(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.
Varnish
Definition:
(n.) A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.
(n.) That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.
(n.) An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss.
(n.) To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.
(n.) To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prolonged coating duration from 24 hours to 1 week did not increase uptake and penetration of fluoride from both varnishes.
(2) The varnish seemed to be better with respect to the posology as the total dose of miconazole is minimal and only one application is necessary.
(3) In methods A and B the round biopsy field was bordered by copalite varnish, while method C utilized a scotch tape border.
(4) The unesterified resins are mainly used in paper size and the esters in printing inks, varnishes and adhesives.
(5) A clinical and radiographic examination of all children was performed immediately prior to the first application of varnish and 1 year later.
(6) Three applications of 2.3% Duraphat were slightly more effective than any of the other varnish treatments, but one treatment with 2.3% varnish was not more effective than treatments with 1.1% varnish.
(7) The preliminary treatment with a copal-ether varnish (Copalite) was of insignificant value.
(8) Forty molar and premolar teeth had non-retentive cavities prepared and restored with amalgam using (1) copal varnish (control), (2) a pin, (3) Amalgambond or (4) Panavia-Ex.
(9) Duraphat varnish was topically applied for 6 hours to the air dried surfaces of ten teeth (group 1).
(10) The sealing abilities of three therapeutic varnishes were compared with that of a conventional copal varnish in vitro under Tytin silver amalgam restorations.
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(12) After storage in 100% humidity at 37 degrees C for 48 h, the root surfaces were coated with nail varnish (except at the apex) and placed in 2% methylene blue dye solution and centrifuged at 3 x g for 3 min.
(13) The caries preventive effect of topical application of fluoride varnish (Duraphat), ferric-aluminum-fluoride solution (FeAlF) and chlorhexidine gel was compared in 2-yr clinical study.
(14) The varnish also serves as a guide to facilitate removal of excess resin beyond the cavosurface margin.
(15) After the long-term administration of doxilane-diolane, cresacin, antioxidant S-1 and fluorine varnish to mongrel albino rats and mice no difference in the level of spontaneous tumours both in the control and experimental groups of animals was observed.
(16) Fluoride varnishes are clinically effective but have not been shown to be superior to topical solutions or gels.
(17) Since then, the ink, manufactured only by Mysore Paints and Varnish, has been used in every local and national Indian election, as well as in key elections across the world, including in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(18) The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant’s brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.
(19) Southern viewers may occasionally require a translator, for moments such as when one girl explains she doesn't want to take off her nail varnish because her hands will look "proper scratty" (scruffy).
(20) When cavity varnish use was compared with no use of cavity varnish, significantly less microleakage was noted with the nonburnished control, single-burnish, and double-burnish techniques utilizing the cavity varnish.