GLOSS in English dictionary

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    Meanings and definitions of "GLOSS"

    • (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
    • (intransitive) To become shiny.
    • (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression, usually inserted in the margin or between lines of a text.
    • (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
    • (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
    • (countable) A deliberately misleading explanation.
    • (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
    • (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
    • (transitive) To give a deliberately false interpretation of.
    • (uncountable) A surface shine or luster/lustre
    • (uncountable, figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
    • (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
    • noun
      (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.
    • noun
      (countable)
      A glossary; a collection of such notes.
    • noun
      (countable, obsolete)
      An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
    • noun
      (countable)
      An extensive commentary on some text.
    • noun
      (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
    • noun
      (countable, law, US)
      An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law
    • noun
      (uncountable)
      A surface shine or luster/lustre
    • noun
      (uncountable, figuratively)
      A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To add a gloss to (a text).
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To give a gloss or sheen to.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make (something) attractive by deception
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To become shiny.
    • brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression
    • glossary
    • surface shine
    • superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
    • An explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text.
    • noun
      an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
    • noun
      an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
    • noun
      An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.
      This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.
    • noun
      an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"
    • noun
      the property of being smooth and shiny
    • noun
      the way in which someone understands or explains something.
      The newspapers all gave their own gloss on the president’s offer.
    • verb
      give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie"
    • verb
      give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing
    • verb
      provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
    • verb
      provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written"
    • noun
      An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law. [##P: This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it. ]
      This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.

    Synonyms of "GLOSS" in English dictionary

    apologise, explanation, refulgence are the top synonyms of "GLOSS" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of GLOSS

    • gloss ( third-person singular simple present glosses, present participle glossing, simple past and past participle glossed)
    • gloss ( plural  glosses)
    • gloss ( countable and uncountable;  plural  glosses)
    • gloss (third-person singular simple present glosses, present participle glossing, simple past and past participle glossed)
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