English Dictionary

gloss

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡlɒs/

名詞

可算名詞 廃用 アメリカ英語

(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.

日本語の意味

注釈（文章中に補足的な説明や訳注を加える意味） / 解説（難解な語句や専門用語に対する簡潔な説明）

The scholar added a concise gloss beside the archaic phrase so students could understand its meaning.

その学者は、学生が意味を理解できるように、古風な表現のそばに簡潔な注釈を付け加えた。

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.

glosses （ plural ）