Meaning of Gloss | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surface shine or luster.
   uncountable, usually
2. 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.
   countable
3. A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
   figuratively, uncountable, usually
4. Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
   countable
5. An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
   countable, obsolete
6. An extensive commentary on some text.
   countable
7. An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
   US, countable
8. A definition or explanation of a word sense.

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Examples

“To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One native charm than all the gloss of art.”

“Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.”

“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.”

“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]”

“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 […].”

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