Synonyms of the word

gloss

• n. A surface shine or luster/lustre.
• n. (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
• v. (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception.
• v. (intransitive) To become shiny.
• n. (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex,…
• n. (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
• n. (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
• n. (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
• n. (countable) A brief explanation in speech or in a written work, including a synonym used with the intent…
• n. (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.
• v. (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).

account

• n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
• n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
• n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
• n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
• n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
• n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
• n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• n. An authorization to use a service.
• n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• n. Profit; advantage.
• v. to provide explanation.
• v. to count.

annotate

• v. To add annotation.

apologise

• v. (British spelling) Alternative form of apologize.

apologize

• v. (intransitive, often followed by “for”) To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense,…
• v. (intransitive) To express regret that a certain event has occurred.
• v. (intransitive) (dated) To make an apology or defense; to act as apologist.

appearance

• n. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
• n. A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
• n. Personal presence; look; aspect; mien.
• n. Apparent likeness; external show; how something appears to others.
• n. (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed…
• n. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before…
• n. (law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court…
• n. (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.

burnish

• v. (transitive) To make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine.
• v. (intransitive) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out;…

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

comment

• n. A spoken remark.
• n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
• v. (transitive) To remark.
• v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

effulgence

• n. A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.

excuse

• v. (transitive) To forgive; to pardon.
• v. (transitive) To allow to leave.
• v. (transitive) To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.
• v. To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment.
• n. (law) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which…
• n. (with negative adjective prepositioned, especially sorry or poor) An example.

explanation

• n. The act or process of explaining.
• n. Something that explains, makes understandable.
• n. (euphemistic) An excuse, apologetic justification not based on enough evidence.

glossary

• n. A list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with their definitions.

glossiness

• n. The state of being glossy.

interpret

• v. To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms…
• v. To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation.
• v. (intransitive) To act as an interpreter.

justify

• v. (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
• v. (transitive) To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all…
• v. (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
• v. To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
• v. (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject…
• v. (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.

polish

• n. A substance used to polish.
• n. Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
• n. Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
• v. (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
• v. (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.
• v. (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.
• v. (intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
• v. (transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

radiance

• n. the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid.
• n. (physics) the flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a…

radiancy

• n. The property of being radiant.
• n. (physics) The amount of energy emitted, flux.

rationalise

• v. (British spelling) alternative spelling of rationalize.

rationalize

• v. To make something rational or more rational.
• v. To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable…
• v. (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
• v. To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles…

rede

• n. (archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
• n. (archaic) Decision, a plan.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To govern, protect.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To discuss, deliberate.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To advise.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.

refulgence

• n. the quality of being refulgent; refulgency.

refulgency

• n. The property of being refulgent.

render

• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
• v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
• v. (transitive) To pass down.
• v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
• v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
• v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
• v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
• v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
• v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
• v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
• v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
• v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
• n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
• n. (obsolete) A surrender.
• n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
• n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
• n. One who rends.

rubric

• n. A heading in a book highlighted in red.
• n. A title of a category or a class.
• n. An established rule or custom, a guideline.
• n. (education) A printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
• adj. Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
• adj. Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.
• v. (transitive) To adorn with red; to redden.

semblance

• n. likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
• n. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

shine

• v. (intransitive) To emit light.
• v. (intransitive) To reflect light.
• v. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
• v. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
• v. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
• v. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
• v. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
• v. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
• v. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
• n. Brightness from a source of light.
• n. Brightness from reflected light.
• n. Excellence in quality or appearance.
• n. Shoeshine.
• n. Sunshine.
• n. (slang) Moonshine.
• n. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
• n. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
• n. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
• v. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

smooth

• adj. Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
• adj. Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
• adj. Bland; glib.
• adj. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
• adj. (of a person) Suave; sophisticated.
• adj. (of an action) Natural; unconstrained.
• adj. (of a motion) Unbroken.
• adj. (chiefly of water) Placid, calm.
• adj. (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
• adj. (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
• adj. (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
• adj. (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s…
• adj. (mathematics, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers.
• adj. (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration.
• adj. (of muscles, medicine) Involuntary and non-striated.
• adv. Smoothly.
• n. Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
• n. A smoothing action.
• n. A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
• n. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
• n. (statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
• v. To make smooth or even.
• v. To make straightforward.
• v. (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving…

smoothen

• v. To make smooth.
• v. To become smooth.

smoothness

• n. The condition of being smooth.

translate

• v. (transitive) To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another.
• v. (intransitive) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language.
• v. (transitive) To change from one form or medium to another.
• v. (intransitive) To change from one form or medium to another.
• v. (transitive, physics) To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To transfer, to move from one place or position to another.
• v. (transitive, Christianity) To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
• v. (transitive, Christianity) To transfer a bishop from one see to another.
• v. (transitive, Christianity) To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection.
• v. (transitive, music) To rearrange a song from one genre to another.
• v. (medicine) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.
• v. (genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
• n. (analysis, in Euclidean spaces) A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point…

wordbook

• n. A dictionary or other reference book that lists words; a lexicon, vocabulary.
• n. The libretto of an opera.