different between gloss vs radiance

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?s/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?l?s/
• Rhymes: -?s, -??s

Etymology 1

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 gl?sen (“to smoulder, glow”), German glosen (“to smoulder”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *glus- (“to glow, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *??el- (“to flourish; be green or yellow”). More at glow.

Noun

gloss (usually uncountable, plural glosses)

1. A surface shine or luster.

   Synonyms: brilliance, gleam, luster, sheen, shine

2. (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

   Synonyms: façade, front, veneer.

   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

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

Derived terms

• glossy
• glost

Related terms

• glow

Translations

Verb

gloss (third-person singular simple present glosses, present participle glossing, simple past and past participle glossed)

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

   Synonyms: polish, shine

2. (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
   • 1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton

     You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.

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

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English glosse, glose, from Late Latin gl?ssa (“obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (glôssa, “language”).

Noun

gloss (plural glosses)

1. (countable) 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.

   Synonyms: explanation, note, marginalia

   • 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.

2. (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.

   Synonyms: glossary, lexicon

3. (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
4. (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.

   Synonyms: commentary, discourse, discussion

5. (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.
   • 1979 American Bar Foundation. Annotated code of professional responsibility. page ix

     This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.

   • 2007 Bruce R. Hopkins. The law of tax-exempt organizations. page 76

     Judicial Gloss on Test [section title]

Derived terms

• beglossed

Related terms

• glossary

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English glossen, glosen, from Old French gloser and Medieval Latin gloss?re.

Verb

gloss (third-person singular simple present glosses, present participle glossing, simple past and past participle glossed)

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

   Synonyms: annotate, mark up

Derived terms

• gloss over

Translations

Further reading

• gloss (material appearance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gloss (annotation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gloss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gloss in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gloss at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• slogs

Portuguese

Noun

gloss m (uncountable)

1. lip gloss (cosmetic product)

English

Etymology

From Latin radiare + -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?di.?ns/

Noun

radiance (countable and uncountable, plural radiances)

1. The quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid.
2. (physics) The flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source.

Translations

Anagrams

• Caradine, acridane, canaried, caridean