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"

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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. Louise 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

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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. Robert Smith:

   Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things.

2. Bertrand Russell:

   The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.

3. Viktor Hovland:

   It's obviously cool to perform such a thing and I hope that I can feed off of this going into my professional career and do more things like this and be in contention of winning tournaments.

4. Bill Knightly:

   It comes down to some basic concepts, things like colored carpet or, in a less sophisticated or expensive application, taping off what six-feet workstations look like, so it's very visual. In some cases, installing Plexiglas or some other form of sneeze or cough guards to give folks additional insurance.

5. Howard Johnson:

   M-O-T-H-E-R M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old, T is for the tears she shed to save me, H is for her heart of purest gold E is for her eyes, with love-light shining, R means right, and right she'll always be, Put them all together, they spell MOTHER, A word that means the world to me.

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