There are concepts that are used very frequently and are easy to understand, although their definition is not so simple. An example of this type of terms is something , which has its etymological origin in the Latin language.
The first definition mentioned by the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) refers to what has an entity , regardless of whether it is something artificial, natural, abstract or concrete.
In general, the idea of thing refers to something inanimate, lacking life . Objects, in this sense, are things: furniture, cars, electronic devices, houses, etc. On the contrary, people, animals, plants and the rest of living beings are not.
While by definition we should not include living beings in the set of things, it is possible to qualify someone in this way to express displeasure with respect to their way of being their physical appearance. This is used in everyday speech, in informal conversations or discussions, and is considered an insult: «What does this thing here?! Tell him to leave immediately! " , "I can't believe that you have left me to go out with that thing."
It is also called a matter or a matter . For example: "I'm not going to be able to play football tonight, I have to solve some things in my house" , "I am with many work things, I will call you later" , "there is one thing that worries me and I would like Talk to you. ”
In the field of law , one thing is an object of a legal relationship whose subject is one or more people. Obligations, rights and goods are things at the legal level.
A man can be the holder of the right of ownership of a thing, such as a motorcycle or an apartment (apartment). You can distinguish between movable things, real estate things, trading things, non -tradable things, fungible things and non -fungible things, among other types.
Let's look at some expressions that include this word:
* Brava Thing : It is used to ironically describe something that makes no sense, that is not reasonable;
* Entity thing : something valuable , considerable, of substance;
* Thing of seeing, or hearing : something worthy of being seen or heard, which attracts attention;
* Thing of the other Thursday : It is used in a negative sense to qualify an unusual fact. Similarly, it serves to talk about something that happened a long time ago;
* Hard thing : something impossible to tolerate;
* Thing in itself : in the field of philosophy, it means a hypothetical reality that is independent of what human knowledge can imagine;
* Thus judged : something that is considered resolved and that it is not possible to discuss. In the field of law, it is said of an object that, after a firm judicial resolution, cannot be re -treated through a new process.
“The Thing” , on the other hand, is the title by which “The Thing” was known in Spain , a film directed by John Carpenter that was released in 1982 .
In the Latin American version of the series The Addams Family , known in that region as Los locos Addams , the character Cousin Itt is called Tío Cosa (in Spain, for his part, he was called Primo Eso ). This memorable television series, which also had a film version, was created by the American cartoonist Charles Samuel Addams ; However, the character Uncle Thing was the idea of the show's producer, David Levy .
The Thing o The Mole, por último, es el nombre que el personaje The Thing de Marvel Comics lleva en nuestro language.