Evidently we tend to describe creation geometrically - e.g. continuum, field, wave, universals, whole - whereas others tend to describe creation by some quantization of the continuum, e.g. matter, energy, particles, DNA, object.
To be effective, we must translate between observer perspectives. For instance, a field has value at all points in space/time whereas particles are point-like - and therefore the we must explain the difference and which perspective we have taken.
Moreover, concerning information theory and molecular biology, we not only must translate between the successful communication of a message (Shannon, Rosen, et al) and the message itself (DNA) but also between the message and the language of the message (the coding of the DNA.) And again between autonomous and non-autonomous systems.
Sadly, the translations require many common words because, as you suggest, the dictionary fails to satisfy our need for precision.
I had an involved mental ‘hiccup’ this morning. It occurred to me to wonder what are the implications if one of two scenarios is correct: 1) the spirit is a spacetime phenomenon and we just have yet to define the variable expressions fo the continuum in which spirit originates; 2) spirit is a none spacetime phenomenon and we have an impasse because it ‘appears’ that all there is in either in God or in the universe God created and not ‘in God outside of the universe God created’. I mean, think of the ramifications! We already sense that the self is not strictly ‘in the biological electromagnetic impulses’ so we already sense that there is a where/when within the Created universe which is oh so close yet oh so unacknowledged ... the information of a thought may have electromagnetic impacts but the thought, the essence of the thought conveyed in this sentence is outside of the elctromagnetic realm. What if the spirit that God breathed into humankind is also inside the created universe and we aren’t even ‘up on the thing in which spirit is carried’, the soul or behavior mechanism? How many spatio-temporal realms ahve we yet to discover?