Thing vs. Equipment

Thingnoun

That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.

Equipmentnoun

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

Thingnoun

A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.

Equipmentnoun

Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.

Thingnoun

An individual object or distinct entity.

Equipmentnoun

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

‘The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.’;

Thingnoun

(informal) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (contrary to expectation or belief).

‘Bacon pie? Is that a thing?’;

Equipmentnoun

Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.

‘Armed and dight,In the equipments of a knight.’;

Thingnoun

(legal)

Equipmentnoun

an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service

Thingnoun

Whatever can be owned.

Thingnoun

Corporeal object.

Thingnoun

The latest fad or fashion.

‘What do you mean you don't twerk, Stacy? It's the latest thing!’;

Thingnoun

(in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.

‘Hold on, let me just grab my things.’;

Thingnoun

(informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.

‘get me a thing of apple juice at the store;’; ‘I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans’;

Thingnoun

(informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.

‘The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety.’;

Thingnoun

(slang) A penis.

Thingnoun

A living being or creature.

‘you poor thing;’; ‘she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place;’; ‘I met a pretty blond thing at the bar’;

Thingnoun

That which matters; the crux.

‘that's the thing: we don't know where he went;’; ‘the thing is, I don't have any money’;

Thingnoun

Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.

‘Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing.’;

Thingnoun

(informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)

Thingnoun

A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.

Thingnoun

(informal) A romantic relationship.

Thingverb

(rare) To express as a thing; to reify.

Thingnoun

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

‘God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind.’; ‘He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt.’; ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever.’;

Thingnoun

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

‘Ye meads and groves, unconscious things!’;

Thingnoun

A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed.

‘[And Jacob said] All these things are against me.’; ‘Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.’;

Thingnoun

A portion or part; something.

‘Wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom.’;

Thingnoun

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

‘See, sons, what things you are!’; ‘The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me.’; ‘I'll be this abject thing no more.’; ‘I have a thing in prose.’;

Thingnoun

Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things.

‘And them she gave her moebles and her thing.’; ‘In the garden [he] walketh to and fro,And hath his things [i. e., prayers, devotions] said full courteously.’; ‘Hearkening his minstrels their things play.’;

Thingnoun

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

Thingnoun

In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.

Thingnoun

In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly; - used, esp. in composition, in titles of such bodies. See Legislature, Norway.

Thingnoun

a special situation;

‘this thing has got to end’; ‘it is a remarkable thing’;

Thingnoun

an action;

‘how could you do such a thing?’;

Thingnoun

an artifact;

‘how does this thing work?’;

Thingnoun

an event;

‘a funny thing happened on the way to the...’;

Thingnoun

a statement regarded as an object;

‘to say the same thing in other terms’; ‘how can you say such a thing?’;

Thingnoun

any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence;

‘the thing I like about her is ...’;

Thingnoun

a special abstraction;

‘a thing of the spirit’; ‘things of the heart’;

Thingnoun

a vaguely specified concern;

‘several matters to attend to’; ‘it is none of your affair’; ‘things are going well’;

Thingnoun

an entity that is not named specifically;

‘I couldn't tell what the thing was’;

Thingnoun

a special objective;

‘the thing is to stay in bounds’;

Thingnoun

a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion;

‘he has a thing about seafood’; ‘she has a thing about him’;

Thingnoun

a separate and self-contained entity