gloss
IPA: gɫˈɔs
noun
- A surface shine or luster.
- (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
- (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.
- (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
- (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
- (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
- (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
verb
- (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
- (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
- (intransitive) To become shiny.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
- (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
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Examples of "gloss" in Sentences
- The interlinear gloss is a translation.
- Removing the gloss is the other option.
- Is there an easy way to do interlinear gloss there
- Briefly gloss over the cause and effects of the event.
- That's the obvious gloss, and the sad reality of the situation.
- The gloss describes the poem as an account of sin and restoration.
- A signature of the brand is their oversize metal tins of lip gloss.
- So, specular gloss is proportional to the reflectance of the surface.
- A longer or more complex transcription requires an interlinear gloss.
- Inclusion of English in the cognate list is not the same as glossing the item.
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