gluais — meaning in English

English meaning

• gloss noun A shiny, polished surface.
• glossary noun An alphabetical list of specialist or unfamiliar terms with short explanations, usually placed at the back of a book or on a website.

Senses

gluais is used for these senses in English:

• gloss (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.
• glossary A list of difficult words or specialized terms used in a particular book or document, or in a particular domain of knowledge, with their definitions; a list of glosses (explanatory annotations).

gloss — full definition

1. noun A shiny, polished surface.
2. noun An impressive appearance that hides something less impressive underneath.
3. verb (usually "gloss over") To skim past or downplay a problem instead of properly addressing it.
4. noun A brief note explaining a difficult or foreign word, often placed in the margin or between the lines of a text.

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