something
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- //ˈsʌm.θɪŋ//
An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
pronome
- 1
An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what.
I have something for you in my bag.
I have a feeling something good is going to happen today.
The answer to four down is P something T something Y.
- 2
A quality to a moderate degree.
The performance was something of a disappointment.
That child is something of a genius.
The car has something of a history attached to it.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
- 3
A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
She has a certain something.
- 4
Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.
He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.
She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.
Some marmosets are less than six inches tall. —Well, isn't that something?
Kanye [West]'s speech was...something, that's for sure. As for a best or worst moment? Apparently, it depends on what you think of Yeezy because Twitter was a house divided.
Etimologia
From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).
adjetivo
- 1
Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
She was so something that she cried all the way home.
"Very poetic." They came to a halt before the outer door. "It's very something," Rusty said wistfully. "How do you do it?"
"It's very — it's very something," said Lucy. "It's a kind of love-letter, isn't it?"
If it isn't large, I certainly can't say it's small. But it's very something.
advérbio
- 1
Somewhat; to a degree.
The baby looks something like his father.
Angelo. Yet giue leaue (my Lord,) That we may bring you something on the way
- 2
Used to adverbialise a following adjective
I miss them something terrible/rotten. (I miss them terribly)
You can't thrash when you have rheumatic fever – though you want to something awful, Mrs. White says.
Seeing him here, though, I all of a sudden feel more like I been gone from home three years, instead of three weeks, and I miss my people something fierce.
And then she put the coffin right out on her front porch. Jim told everyone he'd built it kind of roomy since Bobby Lee was on the stout side, but that it better get used quick because sycamore tends to warp something terrible.
verbo
- 1
Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140439234&id=IOZeJi7U4eEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&sig=LW2P-uKmoZabe70ZKnIHIMQLXlw He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said.
2003, George Angel, “Allegoady,” in Juncture, Lara Stapleton and Veronica Gonzalez edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1887128913&id=qB-D32yV1VAC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&sig=9AYyYLA-MQqTgAbptreoe3VyOzQ She hovers over the something somethinging and awkwardly lowers her bulk.
2005, Floyd Skloot, A World of Light http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803243189&id=TEgRGe6FiTkC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&sig=zEj4BPQ0eEFkj6LdOI8eRJlZrzE “Oh how we somethinged on the hmmm hmm we were wed. Dear, was I ever on the stage?”
substantivo
- 1
An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light of a lamp lit somewhere within.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
- 2
An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for?
2004, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0060738197&id=rKeKLf7LeXAC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&sig=uAeyLuj-HYk1dLAme_rokCWQITc She wiped something with a cloth, wiped at the wall shelf, and put the something on it, clinking glass.
Formas
- plural
- somethings
- pretérito
- somethinged
- particípio passado
- somethinged
- gerúndio
- somethinging
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- somethings
something · An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
sometime · At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.sometimes · On some occasions, over some periods, or in certain…somewhat · To a limited extent or degree; not completely.