to tie; confine

thing (concrete, tangible) / (law) a corporeal object

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

two things [small or without a counter category]

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

use one thing for many purposes / work someone hard

to use one's head

story, genre (type of story)