Glossary vs Footnote - What's the difference?
glossary | footnote |
A list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with their definitions.
A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text
(by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related
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To add footnotes to a text; to annotate
As nouns the difference between glossary and footnote
is that glossary is a list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with their definitions while footnote is a short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.As a verb footnote is
to add footnotes to a text; to annotate.glossary
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Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
- In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.
