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(predicative) The needful thing: something suitable for the purpose. / (predicative) The desired thing: someone or something that is popularly favored.

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the thing

Noun

predicative

Japanese Meaning

目的にかなうもの、必要とされるもの / 好まれるもの、人気のあるもの

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For assembling the bookshelf, a small wrench was the thing that made the job easy.

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本棚を組み立てるには、小さなレンチが仕事を楽にしてくれる必要な道具だった。

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(predicative) The needful thing: something suitable for the purpose.

This book isn't quite the thing.

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(predicative) The desired thing: someone or something that is popularly favored.

He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.

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