Definition of Thing

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

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Noun
1. a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing"
(hypernym) situation, state of affairs
2. an action; "how could you do such a thing?"
(hypernym) action
3. an artifact; "how does this thing work?"
(hypernym) artifact, artefact
(hyponym) flagship
4. an event; "a funny thing happened on the way to the..."
(hypernym) happening, occurrence, natural event
(hyponym) feast
5. a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?"
(hypernym) statement
6. any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence; "the thing I like about her is ..."
(hypernym) attribute
7. a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart"
(hypernym) abstraction, abstract
8. a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
(synonym) matter, affair
(hypernym) concern
9. an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was"
(hypernym) entity
(hyponym) change
10. a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds"
(hypernym) aim, object, objective, target
11. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him"
(hypernym) feeling
12. a separate and self-contained entity
(hypernym) entity
(hyponym) anything

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Meaning
A small amount of knowledge can cause people to think they are more expert than they are and consequently make unwise choices.
Origin
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) - An Essay on Criticism .

A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Origin
From Keats' Endymion.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

All good things come to he who waits
Origin
Used, but probably not originated by, Violet Fane (1843-1905) in her poem - Tout vient ß qui sait attendre. 'Ah, 'all things come to those who wait,' (I say these words to make me glad), But something answers soft and sad, 'They come, but often come too late.'

All things must pass
Origin
From the Bible. Matthew 24:6-8:
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.

All things to all men
Origin
From the Bible - Corinthians 9:22.'To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made All things to all men, that I might by all means save some.'

An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
Origin
From Shakespeare's As You Like It.
TOUCHSTONE:
God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like. I
press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country
copulatives, to swear and to forswear: according as
marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin,
sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor
humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else
will: rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a
poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

Things that go bump in the night
Meaning
Frightening supernatural events.
Origin
From the Cornish prayer:
'From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties
And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!'

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
Origin
Quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson. 'To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.'

Too much of a good thing
Origin
From Shakespeare's As You Like It.
ROSALIND: Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us.
Give me your hand, Orlando. What do you say, sister?

Thing
1. unaccountable attitude or feeling about something, as of fear or aversion: “I have a thing about spiders”; 2. sexual feeling for: “She's got a thing for Mr Darcy”; 3. some thing

A sure thing
1. certainty; something assured beyond any doubt; 2. racehorse or greyhound tipped to win; 3. woman who is a definite prospect for sexual intercourse

Boy thing
interest, habit, etc., that is typically male as opposed to female

Do one's thing
act according to one's own self-image

Flaming thing
extra bad

Girl thing
interest, habit, etc., that is typically female as opposed to male

Good thing
racehorse tipped to win

Happening thing
venue, party, place, which is currently very cool

Make a big thing of
turn into a major issue: “OK, so I made a mistake, there's no need to make a big thing of it”

One of those things
event or situation which is unavoidable or which is no longer remediable

Only interested in one thing
(usually said as a warning about males) only interested in sex

Sure thing
assuredly; certainly

The greatest thing since sliced bread
excellent; first-rate: “He thinks he is the greatest thing since sliced bread”

The real thing
genuine article

Thing-a-ma-jigger
term you use when you can't actually remember the name of something

Things are crock in Musselbrook
things are not going well, right

Things are crock in Tallarook
things are not going well, right

Whoop it up
1. raise an outcry or disturbance; 2. have a party or celebration

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thing
\thing\, ting \ting\ ] (?), n. [dan. thing, ting, norw. ting, or sw. ting.] in scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly; -- used, esp. in composition, in titles of such bodies. see legislature, norway.
thing
\thing\ (th&ibreve;ng), n. [as. ?ing a thing, cause, assembly, judicial assembly; akin to ?ingan to negotiate, ?ingian to reconcile, conciliate, d. ding a thing, os. thing thing, assembly, judicial assembly, g. ding a thing, formerly also, an assembly, court, icel. ?ing a thing, assembly, court, sw. & dan. ting; perhaps originally used of the transaction of or before a popular assembly, or the time appointed for such an assembly; cf. g. dingen to bargain, hire, mhg. dingen to hold court, speak before a court, negotiate, goth. ?eihs time, perhaps akin to l. tempus time. cf. hustings, and temporal of time.]
1. whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. god made every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. i. 25. he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of egypt. xiv. 23. a thing of beauty is a joy forever.
2. an inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material. ye meads and groves, unconscious things!
3. a transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed. [and jacob said] all these things are against me. xlii. 36. which if ye tell me, i in like wise will tell you by what authority i do these things. xxi. 24.
4. a portion or part; something. wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom.
5. a diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt. see, sons, what things you are! the poor thing sighed, and turned from me. i'll be this abject thing no more. i have a thing in prose.
6. pl. clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [colloq.]
note: formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural or collective sense. and them she gave her moebles and her thing.
note: thing was used in a very general sense in old english, and is still heard colloquially where some more definite term would be used in careful composition. in the garden [he] walketh to and fro, and hath his things [i. e., prayers, devotions] said full courteously. hearkening his minstrels their things play.
7. (law) whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person.
8. [in this sense pronounced t&ibreve;ng.] in scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.

