dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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Sounds | thih'ng |
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Rhymes | abating, abducting, abiding, and 2078 more rhymes in ihng at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A special situation. |
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Examples | "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing" |
Broader | situation, state of affairs |
Meaning | An action. |
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Examples | "how could you do such a thing?" |
Broader | action |
Meaning | An artifact. |
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Examples | "how does this thing work?" |
Narrower | flagship; pill; snorter; standby; variation; wobbler |
Broader | artifact, artefact |
Meaning | An event. |
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Examples | "a funny thing happened on the way to the..." |
Narrower | feast |
Broader | happening, occurrence, natural event |
Meaning | A statement regarded as an object. |
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Examples | "to say the same thing in other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?" |
Broader | statement |
Meaning | Any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence. |
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Examples | "the thing I like about her is ..." |
Broader | attribute |
Meaning | A special abstraction. |
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Examples | "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart" |
Broader | abstraction, abstract |
Meaning | A vaguely specified concern. |
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Examples | "things are going well" |
Synonyms | matter, affair |
Broader | concern |
Meaning | An entity that is not named specifically. |
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Examples | "I couldn't tell what the thing was" |
Narrower | change; freshener; horror; jimdandy, jimhickey, crackerjack; security blanket; stinker; whacker, whopper |
Broader | entity |
Meaning | A special objective. |
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Examples | "the thing is to stay in bounds" |
Broader | aim, object, objective, target |
Meaning | A persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion. |
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Examples | "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him" |
Broader | feeling |
Meaning | A separate and self-contained entity. |
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Narrower | anything; something; nothing, nonentity; subject, content, depicted object; body of water, water; inessential, nonessential; necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary; part, piece; reservoir, source; unit, building block; variable |
Broader | entity |