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CompPile uses a controlled vocabulary for its
search terms. Most of its terms are intuitive but many are not. Some
are abbreviations or acronyms. (For more information on Search Terms, see Search Tips.) Please
note. This glossary is in process. Currently it is about half completed,
so a great many terms present in the Search Term field in CompPile are
not yet to be found in this Glossary.
[NOTE: January 2008: We are working on parts of the CompPile site to provide a more usable interface. Temporarily, when you use the glossary search tools, you will be sent to a different webspace with a different "look" but with improved functionality. Please excuse any inconvenience.]
You have two options to locate appropriate search terms:
Option One: This engine searches text in all four fields of the glossary (term, definition,
potluck, and related terms and their definitions). It will not search
for phrases as phrases.
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Option Two: This search engine will help locate the
non-intuitive and the abbreviated ones. It will also find related terms
that may expand a bibliographic search. It does not include proper names,
since they appear in the search terms without distortion.
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term The actual search term (in UPPERCASE) as used
in CompPile. This field includes words and phrases (in lowercase)
that might be expected to be in CompPile's Search Term field but have
been excluded from it.
definition: Indicates the parameters of CompPile's
search term, and sometimes suggests ways of entering it for the cleanest
search. Also includes generic search terms that appear in other fields
of CompPile's search engine (such as "doctoral thesis" or
"review essay" in the Title field).
pot luck: Synonyms of CompPile's search term, or
near synonyms. If you have tried a term or phrase in CompPile's Search
Term field with no luck, try it here.
as distinct from: Search terms used in CompPile
(in UPPERCASE) that are allied but distinct from the term in the first
field. Major overlapping of terms are indicated.
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