释义
[ ev -ree-thing ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈɛv riˌθɪŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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pronoun every single thing or every particular of an aggregate or total; all.
something extremely important: This news means everything to us.
noun something that is extremely or most important: Money is his everything.
Origin of everything Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at every, thing1
Words nearby everything everyone, every other, everyplace, every single one, every so often, everything , everything but the kitchen sink, every time one turns around, every Tom, Dick, and Harry, everyway, everywhen
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Example sentences from the Web for everything And so he looked at her, smiled, and offered a polite “Is everything okay?”
Powerful Congressman Writes About ‘Fleshy Breasts’ | Asawin Suebsaeng| January 7, 2015| DAILY BEAST
Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.
How a ‘Real Housewife’ Survives Prison: ‘I Don’t See [Teresa Giudice] Having a Cakewalk Here’ | Michael Howard| January 6, 2015| DAILY BEAST
But since that explosion of popularity, Angry Birds has become about everything else.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art | Alec Kubas-Meyer| January 2, 2015| DAILY BEAST
Everything turned around and we pulled it together, got our act together for the big ten.
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The reality TV mogul bared her butt—and everything else, too—for Paper Magazine in a spread that sent Twitter into a tizzy.
Kim Kardashian Cheekily Breaks the Internet | Kevin O’Keeffe| December 29, 2014| DAILY BEAST
And yet, as we all of us felt, everything now depended on Tempest.
Tom, Dick and Harry | Talbot Baines Reed
Everything that he did was with a view to her comfort and happiness.
Unfettered | Sutton E. Griggs
He is magnificent--a saint--a scholar--everything --but not nice!
Lady Merton, Colonist | Mrs. Humphry Ward
In a word, my love, however little it might reach her heart, was everything to mine.
Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) | Charles Lever
Like everything else in the Congo, this town has been arranged and built for practical use.
A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State | Marcus Dorman
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British Dictionary definitions for everything pronoun the entirety of a specified or implied class she lost everything in the War
a great deal, esp of something very important she means everything to me
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Idioms and Phrases with everything In addition to the idiom beginning with everything
everything but the kitchen sink SEE MORE ORIGINS SEE FEWER ORIGINS
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Words related to everything all, business, lot, aggregate, complex, sum, total, universe, whole, all in all, all that, lock stock and barrel, the works, whole ball of wax, whole enchilada, whole shebang