gloss
noun/ɡlɒs/
/ɡlɑːs/
- [uncountable, singular] a shine on a smooth surface
- paper with a high gloss on one side
- The gel gives your hair a gloss.
- You can have the photos with either a gloss or a matt finish.
- Use over your favourite lipstick to add extra gloss.
Extra Examples- We used a gel to add gloss to her hair.
- Your hair has lost its natural gloss.
- furniture with a dark gloss finish
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clear
- high
- lip
- …
- add
- lose
- finish
- paint
- [uncountable] (often in compounds) a substance designed to make something shiny
- lip gloss
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clear
- high
- lip
- …
- add
- lose
- finish
- paint
- (also gloss paint)[uncountable] paint which, when dry, has a hard shiny surface
- two coats of gloss
- [uncountable, singular] an attractive appearance that is only on the surface and hides what is not so attractive
- Beneath the gloss of success was a tragic private life.
- This scandal has taken the gloss off the occasion.
- [countable] gloss (on something) a way of explaining something to make it seem more attractive or acceptable
- The director puts a Hollywood gloss on the civil war.
- [countable] gloss (on something) a note or comment added to a piece of writing to explain a difficult word or phrase
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 5 mid 16th cent.: of unknown origin. noun sense 6 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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