(n.) Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.
(n.) A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.
(v. t.) To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth.
(n.) A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.
(n.) An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary.
(n.) A false or specious explanation.
(v. t.) To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.
(v. t.) To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
(v. i.) To make comments; to comment; to explain.
(v. i.) To make sly remarks, or insinuations.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’m not someone to gloss over the BBC’s faults, problems or challenges – I see it as part of my job to identify and pursue them.
(2) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
(3) Behind these numbers, behind this legal jargon are actual families who have not had justice for decades and decades … some of this can get glossed over when you’re just thinking about it in policy terms.
(4) And if there is some patronising note in your question about that glossed-over quality of many other American films then I would say: I dislike that, too.
(5) The former Crystal Palace striker opened the scoring with a 28th-minute header but his penalty miss took the gloss off an otherwise impressive full debut.
(6) This glosses over the issue of how many the security forces are killing.
(7) For examples of a successful legacy we are customarily steered towards the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, even though, as always seems to be glossed over, the organisers faced a £100m shortfall with just weeks to go and had to be bailed out by Sport England (£30m), the government (£30m) and Manchester City Council (£40m).
(8) It not only stigmatizes the mentally ill – who are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it – but glosses over the role that misogyny and gun culture play (and just how foreseeable violence like this is) in a sexist society.
(9) Jenkins glosses over the lack of impact, insisting the document was always meant to be a "slow burn."
(10) Stressing the jolly side of atheism not only glosses over its harsher truths, it also disguises its unique selling point.
(11) The range includes products such as lip gloss (in claret red, precious gold and velvet mauve), bath crystals and body lotions.
(12) Half the energy secretary's statement concentrated on clean coal technology, glossing over its erratic progress, and the reality that even if carbon capture and storage is made to work, it will only have a marginal impact on emissions by 2020.
(13) "But I think people will gloss over that," he said.
(14) Perhaps, as children, their Sunday school teachers had glossed over the details of the single most significant event in the Christian narrative.
(15) The British and Irish governments sought yesterday to put some positive gloss on the Haass talks.
(16) Flat surfaces of artificially-carious enamel, softened in an intra-oral experiment, and naturally-carious (white spot) enamel were polished to a high gloss with diamond lapping compound, rendering them almost featureless by secondary electron scanning electron microscopy.
(17) It was, of course, a speech that glossed over any failings on the chancellor's part.
(18) It’s a quality that draws attention to the inferiority-complex under which so many British dramas labour – the fake American gloss of Luther, say, or Line of Duty.
(19) And beautiful Beyoncé tells us that since becoming a mother, she eschews big primping routines, opting for "no make-up, just sunglasses and lip gloss".
(20) After the election, liberal friends drew solace in a shared Facebook story claiming that Barack Obama had somehow saved them from the worst of a Trump administration by permanently protecting the right to an abortion – sadly glossing over the all-important role of the supreme court in such matters.
Glossary
Definition:
(n.) A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, the system contains a reference index for all material in the tutorial, a scored clinical problems section, and a several hundred word glossary.
(2) Cultural anthropologists in America have begun a glossary for what they call “an Anthropocene as yet unseen”, intended as a “resource” for confronting the “urgent concerns of the present moment”.
(3) Be sure to check out our ever-expanding multi-lingual glossary of the football-related terms with no direct translation into English.
(4) In addition, at the end of the review is a brief electronics glossary (Appendix A) and an annotated bibliography (Appendix B) to guide further reading.
(5) A glossary of technical terms is included at the end of the review.
(6) Gift – the nature of gifts, and the gifts of nature – was one of the theoretical preoccupations of Landmarks , so I decided to add a final new chapter and glossary, the “Gift Glossary”, to the paperback edition.
(7) The Met Office's meteorological glossary, first published in 1916, defines an Indian summer as "a warm, calm spell of weather occurring in autumn, especially in October and November", usually occurring after the first frost of the year.
(8) A secret glossary document provided to operatives in the NSA's Special Source Operations division – which runs the Prism program and large-scale cable intercepts through corporate partnerships with technology companies – details an update to the "minimization" procedures that govern how the agency must handle the communications of US persons.
(9) An agreement on an acceptable "glossary" of lumbar terms and clinical syndromes is needed together with a new research emphasis on prevention and a continuation of research efforts in epidemiology, etiology, and management of LBP.
(10) As a result of this study, we have compiled a mixed criteria (anatomic and clinical) classification of kidney malformations, complete with a glossary of equivalent terms to denominate different types of kidney malformations which have been called by a wide variety of nomenclatures in the bibliography.
(11) All three courses and the glossary are accessible in the ATLAS-plus environment.
(12) There is a glossary of yoga terms at the end of this article.
(13) A glossary of common formulation has also been added for the benefit of those persons not familiar with the vocabulary.
(14) The latter classification used the glossary of the AMDP system, and the Andreasen scale (SANS).
(15) Many technical terms used in the text and tables are defined in the Glossary and are italicized in text.
(16) For the first time in the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) the chapter on mental disorders contained short glossary definitions for each category.
(17) Terms set below in small caps are defined in the Glossary.
(18) Instead, newcomers are advised to reference a much better resource: this clear, accurate and comprehensive Twitter glossary.
(19) The edge of darkness after a cold clear day … In the nine glossaries of Landmarks I had gathered 2,000 terms for aspects of landscape, weather and creaturely life , drawn from more than 30 languages and dialects of Britain and Ireland – from “ammil” (a Devon term for the “fine silver ice that coats all foliage when a freeze follows a thaw”) to “zawn” (Cornish for a “wave-smashed chasm in a sea-cliff”).
(20) The first, produced mainly as a reference tool for statistical purposes, will be included in ICD-10 with short glossary definitions as was the case for ICD-9.