Thing

Noun

 * 1) That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
 * 2) A word, symbol, sign or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
 * 3) An individual object or distinct entity.
 * 4)  whatever can be owned.
 * 5) the latest fad or fashion.
 * 6)  clothes, possessions or equipment.
 * 7)  A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
 * Get me a thing of apple juice at the store.
 * I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans.
 * 1) In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.
 * 2) (in certain fixed expressions) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
 * The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety.
 * 1)  A penis.
 * 2) A living being or creature.
 * you poor thing
 * 1) That which matters; the crux.
 * That's the thing: we don't know where he went.
 * The thing is, I don't have any money.
 * Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing.
 * Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing.

Quotations

 * 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
 * Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
 * 1914, O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone, The Movie Man [playscript].
 * Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing. (in reference to the execution of Fernandez).

Synonyms

 * stuff (uncountable equivalent)
 * item
 * yoke (Ireland)

Derived terms

 * anything
 * everything
 * here's the thing
 * nothing
 * something


 * swing of things
 * the thing is
 * thingal
 * thingamajig
 * thinger


 * thinghood
 * thingly
 * thingness
 * thingo
 * thingy

Related terms

 * diminutives: thingy / thingie, thingo [Aus]

Thesaurus
accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, activities, activity, adventure, affair, affairs, affection, affinity, an existence, apparatus, apparel, area, article, artifact, aspect, attire, attitude, aversion, bag, baggage, being, belongings, bent, bias, blow, body, business, case, chance, chattels, chore, chosen kind, circumstance, circumstances, clobber, clothes, clothing, commerce, concern, concernment, concerns, constituent, contrivance, count, coup, crap, craze, creature, critter, cry, cup of tea, datum, dealings, deed, detail, detestation, device, dingus, dislike, dofunny, dohickey, doing, doings, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, dress, druthers, duds, effects, effort, element, employ, employment, endeavor, entelechy, enterprise, entity, episode, eppes, equipment, etwas, event, events, existence, existent, exploit, facet, fact, factor, fad, fait accompli, fancy, fashion, favor, fear, feat, feature, feeling, fetish, field, fixation, flumadiddle, forte, function, furore, gadget, gear, gest, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, go, goods, habiliments, hand, handiwork, hang-up, happening, happenings, hickey, hootenanny, hootmalalie, horror, idee fixe, impedimenta, implements, incident, incidental, inclination, individual, instance, instrument, interest, item, jigger, job, junk, labor, lares and penates, leaning, life, liking, line, loathing, long suit, lookout, love, luggage, main interest, maneuver, mania, manner, material, material thing, matter, matters, measure, mechanism, metier, minor detail, minutia, minutiae, mode, monad, movables, move, object, obsession, occasion, occupation, operation, opportunity, organism, overt act, paraphernalia, partiality, particular, particular choice, passage, passion, performance, person, persona, personal choice, personality, pet subject, phobia, point, possession, possessions, possibility, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, preoccupation, prepossession, proceeding, proclivity, production, pursuit, quelque chose, quirk, rage, raiment, reaction, regard, res gestae, respect, responsibility, right, rightfulness, rightness, sentiment, service, shit, something, soul, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, step, stroke, strong point, stuff, stunt, style, subject, substance, task, taste, technicality, tendency, terror, the last word, the latest thing, the latest wrinkle, the proper thing, the rage, the seemly, the thing, thing done, things, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, togs, tools, tour de force, transaction, traps, trend, tricks, turn, type, undertaking, unit, utensil, utensils, vocation, vogue, way, weakness, what is done, what is right, what should be, whatchy, widget, work, works

Etymology
From, from þing:.

From ; compare German Ding:, Danish and Norwegian ting:.

Originally meaning an assembly, that handled political and court issues. Later an issue at that assembly was called a “thing”, leading to today's meaning “an object”. Compare Latin res, also meaning legal matter.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شيء
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: gauza
 * Belarusian: рэч
 * Bengali: বস্তু
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: tra
 * Bulgarian: нещо (nešto), предмет (predmet) , вещ (vešt)
 * Catalan: cosa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 東西, 东西 (dung1 sai1), 物 (mat6), 事物 (si6 mat6)
 * Mandarin: 東西, 东西, 物, 事物
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: chose, truc , machin
 * Galician: cousa
 * Georgian: ნივთი (nivt‘i), საგანი (sagani)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: mba'e
 * Gujarati: વસ્તુ (vastu)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hawaiian: mea
 * Hebrew: דבר
 * Hindi: वस्तू, चीज़
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: kozo
 * Indonesian: benda, barang, makhluk
 * Interlingua: cosa
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 物, 事


 * Javanese: barang
 * Korean: 물건
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: شت
 * Latin:, ens, ens
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:, daiktas
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: ħaġa
 * Marathi: वस्तु (vastu)
 * Mongolian: юм
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Occitan:
 * Old English:
 * Persian: چیز
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਸ਼ੈ (šai)
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: вещь
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ствар
 * Roman: stvar
 * Slovak: vec
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kitu, vitu pl (noun 7/8)
 * Swedish:, , grej
 * Telugu: (vastuvu)
 * Thai: ,
 * Tupinambá: mba'e
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: річ
 * Urdu: وستو, چیز
 * Vietnamese: vật, điều
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ding
 * Yiddish: זאַך (zakh), חפֿץ (kheyfets)


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شيء
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: gauza
 * Belarusian: рэч
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 東西, 东西 (dung1 sai1), 物 (mat6), 事物 (si6 mat6)
 * Mandarin: 東西, 东西, 物, 事物
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: chose, truc , machin
 * Galician: cousa
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Guaraní: mba'e
 * Gujarati: વસ્તુ (vastu)
 * Hebrew: דבר
 * Hindi: वस्तू, चीज़
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: kozo
 * Indonesian: benda, barang, makhluk
 * Interlingua: cosa
 * Inuktitut: ᐱ
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 物
 * Korean: 물건
 * Latin:, ens


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi: वस्तु (vastu)
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Old English:
 * Persian: چیز
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: вещь, предмет
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ствар
 * Roman: stvar
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kitu, vitu pl (noun 7/8)
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: (vastuvu)
 * Thai: สิ่ง
 * Tupinambá: mba'e
 * Ukrainian: річ
 * Urdu: وستو, چیز
 * Vietnamese: vật, điều
 * Volapük: din
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ding


 * German:
 * Norwegian:


 * Swedish:


 * : දෙය (deya)

Anagrams

 * night, Night

Noun

 * 1) thing, object
 * 2) case, matter, issue

Etymology
From.

Descendants

 * Dutch: