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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
something
pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
... or anything/somethingspoken (= or something of the same kind)
▪ Would you like a coffee or something?
▪ She wasn’t involved in drugs or anything like that.
a little somethinginformal (= a small present, or a small amount of food)
▪ I’d like to buy him a little something to thank him.
an explosion of interest in something
▪ There has been an explosion of interest in networking websites in the last few years.
anything/nothing/something particular
▪ I had nothing particular planned.
anything/something/nothing special
▪ Are you doing anything special for Christmas?
be something of a gamble (=involve an amount of risk)
▪ A few years ago, launching a weekly magazine for men would have been something of a gamble.
be something of a novelty (=seem quite new and different)
▪ At that time, cars were still something of a novelty.
be something of an obsession (=be almost as strong as an obsession)
▪ The case became something of an obsession with him.
do something/nothing/anything
▪ He lay on the sofa and did nothing all day.
(do) you know what/something?
▪ You know what? I think he’s lonely.
find something to eat
▪ I got dressed and went downstairs to find something to eat.
get something to eat (=prepare or buy some food)
▪ I’m sure you can get something to eat on the train.
had something on...mind
▪ He looked as though he had something on his mind.
have something/anything/nothing to say
▪ He usually has something to say about just about everything.
have something/nothing to eat (=eat something/nothing)
▪ We’ll leave after we’ve had something to eat.
It’s come to something when
It’s come to something when I’m not allowed to express an opinion in my own house!
It’s quite something
It’s quite something to walk out on stage in front of 20,000 people.
mean something to
▪ You need to use analogies which will mean something to the reader.
meant something
▪ Of course the relationship meant something to me.
say something/anything/nothing
▪ I was about to say something to him when he looked up and smiled.
something along those lines
▪ They’re trying to organize a trip to the beach or something along those lines.
something funny going on
▪ There’s something funny going on here.
something strange about
▪ She felt there was something strange about Dexter’s voice.
something to drink
▪ Take a seat while I get you something to drink.
something unintelligible
▪ Eva muttered something unintelligible.
something unusual
▪ We want to know if anyone saw something unusual last night.
something/anything/nothing suspicious
▪ Call the police if you see anything suspicious.
something/nothing is wrong
▪ It was four whole days before anyone even noticed something was wrong.
something/nothing/anything happens
▪ Something terrible has happened.
▪ She carried on as if nothing had happened.
something/nothing/everything goes wrong
▪ If something goes wrong with your machine, you can take it back to the dealer.
Something...snapped
Something inside him snapped, and he hit her.
suspect something/nothing/anything
▪ He never suspected anything.
there is something/nothing sinister about sb/sth
▪ There was something sinister about Mr Scott’s death.
there is something/nothing wrong
▪ There’s something wrong with this yogurt.
There’s something...about
There’s something really strange about Liza.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(something) in the neighbourhood of £500/30% etc
I'll tell you something/one thing/another thing
▪ Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
a lot/something/not much etc to be said for (doing) sth
do something about sth
▪ And the second view shows a marked advantage when we begin to do something about behavior.
▪ For those who are reluctant, understand why and do something about it.
▪ I'd better do something about improving it.
▪ I keep thinking I should do something about this place but there's never any time.
▪ If the result is none too pleasant, it's time to do something about it.
▪ We've got to do something about the bomb before we start.
▪ We better do something about this deficiency right now.
▪ Whenever Gandhi felt distressed or disturbed he wanted to do something about it.
get something off your chest
▪ People are able to get things off their chest in these meetings.
have something to say about sth
▪ You'd better tell your dad about the dent in the car - I'm sure he'll have something to say about it.
▪ However, Trevor Francis' Birmingham will have something to say about that.
▪ I shall have something to say about original boards a little later.
▪ Jen looked at me as if I ought to have something to say about this.
▪ Jerome would have something to say about that...
▪ Mind you, Sunderland, of course, could have something to say about that at Hillsborough tomorrow afternoon.
▪ Rodman would have something to say about juvenile fantasies of self-reliance if I told him that one.
