The difference between Sucker and Thing

When used as nouns, sucker means a person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder, whereas thing means that which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.

When used as verbs, sucker means to strip the suckers or shoots from, whereas thing means to express as a thing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Sucker and Thing

  1. Sucker as a noun:

    A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

  2. Sucker as a noun (horticulture):

    An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.

  3. Sucker as a noun:

    A parasite; a sponger.

  4. Sucker as a noun:

    An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.

  5. Sucker as a noun:

    A thing that works by sucking something.

  6. Sucker as a noun:

    The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

  7. Sucker as a noun:

    A pipe through which anything is drawn.

  8. Sucker as a noun:

    A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

  9. Sucker as a noun (British, colloquial):

    A suction cup.

  10. Sucker as a noun:

    An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

  11. Sucker as a noun:

    Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments

  12. Sucker as a noun (American, informal):

    A piece of candy which is sucked ; a lollipop

  13. Sucker as a noun (slang, archaic):

    A hard drinker; a soaker.

  14. Sucker as a noun (American, obsolete):

    An inhabitant of Illinois.

  15. Sucker as a noun (American, slang):

    A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person

    Examples:

    "usex One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings."

  16. Sucker as a noun:

    A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

    Examples:

    "usex A sucker for ghost stories."

  17. Sucker as a noun (obsolete, vulgar, British slang):

    The penis.

  1. Sucker as a verb (horticulture, transitive):

    To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

    Examples:

    "to sucker maize"

  2. Sucker as a verb (horticulture, intransitive):

    To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.

  3. Sucker as a verb (transitive):

    To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

    Examples:

    "The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract."

  1. Sucker as a noun (slang):

    A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".

  2. Sucker as a noun (informal):

    Generalized term of reference to a person.

    Examples:

    "See if you can get that sucker working again."

  1. Thing as a noun:

    That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.

  2. Thing as a noun:

    A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.

  3. Thing as a noun:

    An individual object or distinct entity.

  4. Thing as a noun (informal):

    Something that is existent or generally recognised.

    Examples:

    "Bacon pie? Is that a thing?"

  5. Thing as a noun (legal):

    Whatever can be owned. Corporeal object.

  6. Thing as a noun (somewhat, _, dated):

    The latest fad or fashion.

    Examples:

    "What do you mean you don't twerk, Stacy? It's the latest thing!"

  7. Thing as a noun (in the plural):

    Clothes, possessions or equipment.

    Examples:

    "Hold on, let me just grab my things."

  8. Thing as a noun (informal):

    A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.

    Examples:

    "get me a thing of apple juice at the store; I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans"

  9. Thing as a noun (informal):

    A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.

    Examples:

    "The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety."

  10. Thing as a noun (slang):

    A penis.

  11. Thing as a noun:

    A living being or creature.

    Examples:

    "you poor thing; she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place; I met a pretty blond thing at the bar"

  12. Thing as a noun:

    That which matters; the crux.

    Examples:

    "that's the thing: we don't know where he went; the thing is, I don't have any money"

  13. Thing as a noun:

    Examples:

    "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing."

  14. Thing as a noun (informal):

    That which is favoured; personal preference. ()

  15. Thing as a noun (chiefly, historical):

    A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.

  1. Thing as a verb (rare):

    To express as a thing; to reify.

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