somethingpron/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/

• 1

  An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.

  • I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what.
  • I have something for you in my bag.
• 2

  A quality to a moderate degree.

  • The performance was something of a disappointment.
  • That child is something of a genius.
• 3

  A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.

  • She has a certain something.
• 4

  Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.

  • He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.
  • She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.

somethingadj/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/

• 1

  Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.

  • She was so something that she cried all the way home.
  • "Very poetic." They came to a halt before the outer door. "It's very something," Rusty said wistfully. "How do you do it?"

somethingadv/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/

• 1

  Somewhat; to a degree.

  • The baby looks something like his father.
  • Angelo. Yet giue leaue (my Lord,) That we may bring you something on the way
• 2

  Used to adverbialise a following adjective

  • I miss them something terrible/rotten. (I miss them terribly)
  • You can't thrash when you have rheumatic fever – though you want to something awful, Mrs. White says.

somethingverb/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/

• 1

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

  • 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140439234&id=IOZeJi7U4eEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&sig=LW2P-uKmoZabe70ZKnIHIMQLXlw He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said.
  • 2003, George Angel, “Allegoady,” in Juncture, Lara Stapleton and Veronica Gonzalez edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1887128913&id=qB-D32yV1VAC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&sig=9AYyYLA-MQqTgAbptreoe3VyOzQ She hovers over the something somethinging and awkwardly lowers her bulk.

somethingnoun/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/

• 1

  An object whose nature is yet to be defined.

  • Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light of a lamp lit somewhere within.
  • From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
• 2

  An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).

  • What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for?
  • 2004, Theron Q Dumont, The Master Mind http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0766185435&id=-n_jW7BVfawC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=ou-CrIyWbKyZQ0s3q0uaJTiHdsI Moreover, in all of our experience with these sense impressions, we never lose sight of the fact that they are but incidental facts of our mental existence, and that there is a Something Within which is really the Subject of these sense reports—a Something to which these reports are presented, and which receives them.