have something up your sleeve
▪ Don't worry. He still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
it won't/wouldn't kill sb (to do something)
▪ It wouldn't kill you to do the dishes.
keep/put something on ice
lose something in the translation/telling
▪ It probably loses something in the translation from the original Latin.
not have the heart to do something
▪ I didn't have the heart to tell my daughter we couldn't keep the puppy.
prove yourself/prove something (to sb)
quite something
▪ It is quite something to discover giant tubeworms clustered around warm water flowing from the seafloor.
▪ Matthau, who has died aged 79, was quite something.
▪ Putting some one's shoulder back into place standing on a six inch ledge is quite something.
▪ Then he said: This is quite something.
▪ To most of us, however, nothing is more obvious than that the universe really is quite something.
▪ Would have been quite something if they'd brought him back.
something fierce
▪ It rained something fierce during our trip.
something is up
▪ As I walk through the hotel lobby in Manila I know that something is up.
▪ The first he knows that something is up is when he hears a great cry of anguish from the town.
▪ They stopped talking to him, which is always a hint that something is up.
▪ Vik senses something is up and confronts Karen, who tells him Steve tried it on with her.
something like
▪ In the USA something like 4000 such accidents occur each year.
▪ Smith is already something like $10,000 in debt.
▪ The project will take us something like three weeks.
▪ And it goes something like this.
▪ And it stands a better chance than most of lasting for something like a full five-year term.
▪ It must have been something like that.
▪ There was another example of something like this at one point a little earlier in the year.
▪ They got an unreal turnover, something like seventy-five million a year.
▪ We can tell Mr Goodwin to patrol the grounds in case he is dumped, tied up, or something like that.
▪ Well, something like the churning of the Nile River, which keeps on recreating the fertile farmlands at her delta.
▪ You grow up idealizing something like law.
something of the/that kind
▪ Certainly Hannah Mitchell wished something of the kind had existed to give her advice on childrearing.
▪ I still had five, and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen.
▪ Rosa felt such shock, although she told herself she should have expected something of the kind.
▪ The news provoked among Zuwaya an instant recognition of necessary truth: they had always suspected something of the kind.
▪ When something of that kind comes on to the market it creates a storm.
something/anything/what happens to sb/sth
▪ Actually, no matter what happens to the business cycle, people will continue to eat and to get sick.
▪ Do all the fish die and what happens to the occupants of metal-hulled boats?
▪ If anything happens to me, just bury me at Wounded Knee.
▪ Suppose Holt's 6-year-old does opt out of school? What happens to her then?
▪ Tell the students to hold the jars and look at the items through them. What happens to the items?
▪ The power is cut! What happens to the cake?
▪ We thought of having a party on that day to watch what happens to one another.
▪ What are the determinants of supply? What happens to the supply curve when each of these determinants changes?
something/someone/somewhere etc or other
▪ Almost all our citizens are indicted for something or other.
▪ Calls himself Jack something or other.
▪ He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other.
▪ Iris is off somewhere or other for the next few days.
▪ It was decided by someone or other that we would stay out at Lima with the grunts.
▪ Later on, we were on another job, looking after a defence minister from somewhere or other.
▪ Nineteen fifty something or other convertible.
▪ Somebody else got a chocolate something or other.
start something/anything
▪ If you start something in there, don't expect me to back you up.
▪ I figured I must be the only fool who was trying to start something.
▪ I myself had started something of a relationship with her just now.
▪ I think we have to be autocratic about officers, at first, in order to start something.
▪ In fact, I was thinking I might try and start something along those lines as soon as I can.
▪ It's, well, enough to get by on, but not much more, not enough to start something.
▪ The standard affair, nowadays, will start something like this.
▪ Those involved were told that they should have consulted the senior branch before starting anything like that.
▪ When I brought you that painting, it started something.
take to something like a duck to water
▪ She's taken to her new position like a duck to water.
the horror of something
what's the matter?/something's the matter/nothing's the matter etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Come here - I want to show you something.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Something

