9.1.3 Thing
Use this domain for general words referring to things.
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(1) What general words refer to a thing?
Example words: thing, something, article, artifact, entity, item, object, wares
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(2) What words refer to a group of things of different types?
Example words: things, oddments, paraphernalia, stuff, odds and ends, bits and pieces, knick-knacks
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(3) What words are used to refer to something when you can't remember what it is called?
Example words: what's its name, thingy, thingamajig, whatchamacallit, whatsit, such and such
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(4) What words are used to end a list of things to indicate that there are more things in the list?
Example words: et cetera, etc., and what not, and so forth, and the like, and on and on, ... [ellipsis]