gloss
verb/ɡlɒs/
/ɡlɑːs/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they gloss | /ɡlɒs/ /ɡlɑːs/ |
| he / she / it glosses | /ˈɡlɒsɪz/ /ˈɡlɑːsɪz/ |
| past simple glossed | /ɡlɒst/ /ɡlɑːst/ |
| past participle glossed | /ɡlɒst/ /ɡlɑːst/ |
| -ing form glossing | /ˈɡlɒsɪŋ/ /ˈɡlɑːsɪŋ/ |
- gloss something (as something) to add a note or comment to a piece of writing to explain a difficult word or ideaTopics Literature and writingc2Word Origingloss over something. mid 16th cent.: of unknown origin. verb mid 16th cent.: alteration of the noun gloze, from Old French glose ‘a gloss, comment’, suggested by medieval Latin glossa ‘explanation of a difficult word’, from Greek glōssa ‘word needing explanation, language, tongue’.
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