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(noun) an action; "how could you do such a thing?" |
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Related Words: action |
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(noun) an artifact; "how does this thing work?" |
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Related Words: artefact, artifact, flagship, pill, snorter, standby, variation, wobbler |
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(noun) an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was" |
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Related Words: change, crackerjack, entity, horror, jimdandy, jimhickey, security blanket, something, whacker, whopper |
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(noun) any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence: "the thing I like about her is ..." |
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Related Words: attribute |
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(noun) a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart" |
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Related Words: abstract, abstraction |
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(noun) a special objective: "the thing is to stay in bounds" |
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Related Words: aim, object, objective, target |
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(noun) a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other terms" or "how can you say such a thing?" |
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Related Words: statement |
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(noun) an event: "a funny thing happened on the way to the..." |
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Related Words: feast, happening, natural event, occurrence |
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(noun) a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion: "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him" |
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Related Words: feeling |
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(noun) a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing" |
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Related Words: situation, state of affairs |
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(noun) a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well" |
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Synonyms: affair, matter |
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Related Words: concern |
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