Glossary example for kids
Keywords blood, body, cell, digestion, disease, drug, excrete, exercise, face, first aid, foot, hair, head, health, hygiene, injury, muscle, nerve, organ, reproduction, respiration, sense, skeleton, tooth
Keywords action, anger, behavior, belief, care, emotion, fear, happiness, hate, knowledge, learn, love, mind, morals, personality, sadness, thought
Keywords airplane, boat, building, car, city, clothing, community, cooking, drink, family, food, furniture, game, home, jewelry, leisure, relationship, room, school, sport, tool, transportation
Keywords celebration, culture, education, history, myth, religion, science, tradition
Keywords art, book, color, communication, dance, film, grammar, instrument, language, literature, music, photography, theater |
Keywords amphibian, animal, arthropod, bacteria, bird, cat, crustacean, diet, dinosaur, dog, endangered species, extinction, fish, flower, fruit, fungus, grain, grass, insect, invertebrate, leaf, life, mammal, milk, mollusk, pet, plant, reptile, rodent, seed, spider, tree, vegetable, virus, worm
Keywords chemistry, computer, electricity, element, energy, geology, Internet, light, mathematics, measurement, number, physics, shape, space, technology
Keywords air, conservation, continent, desert, earth, ecosystem, farming, fishing, forest, gardening, geography, hunting, lake, mountain, natural resources, ocean, plain, river, sea, soil, stone, tundra, volcano, water, weather
Keywords advertise, bank, business, economy, industry, money, tax, work
Keywords country, crime, democracy, government, law, legislature, military, monarchy, politics, power, war, weapon |
Kids' Glossary | Colorado State Forest Service
The Forester’s Corner helps children investigate Colorado’s forests close up and at a distance.
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*Adaptation: The process of adjusting to the environment, for better survival, over time. For example, a plant with unusually long roots will be better at absorbing water over a larger area than plants with shorter roots, making long rooted plants more likely to survive during periods of drought.
Annual Rings: The rings found within the cambium layer of a tree that represent one growing season within the tree’s life. Counting the annual rings on a tree will tell you how old a tree is and help determine what the weather was like during one year of a tree’s life.
*Bark: The tough exterior covering of a tree, shrub, woody root or stem.
*Biodiversity: The variety of life on Earth, reflected in the variety of ecosystems and species, their processes and interactions, and the genetic diversity within and among species.
Branch: The large side shoots that come out of the tree’s trunk and reach into the heartwood of the tree.
Browse: The leaves, twigs and shoots on trees in forests that grazing animals feed on.
*Cambium: A thin layer of living, dividing cells just under the bark of trees. This layer gives rise to the tree’s secondary growth.
*Canopy: The forest layer formed by the leaves and branches of trees or shrubs. There may be several canopy layers in a forest.
*Carbohydrates: Sugars, starches and celluloses that are produced by green plants and are important nutritional sources of energy for many animals.
*Chlorophyll: A group of pigments that produce the green hue of plants, essential to photosynthesis.
*Chloroplasts: The structures within plants that contain chlorophyll and enable photosynthesis to occur.
Coleoptera: The beetle order. All beetles in the order Coleoptera have hardened outer wing coverings called elytra, chewing mouthparts and undergo a complete life cycle (metamorphosis).
Coniferous: A plant that bears its seeds as cones and generally produces narrow, needle-like leaves.
Cork Cells: A layer of cells within trees that provide extra protection to the tree in case the bark is cracked or damaged.
Crown: The upper part of a tree composed of the tree’s leaves, branches, twigs, flowers and fruits.
Crown Fire: A fire that advances through the tops of tree or shrub crowns
*Deciduous: A plant that periodically (typically in autumn) loses its leaves.
Most American broadleaf trees are deciduous. A few conifers, such as the larch and cypress, also are deciduous.
*Defoliation: The loss of leaves from plants, usually because of insects, disease or stress.
Disturbance: An event that causes changes in the composition and structure of a forest, such as a wildland fire, drought, insect infestation, disease, flood, avalanche or windstorm.
Dormant: The inactive state that a tree will remain in during the cold winter months to withstand a lack of water.
Ecology: The scientific study of the relationships between living organisms and their environment.
Ecologist: A scientist that studies the relationships between living organisms and their environment.
*Ecosystem: The interacting system of a biological community and its nonliving environment.
Elytra: The hardened outer wing coverings on beetles in the Coleoptera order.
