Thing can be categorized as a noun.
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| thing - a separate and self-contained entity | ||
| thing - an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was" | ||
| thing - an artifact; "how does this thing work?" | ||
| thing - an event; "a funny thing happened on the way to the..." | ||
| thing - an action; "how could you do such a thing?" | ||
| thing - any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence; "the thing I like about her is ..." | ||
| thing - a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart" | ||
| thing - a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds" | ||
| thing - a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?" | ||
| thing - a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him" | ||
| thing - a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing" | ||
| thing - a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well" |
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| 1. | noun | I couldn't tell what the thing was. | |
| 2. | noun | How does this thing work? | |
| 3. | noun | A funny thing happened on the way to the... | |
| 4. | noun | How could you do such a thing? | |
| 5. | noun | The thing I like about her is ... | |
| 6. | noun | A thing of the spirit. | |
| 7. | noun | The thing is to stay in bounds. | |
| 8. | noun | To say the same thing in other terms. | |
| 9. | noun | How can you say such a thing? | |
| 10. | noun | He has a thing about seafood. | |
| 11. | noun | She has a thing about him. | |
| 12. | noun | This thing has got to end. | |
| 13. | noun | It is a remarkable thing. | |
| 14. | noun | I guess it's just the old new Arab 'Me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousin, me and my cousin against my enemy', or 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' thing going on again. | |
| 15. | noun | The thing to keep in mind is that Sunni Arab nationalists and Baathists and local Sunni radicals are likely to remain far more dangerous to the US in Iraq than al-Qaeda infiltrators, and it would be dangerous to take one's eyes off the former ball. |
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| I couldn't tell what the thing was. |
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| How does this thing work? |
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| A funny thing happened on the way to the... |
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| How could you do such a thing? |
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| The thing I like about her is ... |
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| A thing of the spirit. |
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| The thing is to stay in bounds. |
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| To say the same thing in other terms. |
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| How can you say such a thing? |
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| He has a thing about seafood. |
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| She has a thing about him. |
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| This thing has got to end. |
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| It is a remarkable thing. |
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| I guess it's just the old new Arab 'Me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousin, me and my cousin against my enemy', or 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' thing going on again. |
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| The thing to keep in mind is that Sunni Arab nationalists and Baathists and local Sunni radicals are likely to remain far more dangerous to the US in Iraq than al-Qaeda infiltrators, and it would be dangerous to take one's eyes off the former ball. |
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