thing

a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing"

an action; "how could you do such a thing?"

a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart"

an artifact; "how does this thing work?"

an event; "a funny thing happened on the way to the..."

a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"

a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?"

an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was"

any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence; "the thing I like about her is ..."

a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds"

a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him"

a separate and self-contained entity