From the homepage:
A crowdsourced metadata dictionary. Search for terms, upvote useful ones.
If you browse to association you will find:
A connection, asserted by an authority, between one thing and another.
If you follow the link to thing, you find:
Any entity, physical, digital, living, or abstract, or group thereof.
Whereas dictionary.reference.com gives us:
- a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object
- some entity, object, or creature that is not or cannot be specifically designated or precisely described
- anything that is or may become an object of thought
Which definition have you used and how did you convey it to others? Or did you just “trust” they would understand the meaning you were using?
I first saw this in a tweet by Deborah A. Lapeyre.