# Gloss

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**Gloss** may refer to:

## Text

- [Gloss (annotation)](/source/Gloss_(annotation)), an explanatory note in a text, such as: - [Interlinear gloss](/source/Interlinear_gloss), in linguistics and pedagogy - [Biblical gloss](/source/Biblical_gloss)
- [Glose](/source/Glose) or Gloss, a quatrain from a usually better known poem incorporated into a new poem

## Shininess

- [Gloss (optics)](/source/Gloss_(optics)), reflectivity of light on a surface
- [Gloss and matte paint](/source/Gloss_and_matte_paint), terms used for painted finishes
- [Lip gloss](/source/Lip_gloss)
- [Sickle-gloss](/source/Sickle-gloss), a silica residue found on blades

## Fiction

- [Gloss (character)](/source/Gloss_(character)), a fictional character who appeared in DC Comics' series *New Guardians*
- [*Gloss* (film)](/source/Gloss_(film)), a Russian satirical melodrama by Andrei Konchalovsky
- [*Gloss* (TV series)](/source/Gloss_(TV_series)), a New Zealand television drama, which ran from 1987 to 1990
- [Gloss](/source/List_of_Hunger_Games_characters#District_1), a minor character in *The Hunger Games*

## People

- [Hugo Gloss](/source/Hugo_Gloss) (born 1985), Brazilian journalist and presenter
- [Molly Gloss](/source/Molly_Gloss) (born 1944), American writer

## Other uses

- *[Dillon v. Gloss](/source/Dillon_v._Gloss)*, a 1921 U.S. constitutional court case
- [Global Sea Level Observing System](/source/Global_Sea_Level_Observing_System), an Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission program
- [G.L.O.S.S.](/source/G.L.O.S.S.), a punk band based in Olympia, Washington
- [GLOSS FM](/source/GLOSS_FM), an online radio station based in South Gloucestershire, UK

## See also

- [Glossa (disambiguation)](/source/Glossa_(disambiguation))

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