thing
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a special situation
this thing has got to end
Types & categories
- situation hypernym
Sense 2 noun
an action
how could you do such a thing?
Types & categories
- action hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a special abstraction
a thing of the spirit
Types & categories
- abstraction hypernym
Sense 4 noun
an artifact
how does this thing work?
Types & categories
Sense 5 noun
an event
a funny thing happened on the way to the...
Types & categories
Sense 6 noun
a vaguely specified concern
several matters to attend to
Types & categories
Sense 7 noun
a statement regarded as an object
to say the same thing in other terms
Types & categories
- statement hypernym
Sense 8 noun
an entity that is not named specifically
I couldn't tell what the thing was
Types & categories
Sense 9 noun
any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
the thing I like about her is ...
Types & categories
- attribute hypernym
Sense 10 noun
a special objective
the thing is to stay in bounds
Types & categories
- objective hypernym
Sense 11 noun
a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
he has a thing about seafood
Types & categories
- feeling hypernym
Sense 12 noun
a separate and self-contained entity
Types & categories
- physical entity hypernym
- depicted object hyponym
- body of water hyponym
- inessential hyponym
- essential hyponym
- part hyponym
- reservoir hyponym
- building block hyponym
- variable hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | situation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | action |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | abstraction |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | artifact |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | flagship |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | pill |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | snorter |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | standby |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | variation |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | wobbler |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | happening |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | feast |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | concern |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | least |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | statement |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | entity |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | change |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | freshener |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | horror |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | jimdandy |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | pacifier |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | security blanket |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | stinker |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | whacker |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | attribute |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | objective |
| 11 | hypernym | Types & categories | feeling |
| 12 | hypernym | Types & categories | physical entity |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | depicted object |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | body of water |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | inessential |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | essential |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | part |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | reservoir |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | building block |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | variable |