Good points.
"Too many people seem to identify too many different things differently. And not recognizing that is what causes so much discord between otherwise reasonable minds."
And that's the point of having definitions, so things aren't infinitely one thing. We make the finite, manageable. We can reference things in reality to words, specifically. When definitions are lax, so too is understanding. We can always go back to the etymology and see how a word developed and changed to see all of it's meaning.
RE: The Verb is the Problem, Not the Noun!