Definitions for things
things

Princeton's WordNet(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. thingsnoun

   any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)

   "she packed her things and left"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. thingsnoun

   One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff

   Ole Golly just had indoor things and outdoor things.... She just had yards and yards of tweed which enveloped her like a lot of discarded blankets, which ballooned out when she walked, and which she referred to as her Things. u2014Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (1964)

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1. Things

   Things is a personal task management application for Mac OS X made by Cultured Code, a software startup based in Stuttgart, Germany. The 1.0 release on OS X was on January 6, 2009. The app went on to win an Apple Design Award at WWDC the same year; it also received a 4.5 of 5 review in Macworld, and was awarded an Editors Choice Award.

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1. things

   Plural form of thing.

   We put our luggage in the car for our honeymoon, we are so delighted to be husband and wife.

   Submitted by MaryC on December 19, 2015  

Matched Categories

1. • Belongings

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'things' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #249

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'things' in Written Corpus Frequency: #135

Anagrams for things »

1. nights

How to pronounce things?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say things in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of things in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of things in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of things in a Sentence

1. Chris Lambert:

   I can’t step away from it for more than a few days, i just get sucked right back in because I want to be resolving things.

2. Mike Schuetz:

   I ’m very pleased and very happy that the current administration and the DOJ have chosen to terminate it, however, it does n’t fix my situation. But it does prevent someone else from having to deal with things I had to deal with.

3. Ellen Stofan:

   Think about these things you used to see on TV from science fiction, like communicators on Star Trek, well now we actually have them, space exploration pushes us to say 'here's things we've just dreamed about, but we can turn that into reality.'.

4. Oliver Chen:

   There are all these activities -- mopping, checking inventory, unpacking trucks -- that are not sexy, but are required, if you can utilize technology to make that happen, you can free up labor to do other things.

5. Timothy Kaldas:

   The policy of import substitution was popular during the period of decolonization ... It's one of those policies that looks good on paper but doesn't work, lots of things are imported because there is no alternative but also because they are cheaper than domestic alternatives. There are many imports poor people depend on. Even if in theory local production could pick up the slack it would take time and in the meantime we could see a sharp reduction in employment.

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