Guide to Search & Using the Glossary
Glossary in Context
The Glossary is one of the ways that the THEE Online Project (TOP) offers for clarifying the meaning of a term or word-phrase that interests you. You may also discover more via the Table of Contents, and varieties of conventional Search.
See details:► Improve readability by narrowing or closing the left-side navigation column.
| Method | Nature | Special Features | Access |
| Taxonomic Jargon | Provides an ultra-brief explanation of technical terms (jargon) used in THEE-related inquiry of this website. | • Full list with instant definitions. • Includes some ordinary terms that look as if they might be technical (and so cause confusion). |
Go to Glossary> Taxonomic Jargon in the Table of Contents. Click on the term that you are searching. It stays open if desired, and several terms can be opened at once for comparison. |
| Search contents | Covers every page accessed from the Table of Contents column, but excludes blogs. Quick search that commonly produces a large number of results. |
• Default search finds topics with any one of the terms entered.
• Increase search precision via phrases in double quotation marks i.e. "xxxx zzz yyyyyy". |
Enter search term(s) or phrase in the Search field on the right side of the header, and click on the magnifying glass icon. The title of every result is a hyperlink to a topic, where the search term will be shown highlighted. Use icon to remove highlighting. |
| Browser Search of the open webpage | Varies with the browser, and searches the currently open page only. | • Highlights all instances of the selected term in the current page, and usually enables you to click through them sequentially. | Use browser menu commands. |
| Glossary Search
Currently incomplete. |
A list of all formal names and associated terms identified in the Taxonomy, with their reference (meaning) and formula. Search of contents (above) will also identify Glossary entries. |
• Intra-list hyperlinks. • Formula equivalents. • Direct link to the relevant topic: to be developed. • Formulae link to an explanatory graphic: to be developed. |
Open in ToC, click on , then: (a) click the first letter of your term in the alphabetic list at the top of the page, and (b) scroll down to find your term. Terms are in strict alphabetical order, ignoring spaces between words. "The" and "a/an" are ignored. |
| Blog Search | Search field that is a complement to the Category List and Tag Cloud. | • Restricted to the blogs. | Visit the blogs. Use the search options in the right hand column. |
| Index | An alphabetic list of terms (with sub-terms) hyperlinked directly to topics (without any explanation). | Not currently provided. |
Glossary Coverage
The Glossary has been modified from (1995) and is in the process of being supplemented with terms from Frameworks posted on the TOP website. As a result, it contains many terms and formulae that are used on the website without formal explanation.
While systems are in place and every effort is made to be complete, new Frameworks are continually being posted and old ones updated. So the Glossary will never be fully up to date.
Accessing a Glossary Term
The Glossary Index is a list in strict alphabetical order (ignoring spaces between words) of all items in the Glossary.
To find a term, click on the first letter of your term in the alphabet at the top of the page. Then scroll down to find your term. Clicking on your term will take you to the page for that Glossary entry.
Each Glossary entry is set out as a table, listing in numbered rows each Reference/Meaning of the term and the relevant formula, where one has been identified. (A blank in the formula column may either mean it is irrelevant or that the formula is yet to be found/confirmed.)
A link at the bottom of each Glossary page will take you back to the Glossary Index in a new browser tab without closing your first page. You can browse around the Glossary at will with as many terms open as you wish.
Search within the Glossary
Many terms exist in different combinations or are in the Reference (or Meaning) column of other terms. These can be found by using the Search function accessed at the top of the left-side navigation column.
Type the term or terms into the search field at the top of the column, and then click the search button on the right of the field. If you seek a phrase, enclose it in double quotation marks e.g. "political boundaries".
Note that the search is restricted to the Glossary and will not show explanatory topics.
Explanation of Terms used in «Reference/Meaning»
Most key terms in the meaning or definition are hyperlinked to the relevant Glossary entry.
However, to avoid clutter, extremely common terms (like person, society, organization) are not hyperlinked every time they are used.
Note: Hyperlinks within the Reference/Meaning column always link to other Glossary entries and never connect to a webpage where the topic is examined.
All references to THEE terminology (jargon) commence with the words THEE Terminology.
Hyperlinks to Topics
It is planned that where ☞ appears at the beginning of a formulation/definition, it is a hyperlink to a highly relevant page in regard to that term-reference.
Formulae
Formulae in bold indicate that the reference is the primary formulation for the term i.e. the term is a .
Formulae in plain text indicate that the reference is either a property or property category related to that THEE-entity.
Formulae are provided wherever they are known.
In due course, all formulae hyperlinks will go to a relevant graphic representation.
Re / See / See Also / Cf
Re (context): These items describe the usage of the Glossary term in a specific context e.g. : or :
See: These items are closely related to the Glossary term.
See also: These items are distantly related to the Glossary term.
cf.: This item provides a contrast or example for the Glossary term.
Last Updated: 11-Feb-2013"