0 a smooth, shiny appearance on the surface of something: --
1 an explanation for a word or phrase: --
Difficult expressions are explained in the glosses at the bottom of the page.
2 to provide an explanation for a word or phrase: --
3 to paint something with gloss paint: --
They glossed the woodwork.
5 an explanation of a word or phrase in a text --
The scribes of two of these manuscripts, or the singers glossing them, were not sure how to sing this chant.
One could fill up a library with writings in many languages which are basically ingenious and ingenuous glosses on these three ideas.
As a result, regional and countryspecific analysis was de-emphasised, at the risk of glossing over both connections and differences in the region.
Nevertheless, notes which are more than glosses need organisation and point...
Thoroughly glossed so as to maximize accessibility and impact, these graphics create cultural texture.
The former is based on simple binary systems of oppositions and can be glossed as the preserve of autonomy.
The extreme version of direct translation is glossing, since glosses are essentially a direct translation of an entire text.
I here use "reason" in a broad sense that glosses over the distinction.