Epidemic: A situation in which plants, animals or disease rapidly spread and harm many individuals within a population.
Evergreen: A tree, shrub, or plant with foliage that remains green throughout the year.
Fire Ecology: The study of fire and its effects in ecosystems.
Fire Management: Actions to prevent wildland fires, stop them, or manage them for particular purposes, such as improving wildlife habitat.
Fire Suppression: The act of putting out a wildfire.
Fire Triangle: A representation of the three things required to start a fire: oxygen, heat and fuel. If any side of the triangle is missing, a fire cannot start. If any side of the triangle is removed, then the fire will go out.
FireWise: Guidelines for homeowners to follow to help keep their homes and properties safe from wildfires.
*Forest Management: The proper care and control of wooded land to maintain forest health, soil condition, water quality, wildlife habitat, production of wood products, beauty and other values, to accomplish specific objectives.
Fuel: Any living or dead material that will burn, such as dry leaves, fallen branches, pine trees, grasses or even homes.
Gallery: The tunnels that beetles burrow inside of the bark of a tree. The gallery is where the beetles will lay their eggs, and where the younger beetles will live during the winter until they grow into adults.
Ground Fire: Fire that consumes the organic material beneath the surface litter ground.
Hazardous Fuels: Dry fuels, such as grasses, downed branches, ladder fuels and trees that have gathered over time and increase the possibility of large wildland fires.
Heat: A form of energy that raises the temperature of matter.
*Heartwood: The older, harder, nonliving central portion of wood in some trees that is usually darker, denser, less permeable and more durable than the surrounding sapwood. This wood is the main support for the tree.
Hillslope Stabilization Treatments: Using groundcover, such as fallen trees, new grasses and even hay, to cover up bare soil and catch running water to prevent flooding and water runoff after a fire.
Hydrophobic: Objects that tend to repel or not absorb water. Soils can become hydrophobic after they have been burned and will not absorb water.
Interface: The boundary or the overlap between two different areas or things, such as housing developments and forests.
Ladder Fuels: Plants and other living and dead materials that provide a path between fuels on the ground to the branches and crowns of trees, sometimes resulting in high-intensity crown fires.
Larvae: The newly hatched, wingless form of an insect before it goes through the process of metamorphosis.
Lateral Buds: Places of growth on the side of twigs where branches begin to form.
Leaf/Leaves: The organs on plants that produce food for the plant through the process of photosynthesis.
Leaves can be narrow or broad, bladelike or needlelike, oval, triangular or round, smooth or ragged.
Metamorphosis: The transformation of a larva into an adult, such as a caterpillar into a butterfly.
Mosaic: A collection of diverse habitats or landscapes created by wildfires.
Mycangium: The little grooves on the back of the mountain pine beetle where the bluestain fungus attaches.
Native: Living or growing naturally in a particular place.
Needles: Modified narrow, needle-like leaves on coniferous trees and shrubs.
Nutrients: A substance that an organism needs to live and grow, which is taken from the organism’s environment.
Over-browsing: When animals eat too much of the twigs, leaves and shoots on trees and reduce a tree’s ability to grow.
Parasitic: Describes a relationship in which an organism (the parasite) lives in or on another (the host) from which it obtains nourishment.
This may weaken or even kill the host.
Pheromones: A chemical that influences the behavior of other individuals of the same species. In a mountain pine beetle outbreak, beetles release the chemical smell that tells other beetles “this tree is full, go somewhere else.”
Phloem: A layer of tree tissue that is just inside the bark. The phloem transports food and nutrients for the tree from the leaves to the stem and roots.
*Photosynthesis: The process by which green plants manufacture simple sugars in the presence of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water. Chlorophyll is essential to the series of complex chemical reactions involved.
*Prescribed Burn: The planned application of fire to a forest, stand, prairie or slash pile with the intent to confine the burning to a predetermined area.
Pupa: The stage in the metamorphosis of an insect between the larva and the adult when the organism is not feeding, sometimes known as a cocoon.
Ray Cells: The dark streaks that reach from the outside of the tree to the tree’s interior and transport waste throughout the tree.
Resin: A sticky substance that pine trees release when wounded. This happens when beetles try to burrow into the bark of a tree and resin is released in an effort to expel the beetles from the tree.
Roots: The underground extensions of a tree that collect nutrients and water and anchor the tree to the ground.
