to talk about one thing and another

  • 1another — [[t]ənʌ̱ðə(r)[/t]] ♦ 1) DET: DET sing n Another thing or person means an additional thing or person of the same type as one that already exists. Divers this morning found the body of another American sailor drowned during yesterday s ferry… …

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  • 2thing — W1S1 [θıŋ] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(idea/action/feeling/fact)¦ 2¦(object)¦ 3¦(situation)¦ 4¦(nothing)¦ 5¦(person/animal)¦ 6¦(make a comment)¦ 7 the thing is 8 the last thing somebody wants/expects/needs etc 9 last thing …

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  • 3thing — [[t]θɪ̱ŋ[/t]] ♦ things 1) N COUNT: usu with supp You can use thing to refer to any object, feature, or event when you cannot, need not, or do not want to refer to it more precisely. What s that thing in the middle of the fountain? Some kind of… …

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  • 4thing — /TIN/ noun 1 IDEA/ACTION/FEELING/FACT (C) anything that you can think of as a single item, for example an idea, an action, a feeling, or a fact: The important thing is for us to tell the truth. | What a stupid thing to do. | A horrible thing… …

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  • 5one — [ wʌn ] function word *** One can be used in the following ways: as a number: We have only one child. How much does one pound of apples cost? as a determiner: He grew roses on one side of his garden, and vegetables on the other. We ll meet again… …

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  • 6What We Talk About When We Talk About Love — is the name of both a collection of short stories and the name of a story from this collection by American writer Raymond Carver.Storylines from several of the stories appear in Robert Altman s film Short Cuts . The Short Story The story itself… …

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  • 7one — 1 /wVn/ number 1 the number one: one hundred and twenty one pounds ( 121) | The answer is on page forty one. | Can I have one coffee and two milkshakes please? 2 one or two a small number of people or things: There are one or two things to sort… …

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  • 8One Tree Hill (TV series) — One Tree Hill Intertitle, seasons 1–4; 8 Genre Drama, Sports Format Teen drama …

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  • 9Oggy and the Cockroaches — Title Format Animated Comedy Created by Jean Yves Raimbaud Terry Klassen Country of orig …

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  • 10this and that — noun 1. : one thing and another weighing this and that New Yorker 2. : a number of heterogeneous or pertinent things filling with cheese and a little chopped this and that Anne Parrish * * * this and that or this, that and …

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