gloss

gloss has 19 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.
• n.. A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.
• v. t.. To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth.
• n.. A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.
• n.. An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary.
• n.. A false or specious explanation.
• v. t.. To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.
• v. t.. To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
• v. i.. To make comments; to comment; to explain.
• v. i.. To make sly remarks, or insinuations.
• pl.. of Glossa
• n.. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"