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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, cheese, 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.

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.

• Metal alloys.
• 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.
• Sizing of electronic components, such as resistors
• Sizes of sheets of paper, envelopes.
• Sizing of corks and stoppers.

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

• Atoms, particles, and other entities studied by physicists.
• The 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.
• Living things (with the exception of people).

• 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, i and so forth…
• Preferred number series for sizes.

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

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.

• dimensions of playing fields, balls, clubs, and other sports apparatus.
• rating systems, for example, ratings of chess masters and whitewater rivers.

• calendars, such as the Gregorian, Mayan, Islamic and Jewish calendars.
• calendar eras.
• time keeping systems, ancient (Egyptian) and modern (“Atomic Time”).
• time zones of the world.
• units that measure time, such as days, seconds, years and Julian periods.
• 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
• reigns of kings, emperors and pharaohs, administrations in the United States.

• 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.

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 this group.

For information on raw materials, such as lumber, look in the group Materials.

• Individual units of weight, measure and many other properties, ancient and modern, domestic and foreign, such as the meter, foot, hogshead and barn.
• systems like the metric system or British imperial measure.
• systems of weights and measures of a particular country.
• broad types of units, for example, seed measures of land.

• machine screws, nuts and bolts
• wood screws
• nails, tacks, staples

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