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

'Thing' in other languages