GLOSS


Meaning of GLOSS in English

I. noun

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lip gloss

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■ ADJECTIVE

high

Examples of this are high gloss and art papers.

Horton noted that the higher the gloss in a finish, the more imperfections will show.

Cheer up dull-looking cabinets by painting them in a high gloss or eggshell finish.

By Michael at Paul Nath Sleek, high gloss finish achieved with maximum height.

Three coats are usually sufficient if a high gloss finish is required.

The last coat is rubbed down with wet and dry paper and brought to a high gloss with a burnishing cream.

Remove all door furniture, and where the existing paint is in reasonable condition, apply exterior undercoat and high gloss .

Johnson Matthey's Cerene glaze formulation has enabled Inax to commercialise a new series of high gloss , super white tile glazes.

■ NOUN

finish

The next stage is buffing to a gloss finish .

By Michael at Paul Nath Sleek, high gloss finish achieved with maximum height.

Three coats are usually sufficient if a high gloss finish is required.

lip

Posturing while she checks her lip gloss .

Her face was a white powder mask with black eye make-up and black lip gloss .

paint

On the second flight, beige broadloom gives way to brown linoleum, bevelled mirror to beige gloss paint .

Rather than buy primer and undercoat specially, you can manage with a coat or two of gloss paint alone.

■ VERB

add

Apart from adding a gloss to the section, the courts have had to interpret the actual wording.

But a lot depends on how good a job Claris does when it comes to adding the final gloss .

Slick on just a touch of colour or use a complementary tint over your favourite lipstick to add extra gloss .

It's a semi-permanent, non-ammonia, non-peroxide colouring solution that looks perfectly natural but adds beautiful shine, gloss and vibrancy.

Herbal Ribbon Gel was used to slick hair and add gloss without making it stiff and sticky.

give

At a meeting of the Royal Medical Society in 1860 he gave his own gloss on the prostitution debate.

Roth gives a good gloss of the Yiddish.

By the middle of the decade, they had formulated their auteur theory, which gave a new gloss to film studies.

It is not the authors' intention to give it this gloss .

Especially as it is told by the protagonists themselves, each giving his own gloss on their titanic duel.

This gave the effect of gloss and texture.

But they can, too, be given a contemporary gloss .

lose

The bond market, a favorite safe haven during the markets tumult, lost its gloss as equities showed signs of life.

Add vanilla extract and beat until mixture thickens and loses its gloss .

If your hair has lost its natural gloss because of the chemicals in the colour, try a shine enhancing spray.

put

All magazines and newspapers are a kind of conjuring trick - they put a gloss of coherence upon chaos.

But he is a sufficiently good opportunist to put a strategic gloss on something he is going to do anyway.

To that end Powell put a temporary gloss on an unstable situation.

But it was new boy Matt who put the gloss on Oxford's performance.

take

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.

The gel is guaranteed to add gloss even to the dullest hair.

The regime held elections in October, giving itself a gloss of democracy.

The silverware had been polished to a high gloss .

This hair gel is guaranteed to add gloss even to the dullest hair.

walls painted gloss white

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And layers of gloss on those lovely shutters.

At a meeting of the Royal Medical Society in 1860 he gave his own gloss on the prostitution debate.

But nothing could take the gloss off Townsend's night of glory.

Examples of this are high gloss and art papers.

In places the green is so thick on the page that it develops a gloss like the dried skin of oil paint.

It was another female, but small and insignificant-looking, with tawny wings whose gloss had faded.

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

And they can gloss over the social forces that contribute to the appeal of reductionist and deterministic ideas.

Before exploring this suggestion further, it will be necessary to address certain issues that I have glossed over .

It was admirably researched, hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones.

This was an important political gesture and it is glossed over here.

Feminist psychological theories tend to gloss over class relations, too.

What many would-be reformers have glossed over is the transition problems involved in going from one system to another.

Such psychologistic interpretations of the unconscious tend, like psychoanalysis itself, to gloss over gender and other social relations.

When they were mentioned, they were usually made light of, or glossed over .

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Amy glossed over the bad times.

As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body, she glossed back over the previous week.

Feminist psychological theories tend to gloss over class relations, too.

He sounded like generals everywhere, who gloss over their setbacks and remember their triumphs.

It was admirably researched, hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones.

Some try to gloss over weak programming with slick packaging.

They no longer have any time for politicians who try to gloss over the harsh facts of life.

What many would-be reformers have glossed over is the transition problems involved in going from one system to another.

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