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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  thing
      n 1: a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a
           remarkable thing"
      2: an action; "how could you do such a thing?"
      3: a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of
         the heart"
      4: an artifact; "how does this thing work?"
      5: an event; "a funny thing happened on the way to the..."
      6: a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to";
         "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well" [syn:
         {matter}, {affair}, {thing}]
      7: a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in
         other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?"
      8: an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell
         what the thing was"
      9: any attribute or quality considered as having its own
         existence; "the thing I like about her is ..."
      10: a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds"
      11: a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "he
          has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him"
      12: a separate and self-contained entity