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Definition: Glossary |
GlossaryNoun1. An alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glossary" was first used: sometime around 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Glossary \Glos"sa*ry\, noun; plural Gossaries. [Latin glossarium, from glossa: compare to French glossaire. See 3d Gloss.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Language | Dictionary of ancient, rare, little-known or new terms in a given language. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| gloss. | English | Glossary | Language |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: GlossarySynonym: gloss (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
List | Dictionary, lexicon; vocabulary, glossary; thesaurus. |
Word | Dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary; index, concordance; thesaurus; gradus, delectus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glossary |
| English words defined with "glossary": add on, affix, append ♦ Clavis ♦ Glossarial, Glossarially, Glossarist, Glossographer, Glossology, Gossaries ♦ Idioticon ♦ supplement. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glossary": Catchpole, control by means of a split coupling between the motor and the fan.The speed of the fan is varied by altering the slip between the two coupling halves either magnetically or hydraulically, Cow-lick ♦ Density Current ♦ electronic funds transfer ♦ Glaciers ♦ Issuance Date of the Documents ♦ Linux Network Administrators' Guide ♦ Multiple Master ♦ Nine Crosses, Not in the labor force ♦ Plasma Containment ♦ RFC 1208 ♦ Technical documentation ♦ Wroth Money. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Computer Glossary (1967) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index. (references) | |
This has been shown effective only for reducing hemiparetic tremors (see glossary). (references) | ||
Medical terms are shown in italic print and are explained in the text or in the glossary. (references) | ||
Business | The glossary below reflects commonly accepted definitions across various countries and official sources. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Glossary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glossary" is used about 174 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 174 | 23,577 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "glossary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fjalor (dictionary, lexicon, thesaurus, vocabulary, wordbook). (various references) | |
Arabic | قاموس مصطلحات, قائمة كلمات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кратък речник на непознати думи, глосар (gloss). (various references) | |
Chinese | 词汇 (lexical). (various references) | |
Czech | glosář. (various references) | |
Danish | glossar. (various references) | |
Dutch | glossarium. (various references) | |
Esperanto | glosaro, terminaro (terminology). (various references) | |
Farsi | فهرست معانی (Gloss), فهرست لغات , فرهنگ لغات فنی , فرهنگ لغات دشوار, سفرنگ (Commentary, Gloss). (various references) | |
Finnish | sanasto (nomenclature, terminology, vocabulary). (various references) | |
French | glossaire (gloss.). (various references) | |
German | glossar (vocabulary), Wörterbuch (dictionary). (various references) | |
Greek | γλωσσάριο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלון מונחים, רשימת מלים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szójegyzék (vocabulary). (various references) | |
Indonesian | glosarium, daftar kata (index). (various references) | |
Italian | glossario (gloss.). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 語彙 (vocabulary), 用語集 , グロー放電 (cage, cake, case, case by case, case method, case study, casework, caseworker, chaos, chassis ground, frame ground, gloria, glow discharge, groggy, grotesque, knock-out, KO), 単語篇 (vocabulary). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たんごへん (vocabulary), ごい (meaning of a word, vocabulary), グロッサリー , ようごしゅう. (various references) | |
Korean | 용어집. (various references) | |
Manx | fockleyr beg. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ordliste. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ossaryglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glossário (gloss, vocabulary). (various references) | |
Romanian | glosar. (various references) | |
Russian | словарь (dictionary, lexicon, vocabulary, wordbook), глоссарий словарный, глоссарий (glossology). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glosar, azbučni spisak. (various references) | |
Spanish | glosario. (various references) | |
Swedish | ordlista (vocabulary, wordlist). (various references) | |
Turkish | sözlük (dictionary, lexical, lexicon, thesaurus, wordbook), açıklayıcı sözlük. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | словник (dictionary, lexicon, nomenclator, vocabulary, wordbook), глосарій (gloss). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | từ điển thổ ngữ, từ điển cổ ngữ, bảng chú giải từ điển thuật ngữ. (various references) | |
Welsh | geirfa (vocabulary). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | glossarium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Glossary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glassary, glossory, gossary, grossary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glossary" (pronounced glô"serē) |
| 3 | -s er ē | accessory, anniversary, Brasserie, Chancery, compulsory, cursory, dispensary, extrasensory, grocery, illusory, nursery, rotisserie, sensory, sorcery. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-o-r-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: grossly. | |
-2 letters: algors, argols, argosy, glassy, glossa, glossy, gorals, grassy, largos, royals. | |
-3 letters: algor, argol, aryls, gaols, gassy, glary, glass, glory, gloss, goals, goral, gorsy, grass, grays, gross, gyral, gyros, largo, lasso, lossy, lyssa, orals, royal, sagos, saros, slags, slays, slogs, soars, solar, soras, soyas, yogas. | |
-4 letters: agly, also, aryl, gals, gaol, gars, gays. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-o-r-s-s-y" | |
+3 letters: glycosurias. | |
+5 letters: laryngoscopes, papyrologists, polygraphists, stylographies. | |
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