noun (n)

• a special situation(noun.state)

  Example:
  This thing has got to end.
  It is a remarkable thing.
  

  source: wordnet30
• an action(noun.act)

  Example:
  How could you do such a thing?.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a special abstraction(noun.cognition)

  Example:
  A thing of the spirit.
  Things of the heart.
  

  source: wordnet30
• an artifact(noun.artifact)

  Example:
  How does this thing work?.
  

  source: wordnet30
• an event(noun.event)

  Example:
  A funny thing happened on the way to the....
  

  source: wordnet30
• a vaguely specified concern(noun.cognition)

  Example:
  Things are going well.
  

  Synonym:
  affair, matter
  

  source: wordnet30
• a statement regarded as an object(noun.communication)

  Example:
  To say the same thing in other terms.
  How can you say such a thing?.
  

  source: wordnet30
• an entity that is not named specifically(noun.artifact)

  Example:
  I couldn't tell what the thing was.
  

  source: wordnet30
• any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence(noun.attribute)

  Example:
  The thing I like about her is ....
  

  source: wordnet30
• a special objective(noun.cognition)

  Example:
  The thing is to stay in bounds.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion(noun.feeling)

  Example:
  He has a thing about seafood.
  She has a thing about him.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a separate and self-contained entity(noun.tops)

  source: wordnet30
• Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.(noun)

  source: webster1913
• In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly; -- used, esp. in composition, in titles of such bodies. See Legislature, Norway.(noun)

  source: webster1913