thing | a separate and selfontained entity |
living thing animate thing | a living (or once living) entity |
thing | an action, how could you do such a thing? |
near thing | something that barely avoids failure or disaster |
thing | an artifact, how does this thing work? |
thing | an entity that is not named specifically, I couldn't tell what the thing was |
thing | any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence, the thing I like about her is ... |
certainty sure thing foregone conclusion | something that is certain, his victory is a certainty |
real McCoy real thing real stuff | informal usage attributing authenticity |
matter affair thing | a vaguely specified concern, several matters to attend to, it is none of your affair, things are going well |
noumenon thing-in-itself | the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception |
thing | a special abstraction, a thing of the spirit, things of the heart |
thing | a special objective, the thing is to stay in bounds |
principal axis optic axis | a line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refracted, in a normal eye the optic axis is the direction in which objects are seen most distinctly |
thing | a statement regarded as an object, to say the same thing in other terms, how can you say such a thing? |
thing | an event, a funny thing happened on the way to the... |
thing | a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion, he has a thing about seafood, she has a thing about him |
main diagonal principal diagonal | the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry |
principal dealer | the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange, buys and sells for his own account |
principal school principal head teacher head | the educator who has executive authority for a school, she sent unruly pupils to see the principal |
principal | (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement |
principal investigator PI | the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project |
star principal lead | an actor who plays a principal role |
principal corpus principal sum | capital as contrasted with the income derived from it |
principal | the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated |
thing | a special situation, this thing has got to end, it is a remarkable thing |
chief(a) main(a) primary(a) principal(a) master(a) | most important element, the chief aim of living, the main doors were of solid glass, the principal rivers of America, the principal example, policemen were primary targets, the master bedroom, a master switch |