I think the word preface refers to books. I have a small document that is in the form of a hierarchical outline. Before my document, I want to put a small paragraph with instructions how to consume the material. What should I title that small paragraph?
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The more specific term is deixis (the phenomenon) and such words are deictic.
From Wikipedia:
In linguistics, deixis refers to words and phrases that cannot be fully understood without additional contextual information. Words are deictic if their semantic meaning is fixed but their denotational meaning varies depending on time and/or place. Words or phrases that require contextual information to convey any meaning – for example, English pronouns – are deictic....
This has been mentioned here before, and there have been discussions about problems in labelling say distal locative situations ("Is this Jill speaking?"). And John Lawler's answer to 'What part of speech does “here” have in “I am here”?' is priceless and worth repeating:
... you're not playing with a full deck, if you take your definitions of "part of speech" from English books. They're hopeless; pay no attention to them.
Here is a proximal deictic locative predicate in the sentence - I am here.
It does not modify the verb am.
It does not modify anything, in fact.
(Be) here is the Predicate in the sentence.
The logical form is - HERE (I)
The am is indeed an auxiliary verb, meaning, like the Spanish auxiliary estar, 'be located (at)'.
Executive Summary: Calling something an "adverb" is a confession of ignorance.
There does not seem to be a generally accepted term for the part of a street address which identifies the city, state, and postal code. I suggest you choose a term that makes sense to you and define it for your readers.
One interagency committee called the “Address Standards Working Group” has worked on the problem of a street address data standard. They called these parts, separately and together, the Larger Areas of the street address. Maybe you will find that choice useful.
(The larger areas are what make the street name and number unambiguous. For example, there are many 101 Main Streets. Identifying a larger area which resolves the ambiguity is necessary, such as “Hazlet, Texas” or “50112”.)
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I have used "Summary", "Abstract", and "Overview" to provide the reader with a guide to the document and how it is organized. Generally, the notion of how to follow, understand, or "consume" the material is implicit in the wording of this section.
"Overview" is common in my industry. It is a word that is more explicit than "Introduction", putting the reader into the mindset that this is a summary of what the entire document is about, rather than just the first step into material.
If you want to be explicit on how the document should be read, there is nothing wrong with saying so in the section having this title (overview, summary, abstract).