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English to English noun
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a special situation |  | Example: this thing has got to end
it is a remarkable thing
source: wordnet30
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an action | | Example: how could you do such a thing?
source: wordnet30
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a special abstraction | | Example: a thing of the spirit
things of the heart
source: wordnet30
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an artifact | | Example: how does this thing work?
source: wordnet30
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an event | | Example: a funny thing happened on the way to the...
source: wordnet30
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a vaguely specified concern | | Example: several matters to attend to
it is none of your affair
things are going well
source: wordnet30
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a statement regarded as an object | | Example: to say the same thing in other terms
how can you say such a thing?
source: wordnet30
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an entity that is not named specifically | | Example: I couldn't tell what the thing was
source: wordnet30
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any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence | | Example: the thing I like about her is ...
source: wordnet30
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a special objective | | Example: the thing is to stay in bounds
source: wordnet30
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a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion | | Example: he has a thing about seafood
she has a thing about him
source: wordnet30
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a separate and self-contained entity | | source: wordnet30
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Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. | | source: webster1913
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In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly; -- used, esp. in composition, in titles of such bodies. See Legislature, Norway. | | source: webster1913
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