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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In silk-manuf., an operation of twisting the hanks of silk, after dyeing, and when perfectly dry.
- noun In leather manufacturing, the rubbing of virtually finished leather with a solution which gives it a final luster.
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- verb Present participle of
gloss .
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Examples
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The superficiality is downright dangerous, I think, in glossing over the fact that you can suppress theistic religion and end up with worse racism — c.f. anti-semitism in Soviet Russia — because atheistic ideologies can function in exactly the same way to create exactly the same type of “bad thinking”.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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The very people who could be counted on to slow the public down and (try to) make them reasonable about the complex identity of a Tiger Woods or a Halle Berry, suddenly had a personal stake in glossing over the complexity of Obama's identity.
SeeLight: 2008
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Taking the life of a game animal is no small thing, and I fail to see the merit in glossing over that fact Well said.
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The very people who could be counted on to slow the public down and (try to) make them reasonable about the complex identity of a Tiger Woods or a Halle Berry, suddenly had a personal stake in glossing over the complexity of Obama's identity.
Obama Cartoon 2008
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Taking the life of a game animal is no small thing, and I fail to see the merit in glossing over that fact.)
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You also said, "and I fail to see the merit in glossing over that fact.)"
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And the reason is that it's kind of glossing over the details.
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I knew there was a certain amount of "glossing" over the facts a bit, but I couldn't find that finite fact that explained why most people in the field regard electromagnetism basically a "non-essential" for lack of a better term.
A Prototype Detector for Dark Matter in the Milky Way | Universe Today 2009
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Mbeki has faced heavy criticism from opposition political parties and Aids activists for "glossing" over the issue of HIV and
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I loved his honesty about the different situations, as I much prefer honesty over any kind of glossing over, but I feel like some of the people in his book were painted in a rather negative light that wasn't necessary to the telling of their story.
The Good Human 2010
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Soon she was exploring the idea of glossing, a written notation system used to transcribe sign language, indicating not just the vocabulary but also the facial expressions, fingerspelling, pointing and other modes of communication that don’t exist in spoken languages.
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