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things  

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  • NomBFthing
    1. plural of thing.
      1. One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff.
        1. 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)
    2. Plus d'exemples
      1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
        • Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.
        • The old man and his wife bestirred themselves to make every thing ready for the unexpected guests, ...
        • ... the simplest thing John Prescott could do, to help secure a fourth term for Labour, would be to disapparate, taking his fellow revenants with him. ( - The Observer)
      2. Utilisé au début de la phrase
        • Things would soon become bigger than the local nighteries.
        • Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
        • Things went well through the crisp toasts with oiled acciughe, blistered friggitello peppers from the garden.
      3. Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
        • I’ve had a look-see at your work, and I think you’ve done a pretty good job of things.
        • Luxury did not spoil her; and any one that saw her in the soft furs of her winter wrappings, would have said that delicate cheek and frame were never made to know the unkindliness of harsher things.
        • He just coasts through life like it doesn't mean a thing.

    Meaning of things for the defined word.

    Grammaticalement, ce mot "things" est un nom, plus spécifiquement, un formes de noun.
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      Liens Connexes:
      1. en thingstead
      2. en things-in-themselves
      3. en things that go bump in the night
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