Definitions for things

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IPA: /θɪŋ/

Things is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in things (ghinst).

Definitions for things

noun

1. a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
2. some entity, object, or creature that is not or cannot be specifically designated or precisely described:
3. anything that is or may become an object of thought:
4. things, matters; affairs:
5. a fact, circumstance, or state of affairs:
6. an action, deed, event, or performance:
7. a particular, respect, or detail:
8. an aim; objective:
9. an article of clothing:
10. things. implements, utensils, or other articles for service: personal possessions or belongings:
11. a task; chore:
12. a living being or creature:
13. a thought or statement:
14. Informal. a particular interest or talent:
15. Informal. a peculiar attitude or feeling, either positive or negative, toward something; mental quirk:
16. something signified or represented, as distinguished from a word, symbol, or idea representing it.
17. a topic, behavior, or activity involving or limited to a specified group:
18. Informal. something that people do (often used in expressions of mild disapproval or mockery):
19. Law. anything that may be the subject of a property right.
20. new thing, Jazz. free jazz.
21. the thing. something that is correct or fashionable: that which is expedient or necessary:
22. (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.

Idioms

1. do / find one's own thing, Informal. to pursue a lifestyle that expresses one's self. Also, do/find one's thing.
2. make a good thing of, Informal. to turn (a situation, experience, etc.) to one's own profit; benefit by:
3. not to get a thing out of, to be unable to obtain information or news from: to fail to appreciate, understand, or derive aesthetic pleasure from:
4. see / hear things, Informal. to have hallucinations.

Origin of things

before 900; Middle English; Old English: originally, “meeting”; see thing²

Examples for things

However, legal issues are only one of the things standing between an ex-prisoner and a job.

Because I was going more on about how things had already been done.

Many other things I saw and heard, but was forbidden to relate.

I think if you keep trying to do things the same way it becomes diminishing returns.

things as trifling as the turning of a shell may restore you to your rights.

I know it all by heart—all the things to say to a man on the downward path.

Although he brings a Western spin to things, he seems equally inspired by the local sense of style.

But he was a man and his own master—if you can rightly call a man his own master that does them things.

I'm going back there, and get things in action, and I'm going to stay by them.

What could be more important, to make sure that side of things is right before we tie ourselves to someone forever?