Thing: Definition and part of speech

Thing

  1. n. In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.
  2. n. Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.
  3. n. An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material.
  4. n. A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed.
  5. n. A portion or part; something.
  6. n. A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; — often used in pity or contempt.
  7. n. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one’s things.
  8. n. Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; — distinguished from person.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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