Sapwood: The layer of the tree between the heartwood and the cambium that carries water, minerals and plant sugars throughout a tree using xylem and phloem tissues.
Serotinous Cones: Cones that require a source of heat to open and release their seeds.
Shrubland: An area occupied by woody plants, which are less than 12 feet tall and usually have more than one stem rising from the ground.
Springwood: The light colored cells produced by the growing cambium layer of the tree in the spring.
Suckers (also known as sprouts): The name for new aspen trees that are produced from underground by older aspen tree roots because of increased soil temperatures.
Summerwood: The darker colored cells produced by the growing cambium layer of the tree in the summer.
Surface Fire: Fire that burns loose debris on the surface including dead branches, leaves and low vegetation.
Symbiotic: A relationship between two or more different organisms of different species where both of the participants in the relationship may benefit in some way.
Terminal Buds: The extensions at the end of twigs that cause the twigs to grow longer.
Terminal Bud Scale Scars: Scar-like abrasions on twigs that show where the terminal buds on a tree were located before they fell off for the year.
Trunk: The single main stem of a tree that provides the tree with structure.
Twig: The part of a tree’s trunk that attaches the leaves to the tree.
Urban: Describing a city or a town where people live and work and go to school.
Wildfire: Uncontrolled fires that burn in the country or in wilderness or wildland areas.
Wildland: An area where there is essentially no human development or man-made structures.
Wildland-Urban Interface: The boundary or overlap between wildlands and urban areas. In other words, the wildland-urban interface is the place where man-made structures (like the ones found in urban areas) are close to or within natural landscapes (or wildlands) where surrounding vegetation can catch fire easily. There is a high chance of wildfires starting in the wildland-urban interface.
*Woodland (or open forest): A wooded area in which the crowns of the trees do not form a closed canopy. (In other words, the leaves and branches of the trees and shrubs do not touch.
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Xylem: The tissues within the tree bark that transport water from the roots to the crown of the tree.
*Project Learning Tree definitions:
American Forest Foundation. Project Learning Tree: Pre K-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide. 2008.
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What is a glossary, where it is used, an example of the correct compilation of a glossary
In some books or term papers, there are constantly such terms that are not clear to the layman. In order to make it easier for the reader to understand the material, the authors add a special dictionary to the book, which is called a glossary.
Contents
- 1 What is a glossary, what is it for
- 2 What is a definition of a term, example
- 3 How to write a glossary
- 4 Example of a glossary
What is a glossary and what is it for
A glossary is a dictionary that contains definitions of all words that may be unfamiliar to the reader.
The glossary greatly facilitates the perception of the text, since a person at any time has the opportunity to refer to the dictionary and check the meaning of a certain term.
In addition, the glossary is effectively used when translating professional texts into another language. Some languages have terms that do not have their counterparts in others.
In addition, a situation often arises when there are words in the text that have several meanings, and it is far from always clear from the context what the term means. The glossary allows you to minimize the likelihood of an inaccurate translation, because in this case, the meaning of a certain term can always be clarified in the dictionary.
The glossary is widely used in the preparation of various legal documents. This is done in order to avoid any possible inaccuracies, which is especially important in jurisprudence and legislation.
What is a definition of a term, example
A term is a word that accurately explains a concept used in a particular field of science.
Unlike conventional words, the term is only unambiguous, and it never expresses any emotion. To define a term, you need to retell the essence of the concept in simplified words. Let's consider a specific example.
The term amphibrach is often found in the literature. An ignorant person will not understand what exactly is being discussed. In order to clarify the meaning of the word, it is worth giving it a definition: amphibrach - a three-syllable poetic foot with an emphasis on the second syllable. Now it will become clear to any reader what amphibrach means. The same should be done with terms when creating a glossary.
However, the meaning of a certain term may differ in different areas. For example, in anatomy, the tongue is a human organ, and in the military environment, the language is called a prisoner who is able to share valuable information.
Some terms have firmly entered the language and are widely used, such as thinking, consciousness, language, while the humanist never uses the word differential in his speech.
This is where problems arise when reading the text, because not all terms are widely used in the language. It is to clarify special words that a glossary is used.
Glossary Compilation Methodology
Before you start making a glossary, it's worth understanding what principles underlie the compilation of a glossary. The reader must fully understand the meaning of the material presented in the text. Accordingly, all words that may cause difficulties in understanding should be included in the glossary.
