Definition of "gloss" in English

Noun

1. A surface shine or luster.

2. A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

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Verb

1. To give a gloss or sheen to.

2. To make (something) attractive by deception

3. To become shiny.

4. Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).

Noun

1. 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.

2. Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.

3. An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.

4. An extensive commentary on some text.

5. An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.

6. A definition or explanation of a word sense.

Verb

1. To add a gloss to (a text).