Relation: Region

From: Tangible-Entity

To: Spatial-Entity

Description:

Tangible-Entity has the Spatial-Entity as its subregion.

Examples:

  1. The lumbar area of my back.
  2. Tallahassee is in Florida, and Florida is in North America.
  3. The bottom of my cup is scalding hot.
  4. The tip of John's nose is sunburned.

Neighboring Concepts:

Similar to...But different because...
location region refers to an area of the tangible-entity, location refers to the location of the whole tangible-entity.
has-part A has-region references a place, whereas has-part references an object. For example, the tip of my umbrella is a region; however, if the tip was a discrete object that was attached to my umbrella, then it would be a part.