The definition of a term must accurately and unambiguously disclose the concept. The information must be presented in simple terms. The reader should have no difficulty in finding the definition of the term, and therefore in the glossary, all words should be arranged in alphabetical order.
It is not necessary to use this order, it is quite possible to make a dictionary by page. The main principle is that a person who has turned to a glossary should not have problems finding the required definition.
The definition of the term should be easy to find
From all the above principles of compiling a dictionary, the entire algorithm for compiling a glossary comes from:
- You should completely re-read the source text and write out all the words from there that belong purely to a certain area. A person who is ignorant of the topic will also help in compiling the list, because he will begin to be interested in the meaning of incomprehensible words in the first place.
- Next, you need to come up with a definition for each discovered term and make sure that the meaning of each word is understandable to the average person. Again, the effectiveness of this item is greatly increased if there is a friend nearby who does not understand the field.
- At the very end, you need to place all the terms in alphabetical order and write their definition next to them. Glossary is ready!
The process of compiling a glossary is quite simple. Before completing the work, it is worth re-reading all the words and their concepts and making sure that all the meanings are clearly explained.
It does not hurt to play it safe and ask friends and acquaintances to help with the check.
An example of a glossary
To make it clear what a well-formed glossary looks like, it is worth giving a concrete example. Consider an excerpt from a glossary related to football. Most of the words on this list are incomprehensible to the common man. Here are the most striking examples of terms that should be included in the glossary.
| Term | Definition |
| Bus | A defensive tactic in which the players defend their goal and do not attack. |
| Own goal | A goal scored by a team player in his own goal. |
| Scorer | Forward who constantly scores many goals. |
| Second floor | Mounted martial arts. |
| Chance to score | The moment when a player has excellent chances to score a goal. |
| Dirty play | A type of tactic in which the players of a team grossly break the rule in order to achieve a result and behave provocatively. |
| Dead ball | A shot that is extremely difficult to hit even for an experienced and skilled goalkeeper. |
| Long bench | A situation where there are many players among the substitutes who are not inferior in terms of the level of play to the players of the main squad. |
| Mundial | The Spanish name for the World Championship, the world's main football competition. |
| Imposing play | A tactic in which the team is in full control of the situation on the field, has the ball and attacks most of the playing time. |
| Operational space | A large space in which players of the opposite team |
| OFSAIDE | Rules Violation when the football player is located closer than 2 players than 2 players enemy. |
| Playmaker | A player who plays a key role in attacking activities. |
| Free kick | A type of penalty in which a player gives the ball to a partner from the place of infringement. You can't score a goal with a direct kick. |
| Set piece | The moment when play resumes after a free kick or free kick has been taken or after an out has been called. |
| Wall | A football technique in which the player, immediately after receiving the ball, returns it back to his partner in another place. |
Why is this example so good? Here you can clearly see what glossaries are created for. A person who does not understand football will most likely not immediately understand what it means to play with a bus. The only way to deal with such a term is to refer to the glossary.
Moreover, the definitions of words are understandable on an intuitive level, and the reader immediately understands what the text is about. This glossary follows all the basic rules for compiling such dictionaries - all words are arranged in alphabetical order, on the left side are all possible football terms, and on the right are clear explanations of these words.
Compiling a glossary is a lot easier than it looks. To do this, it is enough to find in the text all the terms that may cause difficulties in understanding, and then write a comprehensive and understandable definition.
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Here is an updated glossary of some of the words and phrases that are used on the Internet and social media for reference.
Android Application
Short for application, is a program or piece of software designed to fulfill a specific purpose and usually downloaded by a user to a mobile device.
Address
Usually short for "web address" - where you find a specific web page or website on the Internet, also known as a URL.
It can also be an abbreviation for an email address.
Advertising software
Computer programs that display advertisements on the screen. Often installed without the knowledge of people.
Antivirus program
A program that is used to detect, prevent, and remove viruses on your computer or mobile device, or sent to you by email, chat, or web page.
Ask.fm
Social networking site located in Latvia through which users can ask questions to other users with the possibility of anonymity. Ask.fm's reputation as a platform for cyberbullying has been covered in the media, although a change in ownership promised to stamp out the activity.
beef
To be offended or start one with another person.
BFF
Meaning "Best Friends Forever".
Block
Prevent the computer from finding something on the Internet, stop a program, or prevent someone from chatting with you.
