SkyfireDict

thing   (TTS Sound)

The noun thing has 12 senses

• thing -- (a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing")


• thing -- (an action; "how could you do such a thing?")


• thing -- (a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart")


• thing -- (an artifact; "how does this thing work?")


• thing -- (an event; "a funny thing happened on the way to the...")


• matter, affair, thing -- (a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well")


• thing -- (a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?")


• thing -- (an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was")


• thing -- (any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence; "the thing I like about her is ...")


• thing -- (a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds")


• thing -- (a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him")


• thing -- (a separate and self-contained entity)