| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  glôs, gl s |
| NOUN: | 1a. A brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or technical expression usually inserted in the margin or between lines of a text or manuscript. b. A collection of such notes; a glossary. 2. An extensive commentary, often accompanying a text or publication. 3. A purposefully misleading interpretation or explanation. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: glossed, gloss·ing, gloss·es
1. To provide (an expression or a text) with a gloss or glosses. 2. To give a false interpretation to. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English glose, from Old French, from Medieval Latin gl sa, from Latin glssa, foreign word requiring explanation, from Greek, tongue, language. | | OTHER FORMS: | gloss er —NOUN
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