things n : any movable possession (especially articles of clothing); "she packed her things and left"

English

Pronunciation

• /θɪŋz/, /TINz/

Noun

things

1. Plural of thing
2. 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)

Synonyms

• stuff

Thing may refer to:

In philosophy:

• An object (philosophy), being, or entity
• Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant

In history:

• Thing (assembly), also transliterated as ting or þing, a historical Scandinavian governing assembly
• Thing (listening device), a Soviet bug used during the Cold War for eavesdropping on the ambassador to the Soviet Union

In fiction:

• Thing (comics), a superhero in the Marvel Universe and member of the Fantastic Four
• Thing (Charlton Comics), a 1950s comic book series from Charlton Comics
• The Thing (film), a 1982 sci-fi/horror film based on the story Who Goes There by John W. Campbell Jr.
• The Thing (video game), a 2002 game loosely based around the events of the 1982 film
• Thing (Addams Family)
• The Thing (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• The Things, recurring characters in the British comic Viz
• Things: A Story of the Sixties, is a novel by Georges Perec.

In music:

• "The Thing (song)", a 1950 song, recorded by Phil Harris and others
• "Things (song)", a 1979 song by Split Enz
• The Thing (jazz band), a jazz band from Norway and Sweden

Thing can also refer to:

• Volkswagen Thing (VW Type 181), an automobile briefly sold in the 1970s
• The Thing?, an attraction in Arizona
• T.H.I.N.G.S., Totally Hilarious Incredibly Neat Games of Skill, a line of toys marketed by the Milton Bradley Company
• In Web Ontology Language, the superclass of all classes
• Things (application), a personal task management software for Mac OS X

accessories, accouterments, appanages, apparatus, appendages, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, belongings, caparison, choses, choses in action, choses in possession, choses local, choses transitory, conveniences, duffel, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings, furniture, gear, getup, harness, impedimenta, installations, kit, livery, machinery, material things, materiel, movables, munition, munitions, outfit, paraphernalia, perquisites, personal effects, plant, plumbing, rig, rigging, stock-in-trade, tackle, trappings, trousseau, turnout, utensils, wardrobe