thing
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asia
pääasia
päähänpinttymä
juttu
ominaisuus
tilanne
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Substantiivi
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thing englanniksi
That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
(RQ:KJV)
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A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
An individual object or distinct entity.
Whatever can be owned.
Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
(ux)
1802, Anne Ormsby, "Memoirs of a Family in Swisserland", quoted in ''The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal'' page 45:
- To go to bed late, to rise late, to breakfast late, to dine late, and to visit late, is to be “quite the thing,” or in good English, which you may understand better than the first phrase, to be in the fashion.
{{quote-book|en|year=2002|author=Roger Nichols|title=The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=9780520237360
(senseid) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief). (defdate)
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{{quote-book|en|year=2019|author=Adam Gopnik|title=A Thousand Small Sanities|publisher=Riverrun|year_published=2019|page=88
A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
{{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Juliette Fay|title=Deep Down True: A Novel|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781101486184
A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
The central point; the crux.
A penis.
(RQ:William Burroughs Naked Lunch)
(quote-book)|title=My Blue-Checker Corker and Me|publisher=Fontana/Collins|location=Sydney|page=65|text=‘They reckon she lets her dogs lick her thing.’
(ng)
1914, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, ''The Movie Man'' playscript:
- ''Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing.'' (qualifier)
That which is favoured; personal preference.
2002, (w) ''et al'', "Never Leave Me", ''(w)'' (TV episode):
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2006, (w), interview with ''(w)'' magazine:
One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
2006, (w), ''Catching the Big Fish'', Tarcher 2006, "Darkness", p. 91:
- But I'm just a guy from Missoula, Montana, doing my thing, going down the road like everybody else.
A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
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1974, Jakob Benediktsson, ''Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis'', in ''Saga Íslands'', quoted in 1988 by Jesse L. Byock in ''Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power'', page 85:
- The ''goðar'' seem both to have received payment of ''thing-fararkaup'' from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing, and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
{{quote-text|en|year=1988|author=Jesse L. Byock|title=Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power|page=59
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(alt form)
Girl; attractive woman.
To express as a thing; to reify.
(alternative form of)
(l), object