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  similar words(16) 

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 right thing 
 sure thing 
 living thing 
 bad thing 
 thing-in-itself 
 wrong thing 
 to make a thing one`s business 
 to see about a thing 
 to do a thing on the cross 
 whole thing 
 to face a thing out 
 good thing 
 real thing 
 to be pleased to do a thing 
 to take an act thing amiss 
 to do the handsome thing 

thing
ní(dh) m., rud m.
everything: gach ní(dh)

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Adennilliad
Adennilliad = n. a thing regained

Bachigyn
Bachigyn = n. a very little thing

Bychanigyn
Bychanigyn = n. a very little, small, or minute thing

Cibli
Cibli = n. a favourite thing

Corffilyn
Corffilyn = n. a small thing

Ffril
Ffril = n. a trifling thing

Hynyma
Hynyma = pron. this thing here

Hynyna
Hynyna = pron. that thing there

Lledwigen
Lledwigen = n. a creeping thing

Llewen
Llewen = n. a point to which any thing verges; a focus

Manbeth
Manbeth = n. a small thing

Meinoles
Meinoles = n. a delicate thing

Peth
Peth = n. a thing, a something; a quantity, a part

Pwt
Pwt = n. any short thing

Sarddan
Sarddan = n. a creeping thing

Tlysyn
Tlysyn = n. a pretty thing

Trwlyn
Trwlyn = n. a squabby thing

Thing
Obs. The assembly of free-men and/or barons of Sweden.

By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.

Things, by the common raw, are divided into, 1. Things real, which are such as are permanent, fixed and immovable, and which cannot be carried from place to place; they are are usually said to consist in lands, tenements and hereditaments. 2. Things personal, include all sorts of things movable which attend a man's person wherever he goes. Things personal include not only things movable, but also something more, the whole of which is generally comprehended under the name of chattels. Chattels are distinguished into two kinds, namely, chattels real and chattels personal.

It is proper to remark that sometimes it depends upon the destination of certain objects, whether they are to be considered personal or real property.

Formerly, in England, a very low and contemptuous opinion was entertained of personal property, which was regarded as only a transient commodity. But of late years different ideas have been entertained of it; and the courts, both in that country, and in this, now regard a man's personal property in a light, nearly, if not quite equal to his realty; and have adopted a more enlarged and still Iess technical mode of considering the one than the other, frequently drawn from the rules which they found already established by the Roman law, wherever those rules appear to be well-grounded and apposite to the case in question, but principally from reason and convenience, adapted to the circumstances of the times.

By the Roman or civil law, things are either inpatrimonio, capable of being possessed by single persons exclusive of others; or extra patrimoiium, incapable of being so possessed.

Things in patrimonio are divided into corporeal and incorporeal, and the corporeal again into movable and immovable.

Corporeal things are those which are visible and tangible, as lands, houses, horses, jewels, and the like; incorporeal are not the object of sensation, but are the creatures of the mind, being rights issuing out of a thing corporeal, or concerning or exercisable within the same; as, an obligation, a hypothecation, a servitude, and, in general, that which consists only in a certain right.

Corporeal things are either movable or immovable. The movable are those which have been separated from the earth, as felled trees, or gathered fruits, or stones dug out from quarries or those which are naturally separated, as an-imals. Immovable things are those parts of the surface of the earth, in what-ever manner thev way be distinguished, either as building;, woods, meadows, fields,or otherwise, and to whomsoever they may belong. Under the name of immovables is included everything which adheres to the surface of the earth, either by its nature, as trees; or which has been erected by the hands of man, as houses and other buildings, although, by being separated, such things way become movables.

Things extra patrimonium are, 1. Common. 2. Public. 3. Res universitatis. 4. Res nullius.

Things common are, the heavens, light, air, and the sea, which cannot be appropriated by any man or set of men, so as to deprive others from the. use of them.

Things public, res publicae, the property of which was in the state, and their use common to all the members of it, as navigable rivers, ways, bridges, harbors, banks, and the right of fishing.

Res universitatis, or things belonging to cities or bodies politic. Such things belong to the corporation or body politic in respect of the property of them; but as to their use, they appertain to those persons that are of the corporation or body politic: such may be theatres, market houses, and the like. They differ from things public, inasmuch as the latter belong to a nation. The lands or other revenue belonging to a corporation, do not fall under this class, but, are juris privati.

Res nullius, or things which are not the property of any man or number of men, are principally those of divine right; they are of three sorts: things sacred, things religious, and things sanct. Things sacred were those which were duly and publicly consecrated by the priests, as churches, their ornaments, etc. Things religious were those places which became so by burying in them a dead body, even though no consecration of these spots by a priest had taken place. Things sanct were those which by certain reverential awe arising from their nature, something augmented by religious ceremonies, were guarded and defended from the injuries of men; such were the gates and walls of a city, offences against which were capitally punished.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

thing
res rei, quicumque, quendam

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Thing
The outstretched right hand, palm up and held before the chest, is dropped slightly and brought over a bit to the right.

Cenophobia
Fear of new things or ideas

Dextrophobia
Fear of objects at the right side of the body

Hylephobia
Fear of materialism
Fear of epilepsy

Stenophobia
Fear of narrow things or places

Dabareh
the word; the thing; a bee; obedient
  

Deborah
word; thing; a bee
  

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