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Dictionary: glos·sa·ry   (glô'sə-rē, glŏs'ə-) pronunciation
n., pl., -ries.
A list of often difficult or specialized words with their definitions, often placed at the back of a book.

[Middle English glosarie, from Latin glōssārium, from glōssa, foreign word. See gloss2.]

glossarial glos·sar'i·al (glô-sâr'ē-əl, glŏ-) adj.
glossarist glos'sa·rist n.

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A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary.

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    An alphabetical list of words often defined or translated: dictionary, lexicon, vocabulary, wordbook. See words.

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IN BRIEF: A list of words with their meanings, often printed at the end of a book.

pronunciation Use the glossary when you do not know the meaning of a word in the chapter.

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A glossary is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book which are either newly introduced or at least uncommon.

A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language which are 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 contemporaneously related to ontology.

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Core glossary

A core glossary is a simple glossary or defining dictionary which 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.

In computer science, a core glossary is a prerequisite to a core ontology. An example of this is seen in SUMO.

Searching glossaries on the web

The search engine Google provides a service to only search web pages belonging to a glossary therefore providing access to a kind of compound glossary of glossary entries found on the web. A research work on automated glossary extraction has been recently published.[1]

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References

  1. ^ P. Velardi, R. Navigli, P. D'Amadio. Mining the Web to Create Specialized Glossaries, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(5), IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 18-25.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - glossar, ordliste

Nederlands (Dutch)
glossarium

Français (French)
n. - glossaire

Deutsch (German)
n. - Glossar, (Wörterverzeichnis mit Erklärungen)

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γλωσσάριο

Italiano (Italian)
glossario

Português (Portuguese)
n. - glossário (m)

Русский (Russian)
глоссарий, краткий словарь

Español (Spanish)
n. - glosario

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - ordlista

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
词汇表, 术语汇编, 专门词典

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 辭彙表, 術語彙編, 專門詞典

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 용어 사전

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 用語解説, 用語解, 用語辞典, 語彙

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مسرد بالكلمات ومعانيها‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רשימת מונחים והסבריהם‬


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