different between gloss vs radiation

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

Borrowed from Latin radiatio, radiationis.Morphologically radiate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.di.?e?.??n/
• (some US dialects) IPA^(key): /?a?.di.?a?.??n/

Noun

radiation (countable and uncountable, plural radiations)

1. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.

   heat radiation

   • 2016, Donald R. Prothero, The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals (page 136)

     The second [canid group] is the radiation of dogs in South America that began when the first canids arrived about 3 Ma, after crossing the Panama land bridge (Fig. 5.4).

2. The process of radiating waves or particles.
3. The transfer of energy via radiation (as opposed to convection or conduction).
4. Radioactive energy.

Related terms

• radiate

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• nucleomitophobia

Anagrams

• antiradio

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radiatio, radiationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.dja.sj??/

Noun

radiation f (plural radiations)

1. radiation (all meaning)

Related terms

• radier

Further reading

• “radiation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).