THING

A special situation

Example: "This thing has got to end"

An action

Example: "How could you do such a thing?"

A special abstraction

Example: "A thing of the spirit"

An artifact

Example: "How does this thing work?"

An event

Example: "A funny thing happened on the way to the..."

A vaguely specified concern

Example: "Several matters to attend to"

A statement regarded as an object

Example: "To say the same thing in other terms"

An entity that is not named specifically

Example: "I couldn't tell what the thing was"

Any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence

Example: "The thing i like about her is ..."

A special objective

Example: "The thing is to stay in bounds"

A persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion

Example: "He has a thing about seafood"

A separate and self-contained entity