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thing

noun
  1. a separate and self-contained entity
  2. an action
    “how could you do such a thing?”
  3. an artifact
    “how does this thing work?”
  4. an entity that is not named specifically
    “I couldn't tell what the thing was”
  5. any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
    “The thing I liked most about the novel was how it made such big ideas accessible to a wider audience.”
  6. a vaguely specified concern
    matteraffair
  7. a special abstraction
    “a thing of the spirit”
  8. a special objective
    “the thing is to stay in bounds”
  9. a statement regarded as an object
    “to say the same thing in other terms”
  10. an event
    “a funny thing happened on the way to the...”
  11. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
    “I have a thing about seafood.”
  12. a special situation
    “this thing has got to end”