I. noun
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lip gloss
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■ ADJECTIVE
high
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Examples of this are high gloss and art papers.
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Horton noted that the higher the gloss in a finish, the more imperfections will show.
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Cheer up dull-looking cabinets by painting them in a high gloss or eggshell finish.
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By Michael at Paul Nath Sleek, high gloss finish achieved with maximum height.
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Three coats are usually sufficient if a high gloss finish is required.
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The last coat is rubbed down with wet and dry paper and brought to a high gloss with a burnishing cream.
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Remove all door furniture, and where the existing paint is in reasonable condition, apply exterior undercoat and high gloss .
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Johnson Matthey's Cerene glaze formulation has enabled Inax to commercialise a new series of high gloss , super white tile glazes.
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finish
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The next stage is buffing to a gloss finish .
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By Michael at Paul Nath Sleek, high gloss finish achieved with maximum height.
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Three coats are usually sufficient if a high gloss finish is required.
lip
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Posturing while she checks her lip gloss .
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Her face was a white powder mask with black eye make-up and black lip gloss .
paint
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On the second flight, beige broadloom gives way to brown linoleum, bevelled mirror to beige gloss paint .
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Rather than buy primer and undercoat specially, you can manage with a coat or two of gloss paint alone.
■ VERB
add
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Apart from adding a gloss to the section, the courts have had to interpret the actual wording.
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But a lot depends on how good a job Claris does when it comes to adding the final gloss .
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Slick on just a touch of colour or use a complementary tint over your favourite lipstick to add extra gloss .
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It's a semi-permanent, non-ammonia, non-peroxide colouring solution that looks perfectly natural but adds beautiful shine, gloss and vibrancy.
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Herbal Ribbon Gel was used to slick hair and add gloss without making it stiff and sticky.
give
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At a meeting of the Royal Medical Society in 1860 he gave his own gloss on the prostitution debate.
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Roth gives a good gloss of the Yiddish.
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By the middle of the decade, they had formulated their auteur theory, which gave a new gloss to film studies.
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It is not the authors' intention to give it this gloss .
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Especially as it is told by the protagonists themselves, each giving his own gloss on their titanic duel.
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This gave the effect of gloss and texture.
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But they can, too, be given a contemporary gloss .
lose
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The bond market, a favorite safe haven during the markets tumult, lost its gloss as equities showed signs of life.
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Add vanilla extract and beat until mixture thickens and loses its gloss .
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If your hair has lost its natural gloss because of the chemicals in the colour, try a shine enhancing spray.
put
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All magazines and newspapers are a kind of conjuring trick - they put a gloss of coherence upon chaos.
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But he is a sufficiently good opportunist to put a strategic gloss on something he is going to do anyway.
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To that end Powell put a temporary gloss on an unstable situation.
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But it was new boy Matt who put the gloss on Oxford's performance.
take
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But nothing could take the gloss off Townsend's night of glory.
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Stephanie did not look well. The gloss had gone from her blond hair and her skin was splotchy looking.
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The gel is guaranteed to add gloss even to the dullest hair.
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The regime held elections in October, giving itself a gloss of democracy.
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The silverware had been polished to a high gloss .
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This hair gel is guaranteed to add gloss even to the dullest hair.
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walls painted gloss white
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And layers of gloss on those lovely shutters.
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At a meeting of the Royal Medical Society in 1860 he gave his own gloss on the prostitution debate.
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But nothing could take the gloss off Townsend's night of glory.
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Examples of this are high gloss and art papers.
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In places the green is so thick on the page that it develops a gloss like the dried skin of oil paint.
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It was another female, but small and insignificant-looking, with tawny wings whose gloss had faded.
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The sides and bottoms were padded with hard-looking calluses and spattered with the gloss of little scars.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
over
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And they can gloss over the social forces that contribute to the appeal of reductionist and deterministic ideas.
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Before exploring this suggestion further, it will be necessary to address certain issues that I have glossed over .
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It was admirably researched, hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones.
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This was an important political gesture and it is glossed over here.
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Feminist psychological theories tend to gloss over class relations, too.
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What many would-be reformers have glossed over is the transition problems involved in going from one system to another.
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Such psychologistic interpretations of the unconscious tend, like psychoanalysis itself, to gloss over gender and other social relations.
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When they were mentioned, they were usually made light of, or glossed over .
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Amy glossed over the bad times.
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As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body, she glossed back over the previous week.
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Feminist psychological theories tend to gloss over class relations, too.
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He sounded like generals everywhere, who gloss over their setbacks and remember their triumphs.
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It was admirably researched, hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones.
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Some try to gloss over weak programming with slick packaging.
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They no longer have any time for politicians who try to gloss over the harsh facts of life.
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What many would-be reformers have glossed over is the transition problems involved in going from one system to another.