Thing vs Chap - What's the difference?
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That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
An individual object or distinct entity.
(informal) Something that is normal or generally recognised.
(legal) Whatever can be owned.
The latest fad or fashion.
(in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
(informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
(informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
(slang) A penis.
* 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009),
A living being or creature.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= That which matters; the crux.
* 1914 , Eugene Gladstone O'Neill,
(chiefly, historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
* 1974 , Jón Jóhannesson, A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Íslendinga Saga , translated by Haraldur Bessason, page 46:
* 1974', Jakob Benediktsson, ''Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis'', in ''Saga Íslands'', quoted in '''1988 by Jesse L. Byock in ''Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power , page 85:
* 1988 , Jesse L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power , page 59:
(dated, outside, UK, and, Australia) A man, a fellow.
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, title= *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
* Steele
(Southern US) A child.
Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
* Blackmore
* Lyly
(Scotland, northern England) To strike, knock.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 35:
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
* T. Fuller
(Scotland) A blow; a rap.
(archaic) The jaw (often in plural).
*1610 , , by Shakespeare
* Cowley
* Shakespeare
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
Thing is a related term of chap.
As nouns the difference between thing and chap
is that thing is (chiefly|historical) a public assembly or judicial council in a germanic country while chap is (dated|outside|uk|and|australia) a man, a fellow or chap can be a cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin or chap can be (archaic) the jaw (often in plural).As a verb chap is
of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.thing
English
Noun
(en noun)The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […], "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.}}
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- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing .”
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
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- Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing . (in reference to the execution of Fernandez)
- In accordance with Old Germanic custom men came to the thing fully armed, [...]
- The goðar'' seem both to have received payment of ''thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing , and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
- All Icelandic things were skap-thing , meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places.
Quotations
* 1611 — (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...Synonyms
* stuff (uncountable equivalent) * item * yoke (Ireland)Derived terms
* anything * bright young thing * everything * here's the thing * nothing * see things * something * sweet young thing * swing of things * the thing is * thingal * thingamajig * thinger * thinghood * thingly * thingness * thingo * thingy *External links
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English
Etymology 1
Shortened from in 16th century English.Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap .’}}
- If you want to sell, here is your chap .
Usage notes
This word's existence in the US can be seen in the Pennsylvania German term .Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* chappie * chappoEtymology 2
Related to chip .Verb
(chapp)- Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
- Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
- The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look [...].
Derived terms
* chapped * chapstickNoun
(en noun)- Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
Derived terms
* chappyEtymology 3
From Northern English .Noun
(en noun)- This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
- His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
- He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps .