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say it: thing
thing is a noun meaning "a special situation". It is pronounced /ˈθɪŋ/ — thing. It carries 12 recorded senses.
an artifact
“how does this thing work?”
a statement regarded as an object
“to say the same thing in other terms”
“how can you say such a thing?”
any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
“the thing I like about her is ...”
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.