What's the difference between glossy and matte?

Glossy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
  • (superl.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
  • (2) About 20,000 of those glossy programmes are normally sold for a big occasion at Manchester United but for this game almost four times that number had been produced.
  • (3) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
  • (4) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
  • (5) Photograph: Martin Godwin They say: Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Condé Nast: "Given the current economic climate, it is reassuring that glossy magazines are still selling in considerable numbers.
  • (6) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
  • (7) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
  • (8) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
  • (9) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
  • (10) The launch - from five sites across the US in partnership with Canadian media group Quebecor - will bring him into direct competition with the giants of the glossy world of American publishing, like Time Inc and Condé Nast.
  • (11) For people who don’t care about pop music or the fashion industry, it’s just another month of glossy magazines.
  • (12) Asos also publishes a glossy magazine with circulation of 470,000 – more than Glamour , Grazia or even the giveaway Stylist .
  • (13) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
  • (14) However, Condé Nast insiders say Greig's resignation is expected within days and the glossy magazine publisher's managing director, Nicolas Coleridge, is understood to be discreetly searching for a replacement Tatler editor.
  • (15) In addition to glossiness, color coordinates in the CIELAB color scale and surface roughness were measured.
  • (16) When you subscribe to the Daily Telegraph you get so much extra: “extra, extra every day”, says the glossy new TV commercial for Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney tabloid.
  • (17) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
  • (18) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
  • (19) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
  • (20) Don't place too much authority on universities' glossy photos and grinning case studies – they're adverts.

Matte


Definition:

  • (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.
  • (n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC.” Clarkson, May and Hammond have signed up to launch a rival show on Amazon’s TV service , while Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of the BBC’s Top Gear show with fellow presenters Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.
  • (2) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
  • (3) As luck would have it, the outgoing Bartlet and his successor, Matt Santos, are currently dealing with a foreign crisis, too.
  • (4) Kirkby is not a particularly prosperous town,” says Matt Donnelly, 27.
  • (5) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.
  • (6) Matt Busby used to say to us that if we were six points off the lead at Christmas we would win the league.
  • (7) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
  • (8) But Matt Collins of Exeter University said it was unlikely to cause an absolute cooling: "It could offset some of the warming, but really the greenhouse gas signal wins over the AMOC.
  • (9) Updated at 3.53am GMT 3.50am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 2, bottom of the 9th Matt Carpenter takes a ball and a called strike.
  • (10) The head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), Matt Baggott, said it was a difficult security operation dealing with a large number of people determined to cause disorder and violence.
  • (11) He considers himself more of a tracksuit coach, despite seeing his influence with the younger age groups at St George’s Park diminished since Matt Crocker swapped Southampton for the FA to become head of player and coach development, but would be more than happy to be part of the body’s consultation process as they seek to identify Hodgson’s successor.
  • (12) League Two’s top scorer, Matt Tubbs of Portsmouth, features alongside his team-mate Jed Wallace in the PFA’s team of that division.
  • (13) He’s a great defender when he hits you but when you have guys like Matt Giteau who is light on his feet and can change direction …” And what of England, hosts of the tournament who, beset by selection quandaries, forgot the fundamentals against France last weekend.
  • (14) My condolences to his family and friends February 27, 2017 The culture minister, Matt Hancock, said Kaufman, former chairman of the culture select committee, had “a distinctive voice and championed the arts in parliament”.
  • (15) I relate this clinical observation to the idea of non-attachment as found in spiritual tradition, and I draw on the work of Bion and Matte Blanco to locate these ideas within psychoanalytic theory.
  • (16) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
  • (17) This story was amended on 20 November to correct the given name of Matt Topic.
  • (18) The BBC said it had no further comment to make about Clarkson's suicide remarks, on Wednesday's edition of BBC1 show hosted by Matt Baker and Alex Jones.
  • (19) Matt Schaub has done nothing so far today to persuade them otherwise, completeing 13 of 21 passes for 134 yards, no touchdowns and one interception.
  • (20) I had more fun with Matt Winning , delivering a silly set on the Free Fringe imagining himself the son of Robert Mugabe.