BRB
Short term for “be back soon”, which usually means that people have told their friends via text messages or online social media that they are away for a short period of time.
Browser
A program that allows you to use the World Wide Web to view Internet pages. Internet Explorer is the most commonly used browser, but Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari are also examples of browsers.
Chat Room
A place on the Internet where you can talk to one or more people. A "virtual room" where users can "talk" to each other by typing. Conversations can be either one-on-one or with the participation of several people. Some chats are moderated/controlled.
Clickbait
Clickbait. This is the link that encourages you to click on it. It is common to link to YouTube videos with "clickbait" titles to grab user attention and get more video views.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file that is sent to a web browser by a server and stored on the user's computer. It can then be read by the server each time the user revisits the same website and is used to track personal preferences, purchases, and other information.
creepy
Follow someone's social media profile closely: excessively.
May be known as "Facebook harassment". It's not as sinister as it might sound, often sneaking up is done to catch up with friends, remember past posts or older content, or find out more about a friend the person has a romantic interest in. This doesn't always happen alone: it can be done if friends browse and gossip about another friend's past posts or content.
Cuffs or cuffs
Cuff is a slang term for being in a relationship and telling the world that he or she is yours.
Cyberbullying
Bullying that occurs through electronic means such as email, mobile phones or social media posts. More.
Cyberspace
A term for the Internet, often referred to as the online or virtual world.
cyber harassment
Chasing someone online. May be related to stalking, but the victim may not be aware that they are being stalked online.
Data
Data is information stored on computers and other storage devices.
dead
In slang it means something absurd or bad.
Download
Transferring a file from one computer system to another (often smaller) computer system. From the point of view of an Internet user, downloading a file means requesting it from one computer or one web page to another computer and receiving it.
E-commerce
Buying or selling over the Internet, usually from a website.
Email address
Internet messaging method. Messages are written by one person and then sent to one or more people at their email address.
Emoji
This is a set of emoji characters that were first used in Japan but quickly became popular all over the world.
Fabotage
Slang term for "Facebook sabotage" is used to refer to hacking into and tampering with someone's Facebook account while unattended.
A social networking website that allows users to create their own profiles, share status updates, images, videos and chat with other users.
The Facebook Messenger application is a messaging service that works through the Facebook inbox features.
FaceTime
FaceTime is a video chat application developed by Apple. Specifically, you can use FaceTime from your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Mac computer, and you'll also need to contact someone on one of those devices.
Family agreement
Agreement on how Internet access and Internet-enabled devices will be used. To be drawn up and agreed after discussion by family members. This is sometimes referred to as an "online security contract".
Favorites
Web addresses stored in your browser that allow you to go directly to certain websites/web pages. Also known as "bookmarks".
Filter
A tool to prevent certain types of content, keywords, or anything you choose to block from entering your computer.
Blazing
Sending an offensive or offensive message to a specific person over the Internet.
Games
Activity of playing video games. More.
Briefing
Griefing is when a player in an online game intentionally annoys and harasses other players in the game.
Grooming
When a stranger tries to have a relationship with a child for illegal purposes; this can happen online or offline. More.
Ghost or apparition
"Ghost" means avoiding someone until they get the painting and stop contacting you.
"Ghostly" is when a person stops all communication with his friends or the person he is dating without prior notice or warning. Basically you will see how they avoid phone calls from friends, social networks and avoid them in public.
hacker
Hackers are people who gain unauthorized access to data remotely using a computer or mobile device.
Hashtag
A hashtag is a word or phrase without a space, prefixed with #. It is used on social networking sites such as Twitter to tag and group messages from different people around a common theme.
Icon
A small image used to represent an action or file on a computer screen.
IM (instant messaging)
A technology similar to chat technology that notifies the user when a friend is online, allowing them to communicate by exchanging text messages.
It's like text messages, but online.
In-App Purchase
In-App Purchase allows a user to purchase virtual "add-ons" associated with an application when they use the application. In-game purchases are common among games that are advertised as "free to download", but often promotion in a game requires the purchase of a virtual game "currency".
Incognito Browsing
Incognito Browsing is a mode in Google Chrome that allows you to browse without creating browsing history and downloads. It also prevents cookies from being saved. Children are advised to use this only on public computers or any computer they use outside of the home.
Internet
A global computer network that provides a variety of information and communication tools.
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
A company that connects computers to the Internet for a fee.
