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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

glossarize en · VERB

Etymology

From glossary + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To provide (a work) with a glossary.
    • It is to be expected that linguists should wish to glossarize the terms of their own science. 2019, William Bright, Linguistics in North America, 1, page 158:
    • I was asked to glossarize it and I refused to do so, arguing that by the time someone comes to the end of the novel they'll know what it is about. They'll know the names of the various avatars of Ganesh, for example. 2013, Kit Dobson, Smaro Kamboureli, Producing Canadian Literature:

Forms

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glossarizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
glossarized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
glossarized Tense=Past lexicographic
glossarizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic