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Definition gloss

Etymology 1

From a Germanic language, perhaps Middle High German, Dutch or Icelandic; compare glossi (“a blaze”).

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.
2. (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
3. (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
4. (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
5. (countable) A brief explanation in speech or in a written work, including a synonym used with the intent of indicating the meaning of the word to which it is applied
6. (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law

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).

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