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THINGS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
Example:
she packed her things and left
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("things" is a kind of...):
belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)
Context examples:
Consistency, my dear Mr. Brocklehurst; I advocate consistency in all things.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Oh! those things are too common.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
"How will we give the things?" asked Meg.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I thought of the oddest things.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He did not look at things with wide vision.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Things cannot continue as they are.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Well, as things at last fell out, I found an admirable opportunity.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Nothing, as things turned out, but everything had they gone another way.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient show any other signs that he/she doesn't care about doing new things?
(NPI - Show Any Other Signs That He/She Doesn't Care About Doing New Things, NCI Thesaurus)
Does he/she seem to see, hear or experience things that are not present?
(NPI - Hallucinations Such as Seeing False Visions or Hearing False Voices, NCI Thesaurus)
