gloss, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

gloss (glosses plural & 3rd person present) (glossing present participle) (glossed past tense & past participle )

1 n-sing A gloss is a bright shine on the surface of something. (=sheen)
Rain produced a black gloss on the asphalt.

2 n-uncount Gloss is an appearance of attractiveness or good quality which sometimes hides less attractive features or poor quality.
Television commercials might seem more professional but beware of mistaking the gloss for the content.

3 n-sing If you put a gloss on a bad situation, you try to make it seem more attractive or acceptable by giving people a false explanation or interpretation of it.
a N, usu N on n
He used his diary to put a fine gloss on the horrors the regime perpetrated...

4 n-mass Gloss is the same as gloss paint.

5 n-mass Gloss is a type of shiny make-up.
She brushed gloss on to her eyelids., ...lip glosses.

6  verb If you gloss a difficult word or idea, you provide an explanation of it.
Older editors glossed `drynke' as `love-potion'.  V n as n gloss over  phrasal verb If you gloss over a problem, a mistake, or an embarrassing moment, you try and make it seem unimportant by ignoring it or by dealing with it very quickly.
Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.  V P n (not pron)