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gloss
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)
- A surface shine or luster.
- Synonyms: brilliance, gleam, luster, sheen, shine
- (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)
- (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
- Synonyms: polish, shine
- (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
- 1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton
- You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.
- 1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton
- (intransitive) To become shiny.
- (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)
- (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.
- (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
- Synonyms: glossary, lexicon
- (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
- (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
- Synonyms: commentary, discourse, discussion
- (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]
- 1979 American Bar Foundation. Annotated code of professional responsibility. page ix
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)
- (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)
- lip gloss (cosmetic product)
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sparkle
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sp??k?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sp??k?l/
- Rhymes: -??(r)k?l
- Homophone: SPARQL
Etymology 1
From Middle English sparkel, sparkle, sparcle, equivalent to spark +? -le (diminutive suffix).
Noun
sparkle (countable and uncountable, plural sparkles)
- A little spark; a scintillation.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- Brilliance; luster.
- Liveliness; vivacity.
- The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sparklen, sperclen, equivalent to spark +? -le (frequentative verb). Cognate with Dutch sparkelen (“to sparkle”).
Alternative forms
- sparckle, sparcle (obsolete)
Verb
sparkle (third-person singular simple present sparkles, present participle sparkling, simple past and past participle sparkled)
- (intransitive) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles
- (by extension) To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle
- A Mantelet vp on his shulder hangynge
Bretful of Rubies reede / as fyr sparklynge
- A Mantelet vp on his shulder hangynge
- (intransitive) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
- (intransitive) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce
- (transitive) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
- (transitive, obsolete) To disperse.
- (transitive, obsolete) To scatter on or over.
Synonyms
- (glisten, flash): shine, glisten, scintillate, radiate, coruscate, glitter, twinkle
Derived terms
- asparkle
- sparkler
- sparkling water
Translations
References
- sparkle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- kerslap
Middle English
Noun
sparkle
- Alternative form of sparkel
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