[Publib] "what is the word for..?" stumper

[Fred Beisser]

Pick from these:

> Synonym Collection v1.1
> *Main Entry:* 	being
> *Part of Speech:* 	/noun/
> *Synonyms:* 	actuality 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/actuality>, angel 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/angel>, animal 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/animal>, animalcule, beast 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/beast>, because 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/because>, bios, creation 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/creation>, creature 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/creature>, ens, entity 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/entity>, esse, essence 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/essence>, existence 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/existence>, existent 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/existent>, flesh 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/flesh>, human 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/human>, individual 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/individual>, life 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/life>, living 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/living>, man 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/man>, mankind 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/mankind>, matter 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/matter>, men, mortal 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/mortal>, nature 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/nature>, one 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/one>, ontology, organism 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/organism>, person 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/person>, present 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/present>, reality 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/reality>, self 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/self>, soul 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/soul>, spirit 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/spirit>, standing 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/standing>, subsistence 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/subsistence>, supreme 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/supreme>, thing 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/thing>, nonentity., 
> nonexistence <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/nonexistence>
>
> Synonym Collection v1.1
> Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

> Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
> *Main Entry:* 	thing
> *Part of Speech:* 	/noun/
> *Definition:* 	One that exists independently.
> *Synonyms:* 	being, entity, existence, existent, individual, object, 
> something
>
> Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
> by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
> Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
> Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights 
> reserved.
> Synonym Collection v1.1
> *Main Entry:* 	thing
> *Part of Speech:* 	/noun/
> *Synonyms:* 	act <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/act>, action 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/action>, affair 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/affair>, apparatus 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/apparatus>, article 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/article>, circumstance 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/circumstance>, concern 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/concern>, contrivance 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/contrivance>, craze 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/craze>, creature 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/creature>, deed 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/deed>, detail 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/detail>, device 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/device>, doing 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/doing>, doohickey 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/doohickey>, element 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/element>, entity 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/entity>, event 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/event>, fad 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/fad>, fashion 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/fashion>, feat 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/feat>, feature 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/feature>, forte 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/forte>, gadget 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/gadget>, gizmo 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/gizmo>, happening 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/happening>, idea 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/idea>, incident 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/incident>, item 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/item>, junk 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/junk>, matter 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/matter>, notion 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/notion>, noumenon, object 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/object>, occurrence 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/occurrence>, oddity 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/oddity>, phenomenon 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/phenomenon>, point 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/point>, property 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/property>, quality 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/quality>, rage 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/rage>, reason 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/reason>, referent, res gestae, 
> shape <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/shape>, stunt 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/stunt>, style 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/style>, trait 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/trait>, vogue 
> <http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/vogue>
>
> Synonym Collection v1.1
> Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
Hope they help.

Fred Beisser
Trustee
www.elbertcountylibrary.org
(Colorado)


Tom Cipullo wrote:
> here is the question: "What is a word that describes a thing, a state of being as a thing?"
>  
> this was over the phone; the best I could get is that there is a term (not a literary term) for when you use a state of being to describe a thing.  (he used the word "thing" a few times.)  He did not have an example, or he did, but he took it back: "human," when he realized that wasn't what he meant.  
>  
> he didn't like "eponymous" (which is the name a person to describe a thing).  maybe it's a grammatical term?
>  
> so "what do you call it when a term for a state of being is used to describe a thing?" 
>  
>  
> (sorry. if I knew of another place to post this I would. I'm just curious to know if someone knows this.)
>  
>  
> tom cipullo
> Palm Beach County Library System, Main Library
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