9.1.3 Thing

Use this domain for general words referring to things.

  • What general words refer to a thing?
    thing, something, article, artifact, entity, item, object, wares,
  • What words refer to a group of things of different types?
    things, oddments, paraphernalia, stuff, odds and ends, bits and pieces, knick-knacks,
  • What words are used to refer to something when you can't remember what it is called?
    what's its name, thingy, thingamajig, whatchamacallit, whatsit, such and such
  • What words are used to end a list of things to indicate that there are more things in the list?
    et cetera, etc., and what not, and so forth, and the like, and on and on, ... [ellipsis]

    • 9.1.3.1 Physical, non-physical

    Use this domain for words describing something that is physical--that you can touch and see, and for words describing something that is non-physical--that you cannot touch or see.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    79A Physical, Spiritual
    79B Natural, Spiritual
  • What words describe something that is physical?
    animal nature, biological, bodily, concrete, corporal, corporeal, earthly, earthy, fleshly, incarnate, inferior, matter, material, materialistic, mundane, natural, objective, physical, seen, sensible, sensual, tangible, temporal, unspiritual, worldly
  • What words refer to something that is physical?
    substance, stuff, matter, material
  • What words describe something that is non-physical?
    disembodied, extramundane, extrasensory, immaterial, impalpable, incorporeal, instinctive, intangible, intellectual, libidinal, life, mental, metaphysical, nonphysical, nonmaterial, numinous, otherworldly, preternatural, psychic, psychological, rational, reasoning, spiritual, spiritualist, subjective, supernatural, transcendent, transcendental, unbodied, unearthly, unseen, unworldly,
  • What words refer to something that is non-physical?
    spirit

    • 9.1.3.2 Situation

    Use this domain for words referring to a situation--a particular time and place, and the things that are true about it.

  • What words refer to the general situation that exists in a place?
    situation, things, conditions, state of affairs, set-up, context,
  • What words refer to a situation that affects what can happen or what people can do?
    situation, circumstances, environment, climate, conditions, the lay of the land, which way the wind blows, scenario,
  • What words refer to a situation that exists at some time during a larger event or process?
    situation, position, state of play,
  • What words refer to the true situation rather than the situation that people think exists?
    the picture, the score, what's going on,
  • What words refer to the situation a person is in?
    situation, circumstances, position, case, plight,
  • What words indicate that something must happen or cannot happen because of the situation?
    under the circumstances, in the circumstances, given the circumstances, given the situation, as it is, as things stand, force of circumstances, the way things are,