English Dictionary

gloss

/ɡlɒs/

noun

(countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.

I need to buy a new gloss for my lips.

意味（1）

(countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.

All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.

意味（2）

(countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.

意味（3）

(countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.

意味（4）

(countable) An extensive commentary on some text.

意味（5）

(countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.

This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a common law gloss on it.