concordance

Etymology

From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

noun

1. Agreement; accordance; consonance.
   John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances. 1850, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part Second, Chapter I
2. (grammar, obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.
3. (biblical) An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
   c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
4. (computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

verb

1. (transitive) To create a concordance from (a corpus).
   Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books. 2015, Wenzhong Li, Simon Smith, “Introduction”, in Bin Zhou, Simon Smith, Michael Hoey, editors, Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, page 2