Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet THING

Definition av THING

1. (historia) ting; mötesplats
2. ting; sak; föremål; väsende

Exempel på hur man kan använda THING i en mening

• This reflected the belief that the world itself was the Word of God and that every living thing had its own special meaning.
• The question of which scope of a subset of DNA (that is, how large a segment of DNA) constitutes a unit of selection is the question that governs whether cistrons are the same thing as genes.
• Some collective nouns are specific to one kind of thing, especially terms of venery, which identify groups of specific animals.
• The relativist fallacy, also known as the subjectivist fallacy, is claiming that something is true for one person but not true for someone else, when in fact that thing is an objective fact.
• Existence monism posits that, strictly speaking, there exists only a single thing, the universe, which can only be artificially and arbitrarily divided into many things.
• A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
• While free software is the same thing as open-source software, OSI preferred to make a pragmatic and business-friendly case for open-source software.
• An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities.
• The common-sense view was originally formulated by John Stuart Mill in A System of Logic (1843), where he defines it as "a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about but not of telling anything about it".
• In common law countries, the intention to possess a thing is a question of fact that can be proven by acts of control and surrounding circumstances.
• In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main verb – that is, the person or thing that undergoes the action or has its state changed.
• The word quarrel is from the Old French quarrel (> French carreau) "square thing", specialized use as quarrel d'arcbaleste (> carreau d'arbalète) "crossbow quarrel", referring to their typically square heads.
• Res ipsa loquitur (Latin: "the thing speaks for itself") is a doctrine in common law and Roman-Dutch law jurisdictions under which a court can infer negligence from the very nature of an accident or injury in the absence of direct evidence on how any defendant behaved in the context of tort litigation.
• As in the case of metaphors, the thing that is being compared is called the tenor, and the thing it is being compared to is called the vehicle.
• In the Tao Te Ching, the semi-legendary ancient philosopher Laozi explains that the Tao is not a name for a thing, but the underlying natural order of the universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe because it is non-conceptual yet evident in one's being of aliveness.
• 17 June (traditional date) – The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, is established at þingvellir ("Thing Fields").
• In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.
• Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair.
• A simple common differentiation for subject and object is: an observer versus a thing that is observed.

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