1. thing, matter
2. incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis
3. circumstances, situation, state of affairs
4. work, business, affair
5. after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not ...
1. indicates word or phrase being defined
2. used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
3. with
4. (not) as much as, (not) so much as
5. the fact that, to think that, such a thing as