Meaning

A surface shine or luster..

Definitions by Sense

1. A surface shine or luster.
2. (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
3. (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
4. (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
5. (intransitive) To become shiny.
6. (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”).
7. (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.
8. (countable) Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.

Example Sentences

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

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.

You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.

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.

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]

Word Forms

• glosses
• glossing
• glossed

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When Should You Use Gloss?

Use gloss when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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