glossary

Jason is the author of “Your Money and Your Brain,” on the neuroscience of investing, and "The Devil's Financial Dictionary," a satirical glossary of business jargon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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

A glossary of technical terms is updated regularly with new entries.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 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

These are sometimes called Asiatic, Attic, and Rhodian: hence “Atticism” and “Asianism” in this book’s glossary.

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

The glossaries, on the other hand, may come as a bit of a letdown to old-school wordniks.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2016

At one point Lynch simply lists unusual guides and glossaries, such as “The Baltimore Bottle Book: Being an Annotated List of 170 Years of the Collector Bottles of Baltimore City and Baltimore County, 1820-1990.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 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