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Definition: GLOSSING |
GLOSSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Gloss |
Date "GLOSSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Whether they or their judges had any part in penning those laws which they assumed the liberty of interpreting and glossing upon at their pleasure |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Glossing over the fact that I don't send faxes, notice that the Democratic embargo against mentioning my name has been broken. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "GLOSSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GLOSSING" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glossing hair | 5 |
coating glossing material paper | 3 |
glossing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GLOSSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 上光 (Glossed). (various references) | |
Danish | glans-polering, glansbehandling. (various references) | |
Dutch | glanspolijsten, lustreren. (various references) | |
Finnish | peilikiillotus, loistokiillotus. (various references) | |
French | lustrage (glazing). (various references) | |
German | Glanzpolieren, Glaenzen (polishing), glänzend (brilliantly, brilliant, effulgently, gleaming, glossy, lustrous, refulgent, shiny, splendid), Lüstrage. (various references) | |
Greek | στίλβωση (polish), στίλβωμα (polishing), γυάλισμα (shine), λουστράρισμα (paintwork). (various references) | |
Italian | lustratura speculare, lustramento. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 糊塗 (covering up, glossing over), 奇麗事 (glossing over, whitewashing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きれいごと (fine skill, glossing over, simplicity, whitewashing), こと (ancient city, business, circumstances, covering up, experience, fact, former capital, glossing over, Koto, matter, reason, thing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ossingglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lustragem (glazing, polishing). (various references) | |
Spanish | lustrado (glazing), abrillantado (brightening, glazing, polishing). (various references) | |
Swedish | glanspolityr, glanspolering. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GLOSSING": reglossing. (additional references) | |
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"GLOSSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gleasing, Gluskin, lossing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: goslings. | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: gosling, losings. | |
-2 letters: gnosis, goings, losing, ogling, siglos, slings, soling. | |
-3 letters: gloss, going, gongs, lingo, lings, linos, lions, loins, longs, noggs, noils, signs, silos, sings, sling, slogs, snogs, soils, songs. | |
-4 letters: gigs, gins, gong, ions, ling, lino, lins, lion, logs, loin, long, loss, nils, nogg, nogs, noil, oils, sign, silo, sing, sins, slog, snog. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
+2 letters: reglossing. | |
+4 letters: engrossingly, folksingings, gangliosides, genealogists, glassblowing, glycogenesis, longshorings, lysogenising, obligingness. | |
+5 letters: angelologists, belongingness, glassblowings, gynecologists. | |
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