transcription, транскрипция: [ glɒs, AM glɔ:s ]
( glosses, glossing, glossed)
1.
A gloss is a bright shine on the surface of something.
Rain produced a black gloss on the asphalt.
= sheen
N-SING
2.
Gloss is an appearance of attractiveness or good quality which sometimes hides less attractive features or poor quality.
Television commercials might seem more professional but beware of mistaking the gloss for the content.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If you put a gloss on a bad situation, you try to make it seem more attractive or acceptable by giving people a false explanation or interpretation of it.
He used his diary to put a fine gloss on the horrors the regime perpetrated...
N-SING : a N , usu N on n
4.
Gloss is the same as gloss paint .
N-MASS
5.
Gloss is a type of shiny make-up.
She brushed gloss on to her eyelids.
...lip glosses.
N-MASS
6.
If you gloss a difficult word or idea, you provide an explanation of it.
Older editors glossed ‘drynke’ as ‘love-potion’.
VERB : V n as n