glossary

When a client asked her a year ago to design a glossary to train an artificial intelligence system, translator Jessica Spengler realised she was going to train her own replacement.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

There’s no glossary, but the main terms are clear enough: to “send” a climb is to finish it; a “crux” is a crucial pivot point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

Mr. Brooke-Hitching provides no way for the reader to fact-check his assertions, but he does offer a glossary to clear up the meanings of such terms as buoyant, pseudonym and venom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Here, you’ll find a glossary breaking down what all the ridiculous terms that get batted around when talking about crypto actually mean.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

That glossary isn’t complete—there are hundreds of the flowers of rhetoric in the overstuffed greenhouse of oratory—but it should provide a solid starting point.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

If you find yourself confused by any of these idioms, please consult one of the many “Love Island” glossaries the internet has to offer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Shieling, gneiss, pash, choss, sheep-fank: While reading Robert Macfarlane’s essays in “Landmarks” you’ll want to pause to say the words — collected in glossaries throughout — aloud, savoring their pronunciations and meanings.

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2018

“We were looking through the glossaries to try to find some interesting names,” Bluestone recalled.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2016

Updated daily, the site already contains glossaries for more than 1000 languages from 23 different language families, including 145,000 words.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 30, 2015

Behind the glossaries of warning calls, alarms, mating messages, pronouncements of territory, calls for recruitment, and demands for dispersal, there is redundant, elegant sound that is unaccountable as part of the working day.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas