When I hear model, I think of a class that I am going to create in the models directory.  

If the overall consensus is to keep the terminology abstract and equally applicable, I can certainly do that; maybe another part of the answer would be to expand the quickstart section and put some `How Do I?` type "translations" in there that will take very familiar terminology and link it into these pages.  There can't be more than 10 or 15 tasks like this that could be used as a jump off point to get people to make a mental association with  SQL Row/Record = Lithium Entity.

Just a thought.