Something \Some"thing\, adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
--Shak.

I something fear my father's wrath.
--Shak.

We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly.
--Burke.

My sense of touch is something coarse.
--Tennyson.

It must be done to-night, And something from the palace.
--Shak.

Something

Something \Some"thing\, n.

  1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.

    There is something in the wind.
    --Shak.

    The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about.
    --Pope.

    Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
    --Longfellow.

  2. A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.

    Something yet of doubt remains.
    --Milton.

    Something of it arises from our infant state.
    --I. Watts.

  3. A person or thing importance.

    If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
    --Gal. vi. 3.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
something

Old English sum þinge; see some + thing. Hyphenated from c.1300; one word from 17c. Formerly common as an adverb (as in something like). Meaning "some liquor, food, etc." is from 1570s. Meaning "a thing worthy of consideration" is from 1580s; emphatic form something else is from 1909. Phrase something for nothing is from 1816. To make something of is from 1778.

Wiktionary
something
  1. Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify. adv. (context degree English) somewhat; to a degree. n. An object whose nature is yet to be defined. pron. An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing. v

  2. Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.

WordNet
something

n. a thing of some kind; "is there something you want?"

Wikipedia
Something (Beatles song)

"Something" is a song by the Beatles, written by George Harrison and released on the band's 1969 album Abbey Road. It was also issued on a double A-sided single with another track from the album, " Come Together". "Something" was the first Harrison composition to appear as a Beatles A-side, and the only song written by him to top the US charts before the band's break-up in April 1970. The single was also one of the first Beatles singles to contain tracks already available on an LP album.

The song drew high praise from the band's primary songwriters, John Lennon and Paul McCartney; Lennon stated that "Something" was the best song on Abbey Road, while McCartney considered it the best song Harrison had written. As well as critical acclaim, the single achieved commercial success, topping the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and making the top five in the United Kingdom. The song has been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most covered Beatles song after " Yesterday". Artists who have covered the song include Phish, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, James Brown, Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Smokey Robinson, Ike & Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Isaac Hayes, Julio Iglesias and Neil Diamond. Harrison said his favourite version of the song was James Brown's, which he kept in his personal jukebox.

Something

Something may refer to:

Something (Shirley Bassey album)

Something is a 1970 album by Shirley Bassey. With her career having been in decline since the latter part of the mid 1960s, Something proved to be Shirley Bassey's comeback when it was released in August 1970. The title track single became her biggest UK hit for many years, reaching No.4 and spending 22 weeks on the chart. This was actually the second single featured on the album, "The Sea and Sand" having already been released earlier. The album was similarly her biggest hit for many years in the album charts, reaching No.5 and spending 28 weeks in the top 50.

This album led to a major revival in Bassey's career, and it would see Bassey transform into mainly an album artist, recording fifteen albums in the 1970s (four of those live recordings). Of those three would be top ten albums, three others in the top fifteen, and a further four in the top 40. She would also reach the top three twice, with a pair of compilations. This was also her first work with record producer Noel Rogers and producer/arranger Johnny Harris, who built on Bassey's traditional pop roots to include contemporary songs and arrangements.

The album's original release was in stereo on vinyl and cassette. This was the first Shirley Bassey studio album not to be issued in mono. The album was released in the US as Shirley Bassey is Really "Something" and featured different artwork and cover photograph. EMI re-issued the album on CD in 2002 with a bonus track, "Fool On The Hill", which was a single release from 1971.

Something (Shirley Scott album)

Something is an album by organist Shirley Scott recorded in 1970 and released on the Atlantic label. It includes instrumental covers of several contemporary hits from artists such as the Beatles and the Jackson 5, along with the original song "Messie Bessie".

Something (Andrius Pojavis song)

"Something" is a song by Lithuanian singer Andrius Pojavis. The song was chosen on 20 December 2012, from the Lithuanian national selection, the song competed against six other songs, receiving 12 points from the jury, and 8 points from the public vote; coming in joint first place and advancing to the super-final with two other songs, where the song came first, and thus represent Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. The song made it into the top ten from Semi Final 1 so proceeded to compete in the Grand Final, where it finished 21st with 17 points.

Something (Lasgo song)

"Something" is the debut single by Belgian dance music group Lasgo. It was released in May 2000 as the lead single from their debut album Some Things.

In Spain, where the track was released simultaneously, the single was the best selling vinyl at the distributor the week it was released. In October 2000, "Something" peaked at number 8 in the Dutch charts, while in Germany they entered the charts at number 11. On February 25, 2002, Positiva Records released "Something" in the United Kingdom. It was also successful there; it entered and peaked at number 4 in the UK Singles Chart. "Something" also peaked at number 19 in Australia. They got A-rotation on BBC Radio 1 and performed on Nickelodeon, Popworld, and Top of the Pops. In the United States the song peaked at 35, and was the only Lasgo's song to enter on the US Main Chart, besides Alone, which peaked at 83.

On March 20, 2013, the song was re-released with new vocals from Jelle instead of Evi. The remade song also features vocals from British pop singer Taylor Jones.

