Thing vs assize

Thing

noun
  • Nickname or appellative for numerous "things", including fictional characters. 

  • A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country. 

  • Nickname for the Volkswagen 181. 

assize

noun
  • A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures. 

  • The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors. 

  • Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc. 

  • A session or inquiry made before a court or jury. 

  • An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. 

verb
  • To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price. 

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