thing in WordNet English dictionary

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