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A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary.
glossary [′gläs·ə·rē]
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A file of commonly used phrases that can be retrieved in a word-processing program, usually through use of a command and a keyword.
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in linguistics dictionaries, an alphabetical listing of words or phrases to be defined or translated.

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So much is this so that a glossary written by a friend of Spenser, in which old words were explained, was published with the Shepherd's Calendar.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
By the time I had read all of Chaucer that I could find in the various collections and criticisms, my father had been made a clerk in the legislature, and on one of his visits home he brought me the poet's works from the State Library, and I set about reading them with a glossary.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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