Meaning of the word glossary

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A glossary (from Ancient Greek: γλῶσσα, glossa; language, speech, wording) also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.^{[citation needed]} Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While glossaries are most commonly associated with non-fiction books, in some cases, fiction novels sometimes include a glossary for unfamiliar terms.

A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second language or glossed by synonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language.

In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion of ontology. Automatic methods have been also provided that transform a glossary into an ontology^[1] or a computational lexicon.^[2]

Core glossary[edit]

The intelligence law glossary provides a description of the key terms in intelligence law.

A core glossary is a simple glossary or defining dictionary that enables definition of other concepts, especially for newcomers to a language or field of study. It contains a small working vocabulary and definitions for important or frequently encountered concepts, usually including idioms or metaphors useful in a culture.

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Computational approaches to the automated extraction of glossaries from corpora^[3] or the Web^[4]^[5] have been developed in the recent years. These methods typically start from domain terminology and extract one or more glosses for each term of interest. Glosses can then be analyzed to extract hypernyms of the defined term and other lexical and semantic relations.

References[edit]

^ R. Navigli, P. Velardi. From Glossaries to Ontologies: Extracting Semantic Structure from Textual Definitions, Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge (P. Buitelaar and P. Cimiano, Eds.), Series information for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 2008, pp. 71-87.
^ R. Navigli. Using Cycles and Quasi-Cycles to Disambiguate Dictionary Glosses, Proc. of 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece, March 30-April 3rd, 2009, pp. 594-602.
^ J. Klavans and S. Muresan. Evaluation of the Definder System for Fully Automatic Glossary Construction Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine. In Proc. of American
Medical Informatics Association Symp., 2001, pp. 324–328.
^ A. Fujii, T. Ishikawa. Utilizing the World Wide Web as an Encyclopedia: Extracting Term Descriptions from Semi-Structured Texts. In Proc. 38th Ann. Meeting Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, 2000, pp. 488–495.
^ P. Velardi, R. Navigli, P. D’Amadio. Mining the Web to Create Specialised Glossaries, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(5), IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 18-25.

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Look up glossary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

glossarist.com: The Glossarist — Large list of glossaries
www.ontopia.net: The TAO of Topic Maps
www.babel-linguistics.com: Babel Linguistics Glossaries Selected Multilingual Glossaries by Industry
Hessels, John Henry (1911). «Gloss, Glossary» . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–128. This provides a detailed description of the development of glossaries in classical languages.

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To maintain brand and company consistency a glossary is a must. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Following the glossary is a three-page history of the area from ancient times to modern times. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As of December 2005, the glossary is available online (in both html and pdf) at Web Link. back ❋ Unknown (2006)

Throughout, the chapters conform to a uniform structure, including a keyword glossary, a summary of the article in question and a list of literature references.

The project gradually expanded into a 40-page booklet with sections on the different types of Indian restaurants in North America, the components of a menu, guidelines for ordering, sample meals, an FAQ, and a 150-some term glossary to help navigate those endless menus ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here are 2 to test your French: (answers hidden in glossary under Captcha) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mind you, this novel was published in 2004, so maybe a glossary is in another book. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The glossary is a work in progress and will be updated and expanded periodically. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Browsing this glossary is certain to whet your appetite to seek out these dishes in the places where they’re prepared. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The construction term glossary has over 12,000 entries…. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A lexicon of the kind is usually called a glossary (from Lat. glossarium), but bears at times in English the simple name of a gloss. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

In square brackets are Mackay’s occasional elucidat ions of the dialect — Child’s glossary is also useful. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Pages and media should have a purpose and should be mapped out in the keyword glossary and managed with a content editorial guide. ❋ Lee Odden (2010)

If you already have a keyword glossary, that can be shared with PR to leverage for their content creation to be optimized for journalists. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The keyword glossary can also include indications of relevance, popularity and competitiveness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Blog content optimization means leveraging a keyword glossary to allow company bloggers to make informed choices about what phrases to use in titles, categories, body copy, anchor text links, tags, image alt text and others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here are some simple steps for managing blog content, long term: Create a keyword glossary, much like you would for a website SEO project. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Students [look in] the [glossary] for [that word]. ❋ Tupitza (2010)

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Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > glossary
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Персональный Сократ > glossary
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[ˈɡlɔsərɪ]

glossary глоссарий glossary классификатор glossary словарь (приложенный в конце книги) glossary словарь glossology: glossology = glossary

English-Russian short dictionary > glossary
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glossary
1. толковый словарь
2. словник
3. глоссарий
Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > glossary
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glossary

Англо-русский синонимический словарь > glossary
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glossary

Patent terms dictionary > glossary
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glossary

1. n глоссарий

2. n словарь

Синонимический ряд:

list of terms (noun) compendium; dictionary; explanatory vocabulary list; gloss; lexicon; list of terms

English-Russian base dictionary > glossary
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glossary

1. глоссарий, словник

2. словарь

English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > glossary
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glossary

English-Russian big medical dictionary > glossary
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glossary

[ʹglɒs(ə)rı]

1. глоссарий

some textbooks have glossaries at the end — в некоторых учебниках в конце даётся словарь

