Definizione monolingua

thing

thing (plural things)

1. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
2. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
3. An individual object or distinct entity.
4. (law) whatever can be owned.
5. The latest fad or fashion.
6. (in the plural) clothes, possessions or equipment.
7. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.

   Get me a thing of apple juice at the store.

   I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans.

8. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.

   The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety.

9. (slang) A penis.
10. A living being or creature.

    you poor thing

11. That which matters; the crux.

    Thats the thing: we dont know where he went.

    The thing is, I dont have any money.

12. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the nouns referent.

    Oh yeah, Im supposed to promote that vision thing.

13. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
    • 1974, Jón Jóhannesson, A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Íslendinga Saga, translated by Haraldur Bessason, page 46:

      In accordance with Old Germanic custom men came to the thing fully armed, [...]

    • 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.

    • 1988, Jesse L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 59:

      All Icelandic things were skap-thing, meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places.

Definizione dizionario thing

	cosa
	a separate entity or concept
	any physical or psychical entity
	Ciò che si considera esistente come entità, qualità o concetto.
	That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, quality or concept.

affare

aggeggio

arnese

che

coso

faccenda

materia

ogetto

oggetto

Altri significati:

thing (object, fact, abstraction)

A word, symbol, sign or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.

a legislative or judicial assembly

(informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.

A living being or creature.

In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.

(in certain fixed expressions) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.

(in the plural) clothes, possessions or equipment.

the latest fad or fashion.

(law) whatever can be owned.

That which matters; the crux.

an abstract thought or idea, often after an adjective

That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.

An individual object or distinct entity.

(slang) A penis.

Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.