What is an "inline block"?

Hi there

I was looking for a way to include a bibliographic reference inline as
part of a paragraph. Then this formulation in the documentation struck
me:

"""
An inline bibliography, analagous to glosslist for glossarys.
[...]
Formatted as a displayed block.
"""

From http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/bibliolist.html

Apart from "analagous", which should be "analogous", it seems curious
that an *inline* element should be formatted as a *block*. I realise
that "inline" is used in a different sense here, but I think it's
confusing to use "inline" loosely.

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