glossnoun詞源 1/ɡlɒs/

• 1

  A surface shine or luster.

• 2

  A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

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  • To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One native charm than all the gloss of art.

glossverb詞源 1/ɡlɒs/

• 1

  To give a gloss or sheen to.

• 2

  To make (something) attractive by deception

  • You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.
• 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”).

glossnoun詞源 2/ɡlɒs/

• 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.

  • All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.
  • He was a prolific annotator - writing around fifty thousand glosses in as many as twenty manuscripts.
• 2

  Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.

• 3

  obsoleteAn expression requiring such explanatory treatment.

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  An extensive commentary on some text.

• 5

  lawAn interpretation by a court of a 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.
  • Judicial Gloss on Test [section title]
• 6

  human-scienceslexicographylinguisticsA definition or explanation of a word sense.

  • Dictionary entries comprise two essential parts, the headword ('lemma') and the author's explanation ('gloss').
  • Therefore, for many of the Hebrew words in this book, I have provided more than one gloss (using a slash to separate alternatives, or double slashes when a single slash would be ambiguous), in order to give you a sense of the possible meanings of nuances […].

glossverb詞源 3/ɡlɒs/

• 1

  To add a gloss to (a text).