Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material.

A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.

In OWL, a generic name for anything - abstract, animate, inanimate, whatever. The class which anything is in. (In RDF parlance, confusingly, rdf:Resource.) Identified by a URI with or without a "#" in it. Tip: Saying something is a Thing doesn't tell anyone anything, which is why you don't see it much.

In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.

The Icelandic parliament, the oldest in the world, is called the Thingmote. This expression contains in frozen form one of the great lost insights about human communications.

An assembly.

A thing or ting (Old Norse and Icelandic: þing; other modern Scandinavian languages: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers. Today the term lives on in the official names of national legislatures, political and judicial institutions in the North-Germanic countries. The English word 'thing', meaning "object" is also derived from this; the evolution having been roughly "assembly" → "court" → "case" → "business" → "purpose" → "object".

a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide As the id goes marching on

A Thing is a card which, when played, is placed on the table in front of the Player who played it. When a Thing is destroyed, it goes to the discard pile.

Thing is a fictional character in the The Addams Family. Thing takes the form of a disembodied hand who performs various useful functions for the family.

The Thing is the name given to the shapeshifting alien in the classic science fiction novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr. The origins of the Thing are unknown, although the protagonists of the story surmise that its race originated on a hotter planet than Earth, circling a bluer sun than Sol.

Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person.

an exclusive property if my possession of it excludes you from possessing it

a node, a node type, a user, a taxo term, a relation, whatever else you can dream of

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a cpmpletely different issue and will be looked at differently

a third possibility, that we just have a different set of rules over here, or we interpret them differently