats.
  
      2. An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being;
            any lifeless material.
  
                     Ye meads and groves, unconscious things! --Cowper.
  
      3. A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed.
  
                     [And Jacob said] All these things are against me.
                                                                              --Gen. xlii.
                                                                              36.
  
                     Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by
                     what authority I do these things.      --Matt. xxi.
                                                                              24.
  
      4. A portion or part; something.
  
                     Wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom.
                                                                              --Tillotson.
  
      5. A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as
            merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.
  
                     See, sons, what things you are!         --Shak.
  
                     The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
                     I'll be this abject thing no more.      --Granville.
  
                     I have a thing in prose.                     --Swift.
  
      6. pl. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to
            pack or store one's things. [Colloq.]
  
      Note: Formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural
               or collective sense.
  
                        And them she gave her moebles and her thing.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
      Note: Thing was used in a very general sense in Old English,
               and is still heard colloquially where some more
               definite term would be used in careful composition.
  
                        In the garden [he] walketh to and fro, And hath
                        his things [i. e., prayers, devotions] said full
                        courteously.                                 --Chaucer.
  
                        Hearkening his minstrels their things play.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
      7. (Law) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; --
            distinguished from person.
  
      8. [In this sense pronounced t[icr]ng.] In Scandinavian
            countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.
            --Longfellow.
  
      {Things personal}. (Law) Same as {Personal property}, under
            {Personal}.
  
      {Things real}. Same as {Real property}, under {Real}.
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