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glosa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • annotation noun A note added to a text, diagram or image to explain or comment on part of it.
  • gloss noun A shiny, polished surface.

Senses

glosa is used for these senses in English:

  • annotation A comment added to a text.
  • 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.

annotation — full definition

  1. noun A note added to a text, diagram or image to explain or comment on part of it.
  2. noun The act or process of adding such notes, or of labelling data so it can be searched or used to train software.
  3. noun In programming, a piece of metadata attached to code that tells a tool or framework how to treat it.

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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