An animate thing; something that lives, as opposed to being inanimate or dead.

Someone or something to be pitied

A considerable amount; a lot.

Early in the morning. / Straight away, very soon.

The basic idea of how to do something. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, thing.

(informal) To be in a casual romantic relationship. / (informal, usually with "for") To have a crush on, or a soft spot for, someone.

To be reasonable or easy; used to contrast one simple or sensible option with one that is not.

Synonym of soft snap

Free jazz music, as associated with the black civil rights movement.

A branch of critical theory that focuses on human–object interactions in literature and culture, borrowing from Heidegger's distinction between objects and things, which posits that an object becomes a thing when it can no longer serve its common function.