The four basic acts on stored things: create, read, update, delete. A named shorthand rather than a concept.

The craftsman of Greek myth — a mortal, not a god — whose work was so finely joined it held without being understood. Names this house's registries — the making that keeps other making findable.

The putting of a thing into place so it can be used. Installation is setup that persists.

A made thing wielded by a hand toward an end — the tool taken up for a sitting rather than the machinery that runs on its own. An instrument is answerable to whoever holds it.

One who keeps a thing working after the making is done. Maintenance is the unglamorous reason anything lasts.

Work done for another's benefit. Also a running thing that answers when asked — both are named from whom they serve.

A made thing that serves a doing — a verb given a body and offered to any hand.

To put a thing into service for what it can do. Also the custom that repeated employment hardens into.