IP address (Internet Protocol)
IP address (Internet Protocol) as a unique string of numbers separated by dots that identifies each computer on the network.
iTunes store
Apple e-commerce site. The iTunes store has songs, movies, music videos, and apps that you can purchase and download on your Apple device or (excluding apps) play on your PC using iTunes.
Prison bait
A person who is under the age of consent, but who dresses, behaves, and looks like he is over the age of consent, and who does nothing to correct this impression.
Jam or Jemmin
A song that a person especially likes, sometimes to the point that it becomes his personal anthem or theme song. Derived from the expression "jamming". "Jam" also means you are relaxing.
laptop
A laptop is a small, portable computer that runs on batteries.
Link
Short for "hyperlink", clicking on it will take you to a predefined location, such as another web page, or open a document in your browser. Links are often displayed in bold, underlined, or colored fonts.
Lit
Slang for something really good or fun.
Logout
To disconnect from a computer, network or online service.
Login
Identify yourself on a computer, network, or online service, usually using a username and password.
Username
Username is the name you use to tell a computer or website who you are.
malware
Short for "malicious software". Programs that damage your computer (viruses), steal your personal information (spyware), display unwanted ads (adware), or give hackers access to your computer (Trojan horses).
Messenger
Microsoft Messenger closed in 2013 and has now moved to Skype.
MMS
Multimedia messages, most commonly picture messages and videos, that can be sent and received using a mobile phone.
Moderator
The role of the moderator is to ensure that all comments comply with the explicit terms of use, and is responsible for removing comments that violate these rules.
For example, a chat moderator will ensure that any comments posted follow the rules of that chat.
Navigation
These are buttons on a web page that allow you to navigate the site. The quality of a site can often be judged by how easy it is to navigate.
Net
Abbreviation for Internet
Network
The number of computers connected together so that they can exchange data.
Offline
Offline. Not connected to the Internet. Modern usage might consider the concept of "offline" in a real life context: if you are dating someone offline, you are dating in the real world.
Online
If you are online, you are connected to the Internet and can communicate with other computers.
Internet care
Some people use the Internet to exploit young people for sex; visiting social networks, games and chat rooms as a way to get close to children so that they can exploit or even blackmail them for sexual purposes. Befriending a child in this way is called courtship. More.
Operating system (OS)
The main program that controls the computer and allows the user to call other programs and access files and other data.
The three most common operating systems are Microsoft Windows, Apple's Mac OS, and Linux.
Parental Controls
Parental Controls are the names of a group of settings that allow you to control what content your child can see. Combined with privacy settings, they can help you protect your kids from things they shouldn't see or experience online. More.
Password
A word or series of letters, numbers, and symbols known only to you that you use to log into computers, networks, or online services.
PDF is a file format that retains most of the attributes (including color, formatting, graphics, etc.) of the original document, no matter what application, platform, and hardware type was originally used to create it. PDFs are often opened with Adobe Acrobat, although there are other PDF readers out there.
peering
A person of the same age, or having the same social status or the same abilities as other people in the group.
Pharming
Pronounced "farming", this is a technique by which scammers attempt to obtain personal/private information from users by directing them to false - or "fake" - websites that look legitimate in your browser.
Phishing
Pronounced "fishing", this is an attempt to trick people into visiting malicious websites by sending emails or other messages that purport to come from banks or online stores.
Podcasts
Current series or episodes of a specific program that can be downloaded automatically or manually. These are usually mp3 audio files or video podcasts.
surrogacy
A program - in American terms - is a set of instructions for a computer to do something useful, such as displaying an image, displaying a web page, or modifying a document. Every time you want to do something on your computer, you need to use one or more programs.
Profile
Social networking sites and some chat rooms allow users to complete a personal profile that others can see. Children and teenagers should never include any information in their profile that could identify them or reveal where they are.
Garden fishing
Garden fishing is a growing social trend in which young people make exaggerated comments about their emotional problems in order to elicit sympathy from others.
It also means that those who are under real emotional stress can be accused of sadfishing and fired by their peers without proper support.
Search engine
A search engine is a website, such as Google, that allows you to search other websites by entering words that identify the content you are looking for.
self
Short for self-portrait, selfies are photographs taken by the photographer, often taken at arm's length.
Sexting
The term sexting is used to describe the sending and receiving of sexually explicit photos, messages, or videos.
smartphone
A mobile phone that can perform many computer functions, including browsing the web, taking and sharing photos and videos, playing games, shopping, downloading applications, accessing social networking sites, and instant messaging and video calls.
