What's the difference between dictionary and glossary?

Dictionary


Definition:

  • (n.) A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
  • (n.) Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
  • (2) Finally, the authors used the US Department of Labor Dictionary of Occupational Titles to obtain characterizations of the physical demands and knee-bending stress associated with occupations and to study the relation between physical demands of jobs and osteoarthritis of the knee.
  • (3) In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.
  • (4) Our Feature Dictionary supports phrase equivalents for features, feature interactions, feature classifications, and translations to the binary features generated by the expert during knowledge creation.
  • (5) The dictionary was able to record all the morbidity clinically seen with these three treatment schemes.
  • (6) Despite the dictionary definition of "craving" (a strong desire), two studies indicate that a substantial percentage of persons with alcohol and drug problems use the word "craving" to mean any desire or urge, even a weak one, to use substances.
  • (7) Unstructured speech samples from 20 institutionalized and 20 noninstitutionalized retarded children were employed using the computerized General Inquirer System and the Harvard III Psychosociological Dictionary.
  • (8) Its dictionary definition is “a Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult”.
  • (9) According to Samuel Lewis's 19th-century Topographical Dictionary of Wales, "several females" drowned while bathing there.
  • (10) Tony Abbott’s threat to “shirtfront” the Russian president during an international summit this month has prompted a dictionary to broaden its definition of the word beyond its Aussie rules meaning.
  • (11) Measures of the acceptability of employee drug testing were obtained from a sample of college students (N = 371) and a second sample of nontraditional, older college students (N = 112) and were correlated with job-analysis data from the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) and Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) databases, and with measures of perceived danger from impaired performance in each job.
  • (12) The Urban Dictionary defines hipsters as “a subculture of men and women, typically in their 20s and 30s, that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics”.
  • (13) The data obtained in the investigation indicate that the term has acquired a specific connotation within the international nursing context and that specific defined attributes distinguishes it from the broad and general definition found in standard dictionaries.
  • (14) The dictionary defines colonialism as one country taking control of another to exploit its resources or people.
  • (15) Every couple of minutes brought forth another word from the No-Turning-Back dictionary: "hard", "determined", "secure".
  • (16) Merkel’s office has not commented on her dictionary nomination so far, though they might arguably have been able to insist the word was rude or discriminatory, on the same grounds that the nominated word “Alpha Kevin”, meaning the “thickest person of all” was removed from Langenscheidt list, after a reported spate of complaints from people called Kevin, or their parents.
  • (17) Post-truth has now been included in OxfordDictionaries.com, and editors will monitor its future usage to see if it will be included in future editions of the Oxford English Dictionary.
  • (18) Acute came from acus , Latin for needle, later denoting pointed things, so cute at first meant “acute, clever, keen-witted, sharp, shrewd”, according to the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which doesn’t suggest the term could describe visual appearance.
  • (19) The Feature Dictionary supports three methods for feature representation: (1) for binary features, (2) for continuous valued features, and (3) for derived features.
  • (20) Yet the headline piece of provocation was threaded in the visitors’ colours, and foreign media were quickly scrambling for the history books – and the dictionary – upon deciphering the word printed at the bottom of it.

Glossary


Definition:

  • (n.) 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 science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Additionally, the system contains a reference index for all material in the tutorial, a scored clinical problems section, and a several hundred word glossary.
  • (2) Cultural anthropologists in America have begun a glossary for what they call “an Anthropocene as yet unseen”, intended as a “resource” for confronting the “urgent concerns of the present moment”.
  • (3) Be sure to check out our ever-expanding multi-lingual glossary of the football-related terms with no direct translation into English.
  • (4) In addition, at the end of the review is a brief electronics glossary (Appendix A) and an annotated bibliography (Appendix B) to guide further reading.
  • (5) A glossary of technical terms is included at the end of the review.
  • (6) Gift – the nature of gifts, and the gifts of nature – was one of the theoretical preoccupations of Landmarks , so I decided to add a final new chapter and glossary, the “Gift Glossary”, to the paperback edition.
  • (7) The Met Office's meteorological glossary, first published in 1916, defines an Indian summer as "a warm, calm spell of weather occurring in autumn, especially in October and November", usually occurring after the first frost of the year.
  • (8) A secret glossary document provided to operatives in the NSA's Special Source Operations division – which runs the Prism program and large-scale cable intercepts through corporate partnerships with technology companies – details an update to the "minimization" procedures that govern how the agency must handle the communications of US persons.
  • (9) An agreement on an acceptable "glossary" of lumbar terms and clinical syndromes is needed together with a new research emphasis on prevention and a continuation of research efforts in epidemiology, etiology, and management of LBP.
  • (10) As a result of this study, we have compiled a mixed criteria (anatomic and clinical) classification of kidney malformations, complete with a glossary of equivalent terms to denominate different types of kidney malformations which have been called by a wide variety of nomenclatures in the bibliography.
  • (11) All three courses and the glossary are accessible in the ATLAS-plus environment.
  • (12) There is a glossary of yoga terms at the end of this article.
  • (13) A glossary of common formulation has also been added for the benefit of those persons not familiar with the vocabulary.
  • (14) The latter classification used the glossary of the AMDP system, and the Andreasen scale (SANS).
  • (15) Many technical terms used in the text and tables are defined in the Glossary and are italicized in text.
  • (16) For the first time in the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) the chapter on mental disorders contained short glossary definitions for each category.
  • (17) Terms set below in small caps are defined in the Glossary.
  • (18) Instead, newcomers are advised to reference a much better resource: this clear, accurate and comprehensive Twitter glossary.
  • (19) The edge of darkness after a cold clear day … In the nine glossaries of Landmarks I had gathered 2,000 terms for aspects of landscape, weather and creaturely life , drawn from more than 30 languages and dialects of Britain and Ireland – from “ammil” (a Devon term for the “fine silver ice that coats all foliage when a freeze follows a thaw”) to “zawn” (Cornish for a “wave-smashed chasm in a sea-cliff”).
  • (20) The first, produced mainly as a reference tool for statistical purposes, will be included in ICD-10 with short glossary definitions as was the case for ICD-9.