thing
noun
a special situation
“this thing has got to end”
“it is a remarkable thing”
an action
“how could you do such a thing?”
a special abstraction
“a thing of the spirit”
“things of the heart”
an artifact
“how does this thing work?”
an event
“a funny thing happened on the way to the...”
a vaguely specified concern
“several matters to attend to”
“it is none of your affair”
a statement regarded as an object
“to say the same thing in other terms”
“how can you say such a thing?”
an entity that is not named specifically
“I couldn't tell what the thing was”
any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
“the thing I like about her is ...”
a special objective
“the thing is to stay in bounds”
a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
“he has a thing about seafood”
“she has a thing about him”
a separate and self-contained entity
Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University