Pronunciation Noun
gloss (uncountable)
- A surface shine or luster/lustre
- (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
- To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One native charm than all the gloss of art.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)
- Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
- (surface shine) brilliance, gleam, luster/lustre, sheen, shine
- (superficially or deceptively attractive appearance) façade, front, veneer
- Russian: блеск
gloss (glosses, present participle glossing; past and past participle glossed)
- (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
- (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
- You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.
- (intransitive) To become shiny.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over#English|gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
- German: polieren
- Russian: наводи́ть гля́нец
- Russian: наводи́ть лоск
- Portuguese: brilhar
- Russian: лосни́ться
gloss (plural glosses)
- (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
- (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
- (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
- (countable) A brief explanation in speech or in a written work, including a synonym used with the intent of indicating the meaning of the word to which it is applied
- (countable, legal, US) An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law
- 2007 Bruce R. Hopkins. The law of tax-exempt organizations. page 76 ↗
- Judicial Gloss on Test [section title]
- 1979 American Bar Foundation. Annotated code of professional responsibility. page ix ↗
- This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.
- 2007 Bruce R. Hopkins. The law of tax-exempt organizations. page 76 ↗
- (brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression): explanation, note
- (glossary): glossary, lexicon
- (extensive commentary on some text): commentary, discourse, discussion
- French: glose
- German: Glosse, Glossem; Erläuterung qual a hypernymic term, Randbemerkung qual a hyponymic term
- Italian: glossa, chiosa
- Portuguese: glosa
- Russian: глосса
- Spanish: glosa
- German: Erläuterung
gloss (glosses, present participle glossing; past and past participle glossed)
- (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
- Portuguese: glosar
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