Objects made by people that aren’t tools and aren’t primarily found in the home.

• Legal and customary food grades, particularly those of the United States, but also standards for cognac, various cheeses, maple syrup, tea, tokay and so forth.
• Traditional and legal sizes of packaging, for example, wine bottles.
• Sizes of objects used for preparing and serving food, such as chopsticks and wine glasses.
• Kitchen measures.
• Inedible personal consumables such as cigars.

Click for the index to food.

This group includes some topics that are important in residences. Entries often cover standard installation dimensions, for example for toilets and lock sets.

• Dimensions of furniture, for example chairs, cribs, tables, mattresses.
• Dimensions of table and bed linens: blankets, sheets, towels and tablecloths.
• Dimensions of kitchen cabinets.
• Dimensions of plumbing, such as toilets.
• Sizing of consumer appliances, such as microwave ovens, air conditioners and water heaters.
• Specifications for automobile-related items, such as tires, trailer hitches and wheels.
• Dimensions of bird houses, aquariums.
• Sizing of standard house parts, such as chimneys.

Go to the homeindex.

• Lumber grades and sizes, including plywood and manufactured lumber.
• Sizing of yarn and fabrics; down.
• Wire and sheet metal gauges.
• Window glass sizes.
• Sizing of shakes, shingles, brick, tile and similar building materials.
• Sizes of pipe and pipe fittings.
• Metal alloys.
• Sizing of electronic components, such as resistors
• Sizes of sheets of paper, envelopes.
• Sizing of corks and stoppers.

Click for the materialsindex.

• Rating systems for movies, record sales and so on.
• Sizes of posters, books and billboards
• Telephone numbers, worldwide
• Television systems

Click for the mediaindex.

• Living things (with the exception of people).
• Atoms, particles, and other entities studied by physicists.
• Chemical elements and some compounds.
• Heavenly bodies, for example planets, stars, constellations, and “the Great Attractor.”
• Geological structures, such as mountains, and earthly phenomena like the wind, tides and earthquakes.

Click for the natureindex.

• Preferred number series for sizes.
• Notations, such as Roman numerals, with conversion calculators.
• Dimensions of geometric figures, such as triangles, with calculators.
• Types of numbers, such as types of primes.
• Particular values of great significance, such as pi, e and i.

Click for the numbersindex.

• weight, sizes of body parts, blood types.
• indices used by physicians and anthropologists, such as Apgar score and body mass index.

Click for the peopleindex.

For information on topics that involve relations between people, such as military rank or customs like toasts, look in the category Society.

• Indices devised to describe societies by nationality, for example for quality of life, corruption, development, and so forth.
• Social security numbers.
• Customs involving quantification, like gun salutes, tolling of funeral bells, and so on.
• Ranks, as in aristocracies or the military.

Click for the societyindex.

• Sizes of playing fields, balls, clubs, and other sports equipment.
• Rating systems, for example, of chess masters and whitewater rivers.

Click for the sportsindex.

• units that measure time, such as days, seconds, years and Julian periods.
• calendars, such as the Gregorian, Mayan, Islamic and Jewish calendars.
• calendar eras.
• time keeping systems, ancient (Egyptian) and Atomic Time.
• time zones of the world.
• divisions of the day, such as ship’s watches or medieval Christian (e.g., “vespers”)
• divisions of the month, for example, “the Ides of March”
• divisions of the year
• chronologies: reigns of kings, emperors and pharaohs, administrations in the United States.

Click for the timeindex.

• hand tools from the workshop, for example, saw blades.
• tools from the sewing basket, such as needles, crochet hooks and knitting needles.
• machines that are used to make something, such as cameras and computers.

Click for the toolsindex.

Tools used in the kitchen are in the Food & Drink category.

Materials that don’t become part of the finished work, such as abrasives, are also included in Tools.

For information on raw materials, such as lumber, look under Materials.

• Machine screws, nuts and bolts
• Wood screws
• Nails, tacks, staples

Click for the fastenersindex.

Click for an index of screw threads.

• Sizing of garments, shoes, hats, rings, body armor, and so forth.
• Sizing of items that are made to fit people even though we don't ordinarily think we're wearing them, for example, saddles for horses.

Click for the clothingindex.