What's the difference between encyclopedia and glossary?

Encyclopedia


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Encyclopaedia

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, as the Russian encyclopedia for its practitioners concluded: “Information war … is in many places replacing standard war.” The idea was clear enough.
  • (2) During the survey, the common folk medicine plants used by women were recorded and Ayurvedic and Unani drug encyclopedias were consulted for the antireproductive potential of these plants.
  • (3) Named Siri after the startup company which developed it and was bought by Apple in April 2010, the voice activation also links through to a non-Google search engine, Wolfram Alpha, which offers a type of online encyclopedia database of facts and theories.
  • (4) How could we get millions of people to work together, across borders and perspectives, without pay, to build a reliable, accurate encyclopedia?
  • (5) Overnight, there were more than 100 modifications to the online encyclopedia’s page on Haut Ogooué, a Gabonese province.
  • (6) The proliferation of weblogs, and particularly the success of the user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, prove that democratising the online space can have wide-ranging and legitimate uses.
  • (7) Information war was less about methods of persuasion and more about “influencing social relations” But when I began to pore over recent Russian military theory – in history books and journals – the strange language of the encyclopedia began to make more sense.
  • (8) And later: "I'm a human being, not a walking encyclopedia."
  • (9) It was the loss of his childhood encyclopedia that brought home the heartbreak.
  • (10) They are doing it every minute of every day in indexed web searches, in blogs, in books, in email, in maps, in news, in photos, in videos, in their own encyclopedia.
  • (11) In one instance "Blame Liverpool fans" was anonymously added to the Hillsborough section of the online encyclopedia.
  • (12) Albucasis taught medicine at the university of Cordoba and published an encyclopedia of medicine comprising 30 volumes, the last one dealing with surgery.
  • (13) So the state doesn’t switch on its self-defence mechanisms.” If regular war is about actual guns and missiles, the encyclopedia continues, “information war is supple, you can never predict the angle or instruments of an attack”.
  • (14) Perhaps the encyclopedia, and talk of “invisible radiation” that could override “biological defences”, was simply one more bluff – like the fake nuclear weapons that were paraded through Red Square in order to lead overeager western analysts down a hall of mirrors.
  • (15) This paper describes such a system (a "diagnostic encyclopedia workstation"), which provides information to the pathologist engaged in daily diagnostic practice.
  • (16) The only reason we know about this block is because of how Wikipedia handles its own blacklist – a list of IP addresses that have been used recently in vandalism against the encyclopedia.
  • (17) The first image was the one most preferred by the patient; the second was the one determined by the experimenter to represent the most successful mastery of developmental stages according to the schemata outlined by Erickson (International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, Vol.
  • (18) "The Merck Index", an internationally recognized encyclopedia of drugs, chemicals, and biologicals was produced by the traditional method for eight consecutive editions.
  • (19) The revelations come after it emerged that Shapps had changed his entry in the online encyclopedia to correct the number of O-levels he obtained.
  • (20) The "Hager", undoubtedly a practical, indispensable encyclopedia of more than 10,000 pages is to be found in every German pharmacy.

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.