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  • 101Thing — Thịng 〈n. 11〉 = Ding (I.5) * * * Thịng, das; [e]s, e [nhd. historisierend für ↑ 2Ding]: (bei den Germanen) Volks , Heeres u. Gerichtsversammlung, auf der alle Rechtsangelegenheiten eines Stammes behandelt werden: ein T. einberufen, abhalten. *… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 102Thing — Recorded in many spelling forms including: Thin, Thinn, Thing, Thying, Thynn and Thynne, this is an English medieval surname. It is generally accepted as being a nickname for a slender or lean person, or possibly given the robust humour of… …

    Surnames reference

  • 103Thing — Le Thing était une assemblée réunissant les clans Nordiques pour rendre justice ou pour discuter …

    Mythologie nordique

  • 104THING — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index noun bouquet, matter, novelty, object, odds and ends, stick, thing, thread, wall, web See also …

    English dictionary for students

  • 105thing — [OE] The ancestral meaning of thing is ‘time’: it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thingam, which was related to Gothic theihs ‘time’, and may come ultimately from the Indo European base *ten ‘stretch’ (source of English tend, tense, etc). In …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 106thing — n a synonym for scene, kick, vibe or trip in the sense of main activity or preferred ambience. This item of raffish or hip usage (originating in the USA, probably in the 1940s) has become a well estab lished colloquialism in such phrases as it s… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 107thing —    any taboo object to which you refer allusively    Such as a ghost, for which:     Summut or Things is preferred. (Spectator, February 1902, quoted in EDD)    or the penis, in uses both ancient and modern:     So that s a maid now... shall not… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 108thing-in-itself — /ˌθɪŋ ɪn ɪtˈsɛlf/ (say .thing in it self) noun (in Kantian philosophy) reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. See… …

  • 109thing — n. activity; undertaking (used after a noun to emphasize the particular nature of the noun or create a general idea about that noun). It s a girl thing; you wouldn t understand …

    English slang

  • 110thing — [OE] The ancestral meaning of thing is ‘time’: it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thingam, which was related to Gothic theihs ‘time’, and may come ultimately from the Indo European base *ten ‘stretch’ (source of English tend, tense, etc). In …

    Word origins