Meaning

5 senses

  1. (transitive)To give a gloss or sheen to.

    polieren, glanzpolieren

    наводи́ть гля́нецnavodítʹ gljánec

    give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

  2. (transitive)To make (something) attractive by deception

    schönfärben, verbrämen, beschönigen

    наводи́ть лоскnavodítʹ losk

  3. (intransitive)To become shiny.

    лосни́тьсяlosnítʹsja

  4. (idiomatic, transitive)Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).

  5. (transitive)To add a gloss to (a text).

    kommentieren, beschriften, annotieren

Examples

15 sentences

  1. I can't find my lip gloss.

    ruЯ не могу найти свой блеск для губ. — marafon

    deIch kann meinen Lipgloss nicht finden. — Yorwba

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  2. Can you please gloss this sentence?

    deKannst du diesen Satz bitte glossieren? — Vortarulo

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  3. The president glossed over these divisive issues.

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  4. Rima applied lip gloss on her lips.

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  5. There's no point glossing over the facts.

    deEs bringt nichts, die Tatsachen zu beschönigen. — PeterR

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
give a gloss or sheen to:
make (something) attractive by deception:
become shiny:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
give a gloss or sheen to:
make (something) attractive by deception:
to add a gloss to (a text):

Origin

Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa

Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa (“to flame”); or perhaps from dialectal Dutch gloos (“a glow, flare”), related to West Frisian gloeze (“a glow”), Middle Low German glȫsen (“to smoulder, glow”), German glosen (“to smoulder”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *glus- (“to glow, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to flourish; be green or yellow”). More at glow.

An alteration of Middle English glosen after Etymology 2, from Old French gloser; compare Medieval Latin glossāre.

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Forms

glosses, glossing, glossed, glossed
Base formgloss · to gloss
3rd person singularglosses
Present participleglossing
Past simpleglossed
Past participleglossed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygloss
he, she, itglosses

Past simpleLesson

all personsglossed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave glossed
he, she, ithas glossed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gloss

Synonyms

7 synonyms
polishB2shineA2annotatemark up
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words
Derivedmisglossoverglossreglossgloss over

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
glorifyB2gloriousB1gloryB1glossaryglossolaliaglossy
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