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