Synonyms of the word

thing

• n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
• n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
• n. An individual object or distinct entity.
• n. (informal) Something that is normal or generally recognised.
• n. (law).
• n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion.
• n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
• n. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
• n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
• n. (slang) A penis.
• n. A living being or creature.
• n. That which matters; the crux.
• n. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
• n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.).
• n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
• v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.

abstract

• n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
• n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
• n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
• n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
• n. (art) An abstract work of art.
• n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of…
• adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
• adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
• adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
• adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general,…
• adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
• adj. (archaic) Absent-minded.
• adj. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships…
• adj. Insufficiently factual.
• adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
• adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
• adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than…
• v. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
• v. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
• v. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
• v. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically;…
• v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
• v. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
• v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
• v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used…

abstraction

• n. The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken…
• n. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
• n. The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics;…
• n. The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the…
• n. An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
• n. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
• n. (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational…
• n. (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
• n. An idea of an unrealistic or visionary nature.
• n. The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the results of said process.
• n. (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so,…
• n. (computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality…
• n. (computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

affair

• n. That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; business of any kind, commercial, professional,…
• n. Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
• n. (military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
• n. A material object (vaguely designated).
• n. An adulterous relationship (from affaire de cœur).
• n. A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
• n. (slang, now rare) The (male or female) genitals.

aim

• n. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the…
• n. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
• n. Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
• n. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target.
• n. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
• v. (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or…
• v. (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try…
• v. (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act,…
• v. (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group.
• v. (obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
• n. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.

artefact

• n. (British spelling, Australian spelling) alternative form of artifact.

artifact

• n. An object made or shaped by human hand.
• n. (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest,…
• n. Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
• n. A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under…
• n. (biology) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or…
• n. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
• n. (computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result…

attribute

• n. A characteristic or quality of a thing.
• n. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.
• n. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
• n. (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
• n. (computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
• n. (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
• v. To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
• v. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

concern

• n. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. The adposition before…
• n. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
• n. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
• n. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of;…
• v. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
• v. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

feeling

• adj. Emotionally sensitive.
• adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
• n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
• n. Emotion; impression.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
• n. Intuition.
• n. An opinion, an attitude.
• v. present participle of feel.

happening

• v. present participle of happen.
• adj. (slang, of a place) Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable.
• adj. (slang, of a person or product) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.
• n. Something that happens.
• n. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.

matter

• n. Substance, material.
• n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
• n. An approximate amount or extent.
• n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
• n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
• n. (dated) Pus.
• v. (intransitive) To be important.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
• v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

object

• n. A thing that has physical existence.
• n. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
• n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase.…
• n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
• n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
• n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists…
• n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
• v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach;…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

objective

• adj. Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
• adj. Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
• adj. Based on observed facts.
• adj. (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
• adj. (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an…
• n. A material object that physically exists.
• n. A goal that is striven for.
• n. (grammar) The objective case; a noun or pronoun in that case.
• n. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.

occurrence

• n. Actual instance when a situation arises.

occurrent

• adj. Current, actual, occurring.
• n. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.

situation

• n. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
• n. The place in which something is situated; a location.
• n. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
• n. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
• n. (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
• n. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.

statement

• n. A declaration or remark.
• n. A presentation of opinion or position.
• n. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
• n. (computing) An instruction in a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special…

target

• n. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
• n. A goal or objective.
• n. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
• n. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually…
• n. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
• n. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
• n. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
• n. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to…
• n. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
• n. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
• n. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer,…
• n. (Britain, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast…
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
• n. (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
• v. (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
• v. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.