everything
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛvɹiθɪŋ/
Forms: form: e'rythin'
form: e'rythang
form: e'rything
form: ev'ryting
form: ev'rythang
form: ev'ythang
form: ev'rything
form: ev'ythin'
form: ev'ything
form: eve'ything
form: errythin
form: everytin'
form: everyting
form: everytang
form: every thing
form: evrything
form: evrythin
Etymology: From Middle English every thing; univerbation of every + thing.
Senses: examples: text: I checked the list again and everything is done.
text: Thank you for everything you've done for us.
text: I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: All the things under discussion.
examples: text: A: What do you want to do at the amusement park?
B: Everything!
text: I did everything today – washed the dishes, cut the lawn, did the laundry.
text: Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough; […]
ref: 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Ghost in Master B’s Room”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 30, column 2:
glosses: Many or most things.
examples: text: Everything failed, didn't it?
text: She wasn't feeling well this morning but now everything is fine.
text: Since the company lost its best customer everything has gotten worse.
glosses: A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
examples: text: It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
glosses: Considerable effort.
examples: text: I can't believe I made it in time – timing is everything!
glosses: The most important thing.
Synonyms: all
Derived terms: all-everything
and everything
antieverything
call someone everything but a child of God
carry everything before one
chips-with-everything
chips with everything
everything and the kitchen sink
everything bagel
everything but the galley stove
everything but the kitchen sink
everything happens for a reason
everything including the kitchen sink
everything in the garden is lovely
everything in the garden is rosy
everything is everything
everything is fair in love and war
everything is rosy in the garden
everythingness
everything old is new again
everything one touches turns to gold
everything one touches turns to shit
everything under the sun
how's everything
if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
know everything
know-everything
leave everything on the road
mean everything to
my everything
now I've heard everything
now I've seen everything
posteverything
sugar and spice and everything nice
talk everything
theory of everything
there is a time and place for everything
timing is everything
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