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  • Living Thing — Living Thing …   Википедия

  • living thing — noun a living (or once living) entity (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑animate thing • Members of this Topic: ↑young, ↑immature, ↑viability • Hypernyms: ↑whole, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • thing — n. deed event 1) to do a thing (she did a nice thing when she offered to help; to do great things; to do the right thing) 2) a bad; difficult; easy; good; mean; nasty; nice; sensible; strange; stupid; terrible thing; the right; wrong thing 3) a… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • thing — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, thing, assembly; akin to Old High German ding thing, assembly, Gothic theihs time Date: before 12th century 1. a. a matter of concern ; affair < many things to do > b. plural state of affairs in… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • living being — Synonyms and related words: aerobic organism, anaerobic organism, animal, autotrophic organism, beast, being, brute, creature, creeping thing, critter, dumb animal, dumb friend, genetic individual, heterotrophic organism, individual, living thing …   Moby Thesaurus

  • thing — W1S1 [θıŋ] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(idea/action/feeling/fact)¦ 2¦(object)¦ 3¦(situation)¦ 4¦(nothing)¦ 5¦(person/animal)¦ 6¦(make a comment)¦ 7 the thing is 8 the last thing somebody wants/expects/needs etc 9 last thing …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Thing — (th[i^]ng), n. [AS. [thorn]ing a thing, cause, assembly, judicial assembly; akin to [thorn]ingan to negotiate, [thorn]ingian to reconcile, conciliate, D. ding a thing, OS. thing thing, assembly, judicial assembly, G. ding a thing, formerly also,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • thing — 1 matter, concern, business, *affair 2 Thing, object, article are comprehensive terms applicable to whatever is apprehended as having actual, distinct, and demonstrable existence. They vary, however, in their range of application. Thing is the… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Living fossil — is an informal term for any living species (or clade) of organism which appears to be the same as a species otherwise only known from fossils and has no close living relatives. These species have all survived major extinction events, and… …   Wikipedia

  • Thing-Fish — Infobox Album | Name = Thing Fish Type = Album Artist = Frank Zappa Released = December 21 1984 Recorded = 1980 – 1984 Genre = Progressive rock, art rock, experimental rock, hard rock Length = 90:58 Label = Barking Pumpkin Records Capitol Records …   Wikipedia

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