gloss

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A surface shine or luster.
2. isim A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

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3. fiil To give a gloss or sheen to.
4. fiil To make (something) attractive by deception

   “You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.”

5. fiil To become shiny.
6. fiil Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
7. isim 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.

   “All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.”

8. isim Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
9. isim An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
10. isim An extensive commentary on some text.
11. isim An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.

    “This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.”

12. isim A definition or explanation of a word sense.

    “Dictionary entries comprise two essential parts, the headword ('lemma') and the author's explanation ('gloss').”

13. fiil To add a gloss to (a text).