0 past simple and past participle of gloss
1 to provide an explanation for a word or phrase:
2 to paint something with gloss paint:
They glossed the woodwork.
It is especially alert to inconsistencies or slippages, but also to places where disagreements are unconvincingly resolved or controversial issues are glossed over.
In both conditions the target words occurred three more times in the text after the first glossed occurrence.
The data (masterfully transcribed and glossed) and the presentation are characterized by remarkable clarity.
It is also true that the power of a notation lies in its ability to allow decisions to be glossed over or left locally undetermined.
Discussions about questions that have vexed historians of culture and resistance under dictatorships elsewhere, are glossed over.
These are usually glossed as unintelligible syllables if they are transcribed at all.
Important phases and aspects of selfhood are thus lost or glossed over without sufficient emphasis.
The discussions are in the main well illustrated with language examples, separated from the body of the text and adequately glossed.
