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Gloss (transliteration), Glosses
Gloss may refer to: Text *Gloss (annotation), an explanatory note in a text, such as: **Interlinear gloss, in linguistics and pedagogy **Biblical gloss *Glose or Gloss, a quatrain from a usually better known poem incorporated into a new poem Shininess *Gloss (optics), reflectivity of light on a surface *Gloss and matte paint, terms used for painted finishes *Lip gloss *Sickle-gloss, a silica residue found on blades Fiction *Gloss (character), a fictional character who appeared in DC Comics' series ''New Guardians'' *Gloss (film), ''Gloss'' (film), a Russian satirical melodrama by Andrei Konchalovsky *Gloss (TV series), ''Gloss'' (TV series), a New Zealand television drama, which ran from 1987 to 1990 *List of Hunger Games characters#District 1, Gloss, a minor character in ''The Hunger Games'' People *Hugo Gloss (born 1985), Brazilian journalist and presenter *Molly Gloss (born 1944), American writer Other uses *''Dillon v. Gloss'', a 1921 U.S. constitutional court case *Global ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloss (annotation)
A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal one or an interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is different. A collection of glosses is a ''glossary.'' A collection of medieval legal glosses, made by glossators, is called an ''apparatus''. The compilation of glosses into glossaries was the beginning of lexicography, and the glossaries so compiled were in fact the first dictionaries. In modern times a glossary, as opposed to a dictionary, is typically found in a text as an appendix of specialized terms that the typical reader may find unfamiliar. Also, satirical explanations of words and events are called glosses. The German Romantic movement used the expression of gloss for poems commenting on a given other piece of poetry, often in the Spanish style. Glosses were originally notes made in the margin or between the lines of a text in a classical language; the meaning of a wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
