gloss

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
My favorite thing about this gloss is the high shine factor without stickiness …. these four new shades are pretty and natural looking as well.

View all »
Definitions (40)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (12)

  1. noun A surface shininess or luster.
  2. noun A cosmetic that adds shine or luster.
  3. noun A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
9 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (14)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (6)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (8)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • She is part of the team that makes sure the artist's rendering on the computer matches the actual product from the printer, including foil, gloss, and ink color. —  Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
  • The view from above starts with a high-gloss, hard plastic at the front, moves into a matte strip in the center with embossed "Dell" and "Adamo" logos, which in turns leads into a smooth, brushed metal slab, and finally ends up at the back with yet another strip of dotted metal. —  Engadget
  • Isabelle Skin Sunkissed Makeup 6, totally stunning dressed up make up with this one, the gloss is superb and the eye make up is charismatic., this set has again the wonderful sculpted work, with long sleeve jacket or sleeveless versions with the adorable necktie. —  Fashion World of SL
  • The trip will now lose some gloss, and may even be postponed, because Teresa, the organiser, is sleeping among rats and roaches in a secret location. —  politics101malaysia
  • The first 40 pages are printed on the typical high-gloss, weighty graphic novel pages and the back half of the book is on white, more rough, plain paper. —  this woman's work
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 160 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

lipstick ·  sheen ·  mascara ·  lustre ·  luster ·  smoothness ·  blush ·  varnish ·  eyeshadow ·  makeup ·  glaze ·  complexion

Used in the same contextWord Family

gloss:   glossed
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (6)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Icelandic glossi, a spark; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English glose, from Old French, from Medieval Latin glōsa, from Latin glōssa, foreign word requiring explanation, from Greek, tongue, language.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (4)

  1. Not in Middle English; from Icelandic glossi, a blaze (cf. glys, finery, = Old Danish glis, glimmer), = Swedish dial. glåsa, a glowing, dawning, becoming light, = Middle High German glose, a glow, gleam; with the verb Swedish dial. glossa, glow, shine, = Middle Low German glosen = Middle High German glosen, also glosten, German dial. glosten, glow, shine; an extension, with verb-formative -s, of Icelandic glōa = Swedish Danish glo = English glow: see glow. In the fig. sense (def. 2) the word blends with gloss, 3.
  2. from gloss, n.
  3. In Middle English glose (see gloze); the modern English gloss is directly from the Late Latin glossa (Middle Latin also glosa), an obsolete or foreign difficult word requiring explanation, later applied to the explanation itself, from Greek γλῶσσ, σ1α, Attic γλῶττα, the tongue, a tongue or language, an obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation.
  4. In ME.glosen (see gloze, v.); from Middle Latin glossare (also glosare), gloss, explain, from LL.glossa, a gloss: see gloss, n. In the fig. use (def. 2), the word touches gloss, v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/glɑs/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a month.

Recently looked up

irrelevancy · Shayla · al-Kurd · Prov · narcoleptic

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Glockenspiel · Ersatz · Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid · Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe · Der Kottbusser Postkutscher putzt den Kottbusser Postkutschkasten