Something (Chairlift album)

Something is the second full-length album by American indie band Chairlift, released in the United States via Columbia Records on January 24, 2012, and in the United Kingdom via Young Turks on January 23, 2012. The first album since founding member Aaron Pfenning left the band in 2010, Something features production from Dan Carey and Alan Moulder. The first single, "Amanaemonesia", was released as a 7" on August 16, 2011 via Terrible Records. In March, 2012, an interactive video for "Met Before" was released. The video, directed by Jordan Fish, allows the viewer to determine the direction the main character takes.

Something (TVXQ song)

"Something" is a song by South Korean pop duo TVXQ, also known as Tohoshinki in Japan. Serving as the lead single for their seventh Korean studio album Tense (2014), the song was produced by TVXQ's long-time collaborator Yoo Young-jin and co-written by Yoo with his brother Yoo Han-jin. Introduced as TVXQ's tenth anniversary comeback single, "Something" was released by S.M. Entertainment on January 6, 2014. Two versions of the song exist; the original Korean-language version, and a Japanese-language version, which was released by Avex Trax as a double A-sided CD single, along with " Hide & Seek", in Japan on February 5, 2014. It served as the fourth and final single release for the duo's seventh Japanese studio album, Tree (2014). Within a week of its release, the single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of over 100,000.

Noted for being a major musical departure from TVXQ's earlier songs, "Something" is a song that incorporates swing performance styles with modern dance-pop. The song deals with a narcissistic male protagonist who tells women that they need to have "that something" in order to attract him. The accompanying music video, filmed in early December 2013, premiered on January 1, 2014 at 6pm KST.

Something (concept)

Something and anything are concepts of existence in ontology, contrasting with the concept of nothing. Both are used to describe the understanding that what exists is not nothing without needing to address the existence of everything. The philosopher David Lewis has pointed out that these are necessarily vague terms, asserting that "ontological assertions of common sense are correct if the quantifiers—such words as "something" and "anything"—are restricted roughly to ordinary or familiar things".

The idea that "something" is the opposite of "nothing" has existed at least since it was proposed by the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry in the 3rd century. One of the most basic questions of both science and philosophy is: why is there something rather than nothing at all? A question that follows from this is whether it is ever actually possible for there to be nothing at all, or whether there must always be something.

Grammatically, "something and anything are commonly classified as pronouns, although they do not stand for another noun so clearly as does thing itself, a word always classified as a noun".

Usage examples of "something".

The ability to sense pain and discomfort in others, Will realized, was something he had always had and assumed others did as well.

This came as something of a relief to his crew, who hated to be aboard without him present.

Quite the contrary, proper discipline had to be maintained, and in wartime, with pressed men aboard ship, a firm hand was something he deemed a necessity.

Not knowing exactly what excuse to make, but hoping for something to turn up, the mullah took a lantern and followed him out, taking the lead as they passed through the gap in the fence and drew abreast of the mosque portico.

Jen had expected something in the Central Business District, or CBD to the Australians who seemed to her to have a mania for shortening or abreviating everything.

And this is the Absolute Ugly: an ugly thing is something that has not been entirely mastered by pattern, that is by Reason, the Matter not yielding at all points and in all respects to Ideal-Form.

As there is Good, the Absolute, as well as Good, the quality, so, together with the derived evil entering into something not itself, there must be the Absolute Evil.

Now it is evident that in Penance something is done so that something holy is signified both on the part of the penitent sinner, and on the part of the priest absolving, because the penitent sinner, by deed and word, shows his heart to have renounced sin, and in like manner the priest, by his deed and word with regard to the penitent, signifies the work of God Who forgives his sins.

Tlazitlan, something abysmal and monstrous that contrasted unfavorably with the clean-cut, compact hardness of the Cimmerian.

Indeed it is not in the public interest that straightforwardness should be extirpated root and branch, for the presence of a small modicum of sincerity acts as a wholesome irritant to the academicism of the greatest number, stimulating it to consciousness of its own happy state, and giving it something to look down upon.

These patterns are abstracted for the most part from leaves and flowers - the rose, the lotus, the acanthus, palm, papyrus - and are elaborated, with recurrences and variations, into something transportingly reminiscent of the living geometries of the Other World.

As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.

The braziers began giving off a thick, resinous, overly sweet smoke with something astringent to it but I had no way of knowing if it was, in fact, the perfume the grimoire had specified for operations ruled by the planet Mercury: a mixture of mastic, frankincense, cinquefoil, achates, and the dried and powdered brains of a fox.

America was the notion that the moderns had achieved something that had not been achieved by antiquity.

It was something Granny Aching had said once, when Tiffany had been crying about a lamb.