НБАРС > glossary
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glossary

1) словарь специальных терминов

2) глоссарий

Англо-русский технический словарь > glossary
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glossary

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > glossary
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Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > glossary
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glossary

1) глоссарий, толковый словарь терминов

2) комментарии ; проф. словник

English-Russian electronics dictionary > glossary
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glossary

1) глоссарий, толковый словарь терминов

2) комментарии ; проф. словник

The New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > glossary
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English-Russian dictionary of computer science and programming > glossary
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noun

1) словарь (приложенный в конце книги)

2) глоссарий

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(n) глоссарий; словарь специальных терминов; толковый словарь

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[‘glos·sa·ry || ‘glɑsərɪ /’glɒs-]
словарь, глоссарий

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глоссарий

словарь

словник

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глоссарий

Новый англо-русский словарь > glossary
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glossary

1) глоссарий, словник

2) словарь (приложение в конце книги)

Англо-русский словарь по полиграфии и издательскому делу > glossary
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English-Russian Dictionary of Military Terms and Abbreviations > glossary
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glossary

English-Russian media dictionary > glossary

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Glossary — Glos sa*ry, n.; pl. {Gossaries}. [L. glossarium, fr. glossa: cf. F. glossaire. See 3d {Gloss}.] A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
glossary — late 14c., from L. glossarium collection of glosses, from Gk. glossarion, dim. of glossa obsolete or foreign word (see GLOSS (Cf. gloss) (n.2)) … Etymology dictionary
glossary — [n] word list dictionary, lexicon, vocabulary, word index; concept 280 … New thesaurus
glossary — ► NOUN (pl. glossaries) ▪ an alphabetical list of words relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations. ORIGIN Latin glossarium, from glossa explanation of a difficult word … English terms dictionary
glossary — [glôs′ə rē, gläs′ə rə] n. pl. glossaries [ME glosarie < L glossarium < glossa: see GLOSS2] a list of difficult, technical, or foreign terms with definitions or translations, as for some particular author, field of knowledge, etc., often… … English World dictionary
Glossary — For Wikipedia s glossary, see Help:Glossary. See also: List of glossaries A glossary, also known as an idioticon, vocabulary, or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.… … Wikipedia
glossary — UK [ˈɡlɒsərɪ] / US [ˈɡlɔsərɪ] noun [countable] Word forms glossary : singular glossary plural glossaries a list of the difficult words used in a piece of writing or subject, with explanations of their meaning … English dictionary
glossary — See dictionary. See dictionary, glossary, thesaurus … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
glossary — [[t]glɒ̱səri, AM glɔ͟ːs [/t]] glossaries N COUNT A glossary of special, unusual, or technical words or expressions is an alphabetical list of them giving their meanings, for example at the end of a book on a particular subject … English dictionary
Glossary of terms for fuel cell power systems — (JIS C 8800) is a Japanese fuel cell standard published by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA) [ [http://www.jsa.or.jp/default english.asp Japanese Standards Association] ] [ [http://www.fuelcellstandards.com/pacificrim.htm Fuel cell… … Wikipedia
Glossary of rail terminology — Rail transport Operations Track Maintenance High speed Gauge Stations … Wikipedia

Источник

Other forms: glossaries

A glossary is a dictionary of terms specific to a certain subject. A biology textbook might have a glossary in the back, so you can quickly look up all those technical words.

Many fields of study use terms that are pretty much restricted to that field of study, so authors often supply a glossary to help people understand what they’re talking about. The glossary is often found at the end of a book or article and is usually in alphabetical order. A glossary can also come at the end of a chapter or even in footnotes. If you’re just joining the world of Dungeons and Dragons, I recommend you look over the glossary, so you can get a sense of what your fellow gamers are talking about.

Definitions of glossary

noun

an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field

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: a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings

Example Sentences

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This glossary only scratches the surface.

—Lauren Mcgaughy, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023

Derwin, Stickabush, Itzsoweezee, Dan Stuckie, Dante is a scrub, Buddy: the group developed their own cryptophasia, a personal glossary of inside jokes to define themselves in opposition to a harsh hip-hop world that was destined to misunderstand their methods.

—Hazlitt, 22 Mar. 2023

Check out our glossary to understand where cloud computing came from, and where it’s headed.

—Heather Landy, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2022

This glossary has been adapted from a version originally published in October 2021.

—Laura Smith-spark, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022

The newest addition to this glossary is CRT.

—Damon Young, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022

The script should probably have a glossary at the back of it, because there’s a lot of detail in it, and that comes truly from Chad Stahelski, and his passion and his commitment to martial arts.

—Clark Collis, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023

To stay on the same page, all of your company’s employees, not only data specialists and executives, need a unified glossary and well-thought definitions.

—Vlad Vahromovs, Forbes, 22 June 2022

If technical terms can not be avoided, include a glossary.

—Lila Maclellan, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Middle English glosarie, borrowed from Medieval Latin glōsārium, glōssārium, from glōsa, glōssa gloss entry 3 + Latin -ārium -ary entry 1

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of glossary was
in the 14th century

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