(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.
Luster
Definition:
(n.) One who lusts.
(n.) Alt. of Lustre
(v. t.) Alt. of Lustre
Example Sentences:
(1) Many ceramists advocate polishing, rather than glazing, to control the surface luster of metal ceramic restorations.
(2) Tytin had the highest luster with Lojic and Futura having a generally dark surface after 3 years clinical service.
(3) The results showed that the high speed finishing technique by twelve and thirty fluted carbide burs and final polishing with Command Ultrafine Luster Paste produces the smoothest and flatest surface of HERCULITE XR.
(4) Their expulsions, upholding the actions of IOC leadership in late January, marked a watershed in the worst scandal in Olympic history and, officials hoped, the start of a reform process to regain the luster of the five rings.
(5) SS patients also complain of dryness of their hair and note a decrease in luster, and severe dryness of the skin is frequently accompanied by pruritus.
(6) All amalgam samples exhibit a gradual loss of the surface luster with blackish discoloration and pitting after a long exposure period to the medium.
(7) 61, 41-53] that 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) produces toxic responses through persistent occupancy of nuclear thyroxine (T4) receptors, and that maintenance of receptor occupancy by supraphysiologic concentrations of thyroid hormones mimics TCDD toxicity [L. H. Hong, J. D. McKinney, and M. I. Luster (1987).
(8) The endoscopic findings showed changes in the bronchial wall consisting of reddening, pallor, absence of mucosal luster, edema, engorgement of blood vessels, irregular mucosal surface, and elevated mucosa.
(9) After a year it was concluded that composites on which the resin coating is intact maintain their color match, luster, and smoothness significantly better than uncoated composite restorations.
(10) In the CNS of the giant barnacle (Balanus nubilus) a single pair of large neuronal somata (cross-commissural, or CC, cells), located near the entry of the median ocellar nerve, occasionally displays a prominent whitish luster.
(11) Lesions ranged from loss of surface luster to erosions and deep ulcers with eburnation of the subchondral bone and secondary proliferative synovitis.
(12) The corneas have remained clear and lusterous without tears in Descemet's membrane.
(13) The data suggest that limited mobility, changes in color, poor luster, and relative opacity of the tympanic membrane occur in healthy neonates and may reflect physiologic changes unique to the newborn period.
(14) However, the alloy with Pd showed a significant superiority in surface luster over this time period.
(15) Future research should be directed to developing solution cleansers which can maintain plaque-free dentures with a daily soaking period of 15 to 30 minutes and not affect the color and surface luster of the denture acrylic resin.
(16) The luster of the term has dimmed with overuse, but it is a much more accurate description of not just what ending poverty will give us, but how we might accomplish it.
(17) All 20 nails are uniformly affected with excessive longitudinal striations and loss of nail luster.
(18) Results showed that composites glazed with resin coating finishes at placement maintained their luster, color match, and surface smoothness significantly better after one year than composites that were not coated.
(19) The overspray aerosol from six paints consisted of organic paint binders with varying amounts of inorganic species as pigments or luster enhancers.
(20) Within a few minutes corneal changes occurred that were characterized by viscous mucus, loss of corneal luster and dryness.