gloss
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɡlɒs/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɡlɔs/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "cot-caught" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɡlɑs/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs
Etymology 1
From a Germanic language, perhaps Middle High German, Dutch or Icelandic; compare glossi (“a blaze”).
Noun
gloss (usually uncountable, plural glosses)
- A surface shine or luster/lustre
- (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
- (Can we date this quote by Goldsmith and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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)[1]
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Goldsmith and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Synonyms
- (surface shine): brilliance, gleam, luster/lustre, sheen, shine
- (superficially or deceptively attractive appearance): façade, front, veneer
Related terms
Translations
surface shine
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superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
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Verb
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- (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
- (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
- (Can we date this quote by Philips and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.
- (Can we date this quote by Philips and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (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”).
Synonyms
- (give a gloss or sheen to): polish, shine
- (make (something) attractive by deception):
- (become shiny):
Translations
give a gloss or sheen to
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make (something) attractive by deception
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become shiny
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Etymology 2
From Middle English glosse, glose, from Late Latin glossa (“obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation”), from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “language”).
Noun
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, law, 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
Synonyms
- (brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression): explanation, note
- (glossary): glossary, lexicon
- (extensive commentary on some text): commentary, discourse, discussion
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
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glossary — see glossary
extensive commentary on some text
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Verb
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- (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to add a gloss to (a text)
Further reading
- “gloss”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “gloss”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “gloss”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Noun
gloss m (uncountable)
- lip gloss (cosmetic product)
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