gloss

1. (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.Synonyms: polish, shinetransitive

2. (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deceptionExamples: "You have the art to gloss the foulest cause."transitive

3. (intransitive) To become shiny.intransitive

4. (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”).idiomatictransitive

1. (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.Examples: "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."Synonyms: gloze, annotationcountable

2. (countable) Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.Synonyms: glossarycountable

3. (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.countableobsolete

4. (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.Synonyms: commentary, discourse, discussioncountable

5. (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.Examples: "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]"UScountable

6. (lexicography) A definition or explanation of a word sense.Examples: "Dictionary entries comprise two essential parts, the headword ('lemma') and the author's explanation ('gloss')."; "Therefore, for many of the Hebrew words in this book, I have provided more than one gloss (using a slash to separate alternatives, or double slashes when a single slash would be ambiguous), in order to give you a sense of the possible meanings of nuances […]."

1. (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).Synonyms: annotate, mark uptransitive