The first English glosses were English words written in Latin religious texts to explain what the Latin meant to the English monks who were supposed to be studying the texts.
Billed as an "invitation to join the government of Britain", the manifesto glosses over how the guests will pay for cutting the deficit.
According to the Oxford English dictionary a glossary is a collection of glosses, so Urbandictionary got that backwards.
The move would also have a huge economic cost, a problem that Mr Wu quite happily glosses over.
But that glosses over a long-term structural problem which makes them more of a burden than a benefit to the national economy.
When I first started translating, I had very little confidence, so I made a lot of reference to dictionary glosses and was probably much too conservative in my choices.
Sharing lipsticks, lip glosses or lip balms with someone who may have a strain of the herpes virus could leave you with cold sores of your own.
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