dictionary definitions for "something"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Something \Some"thing\, n.
     1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically
        designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate
        or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
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              There is something in the wind.       --Shak.
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              The whole world has something to do, something to
              talk of, something to wish for, and something to be
              employed about.                       --Pope.
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              Something attemped, something done,
              Has earned a night's repose.          --Longfellow.
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     2. A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or
        degree; a little.
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              Something yet of doubt remains.       --Milton.
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              Something of it arises from our infant state. --I.
                                                    Watts.
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     3. A person or thing importance.
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              If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he
              is nothing, he deceiveth himself.     --Gal. vi. 3.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Something \Some"thing\, adv.
     In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
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           I something fear my father's wrath.      --Shak.
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           We have something fairer play than a reasoner could
           have expected formerly.                  --Burke.
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           My sense of touch is something coarse.   --Tennyson.
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           It must be done to-night,
           And something from the palace.           --Shak.
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