Glossary print a specific definition

Question

How does one print a specific glossary entry, i.e. the definition, such that:

\newglossaryentry{hardware}
{
    name        = {Hardware},
    description = {...}
}

and, for example:

\glossaryDescription{hardware}

outputs

...

I can't seem to find a method to do this, the glossary specification only talks about referencing particular entries so that they become visible wherever you \printglossary, but I want to be able to use the definitions throughout my document as well.

Any advice/guidance is much appreciated!

Answer 1

Did you try the following macro available in the glossaries package?

\glsdesc[<options>]{<label>}[<insert>]
\Glsdesc[<options>]{<label>}[<insert>]
\GLSdesc[<options>]{<label>}[<insert>]

and the (*) versions exist as well.

From the documentation \glsdesc

is similar to \glstext except that it always uses the value of the description key