An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
Used in a Sentence
something
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for something.
Editorial note
At any point they can yank it away from you, why invest time into learning something like that?
Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech3
Quick take
An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of something gathered in one view.
Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
(colloquial) Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for something.
noun
An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
adjective
Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
verb
(colloquial) Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
noun
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).
Example sentences
At any point they can yank it away from you, why invest time into learning something like that?
But if you cannot turn a profit on 2 billion dollars of revenue, something is very wrong.
It's surprising there isn't some chemical reaction to precipitate out the sodium and chloride atoms bonded to something else, or whatever.
Looking for something interesting and challenging, even if it doesn't match my experience perfectly.
If we tie the price of water to something like rainfall, we'll all be much better off.
Can't we find something a little more natural like capturing more rain water before it goes into the ocean?
It might be on a grant, it might be as a grad student, it might be something else -- just roll with it.
You live by the philosophy that everyone has something to teach you.
More recently focusing on front-end work; having users happy to interact with something I've built is what keeps me motivated.
The trend I'm personally seeing is that I have to spend more and more time going through bullshit posts to find something valuable.
It's like something you would read out of Catch-22.
The total number of blogs for example has gone from around 78 million when the writer was jailed to something of the order of 250 million now.
Quote examples
It is probably a strategy from Google's lawyers to turn that in something against the "liberty".
YC operates like a startup would: they have a bold hypothesis, something that must be challenged ("most science is a slog").
"⌘" is a little tricky to find, since it's named "place of interest marker" or something like that.
Why does someone need to provide citation for expressing their opinion on something that's even so obvious as "I think simple things are easy to teach and understand, etc.".
Proper noun examples
Something like 'the probability of someone mentioning emacs as great operating system in any discussion about text editors = 1'.
Something might last thousand years or a billion, but it's still going to end.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use something in a sentence?
At any point they can yank it away from you, why invest time into learning something like that?
What does something mean?
An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
What part of speech is something?
something is commonly used as noun, adjective, verb.