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