SMS
Short Message Service. The technical term for text messages.
Snapchat
A photo sharing application where users can send photos or videos to their friends.
Social networking sites
Social networking sites allow members to keep in touch with friends and family, meet people with similar interests, share photos and videos, and learn new things.
streaming
A method for watching movies or videos on the Internet, and listening to audio on the Internet. Internet radio is an example of a device that broadcasts content. More.
Spyware
General term for software that secretly tracks your activities. Although they sometimes look ominous, like a remote control program used by a hacker, software companies have been known to use spyware to collect customer data.
Spam
Spam was originally an electronic message sent to a large number of people without their consent, usually promoting a product or service.
Also known as unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) or junk e-mail. Now spam is not limited to email, spam comments appear on blogs, social networks and many other places on the web.
tablet
Mobile computer with screen and operation in a single flat device the size of a large envelope.
Tags / Tags
Tags are keywords assigned to content - web pages, messages, images, videos, music or files - by the user or other people. Tags are not predefined - they are chosen by the user to better describe the content.
Third party applications (applications)
Third party applications (or applications) are elements of any service that are not created by the host service, but by another company or individual. They can be downloaded to your device with Internet access. iTunes and Google Play are examples where you can buy and download apps.
TikTok
TikTok is the social media app that replaced the popular app Musical.ly when it went offline in 2017. More.
Tinder
Tinder is similar to Grindr but for the heterosexual community. Users are "selected" by other users as who they would like to meet by swiping right on their photo.
If they're not interested, they'll swipe left to "dismiss" them and see more options. Because it's location-based, Tinder introduces users to "matches" within their closest radius.
Troll or trolling
A troll is a person who posts inflammatory comments or messages in an online community such as a forum, chat room, blog or social media.
A social network that allows users to send and read "tweets" of up to 280 characters.
Download
To copy information from your Internet-enabled device to the Internet or to your PC/Laptop.
URL
Short for Uniform Resource Locator, a URL is an address that leads to a specific web page. URL for Internet Matters: www.internetmatters.org. Also known as a "web address".
Video call
Video calls are similar to regular phone calls, except that you can see the person you are calling and they can see you.
Video conference
Video conference is a direct visual connection between two or more people living in different places for the purpose of communication.
virus
A virus is a program that can do various things, such as deleting files, stealing data, or even taking over computers so that hackers can control them. Viruses enter computers via e-mail, from a file downloaded from the Internet, or from a disk. To protect computers, you need to install antivirus software. Smartphones can also be infected with viruses and should be protected.
Virtual
This is a common term on the Internet. This means a simulation of the real thing. The Internet itself is often viewed as a virtual world where you make virtual friends and become part of virtual communities.
Voice over IP (VOIP)
VOIP is a term used to describe telephone (voice) calls over the Internet.
Development
Abbreviation for World Wide Web.
Webcams
A camera built into your device or connected to a network allows you to share images and videos over the Internet. Smartphones have built-in cameras that allow them to be used as a webcam for video calls and Skype.
Web conferencing
A webinar (a combination of the words "Internet" and "seminar") is a video seminar, lecture, or presentation delivered over the Internet using webinar software.
Website
Collection of web pages. Websites perform different functions, such as news sites, educational sites, gaming sites.
Chinese text and voice messaging social network that allows users to communicate with people nearby or abroad.
Free real-time messaging application. Users can share images and videos, participate in "group chats" and share locations. Since it is based on knowing the user's phone number, you can only send messages to users if you already know their phone number. More.
Wi-Fi
A wireless network that allows Internet-connected devices to connect to the Internet without cables.
Yolo
Yolo, which means you only live once, is an anonymous question and answer app used on Snapchat.
Users can post anonymous questions and comments to a Snapchat story, as well as attach images. More.
Zip It Up
Created by ChildLine, Zipit is designed to help teens deal with difficult sexting and flirting situations. The app offers humorous lines and tips to help teens control their chat flirting.
5g
5th generation mobile network. 5G provides a new kind of network that is designed to connect almost anyone and everything, including machines, objects, and devices.
3G
Third generation mobile standard that offers fast connections so you can make video calls or surf the Internet.
4G
Fourth generation mobile devices with even faster connectivity for much faster web browsing on mobile devices, tablets and laptops. Speeds are closer to what you currently experience with home broadband.
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