Bright vs Gloss - What's the difference?
bright | gloss |
Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
*Sir (Francis Drake) (c.1540-1596)
*:The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright .
* (1800-1859)
*:The public places were as bright as at noonday.
*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
*:The sun was bright o'erhead.
Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
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* Episode 16
*:—Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn't teach in a school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he added with a half laugh.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Vivid, colourful, brilliant.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
Happy, in (soplink).
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*1937 , , (The Hobbit) , Ch.11:
*:Their spirits had risen a little at the discovery of the path, but now they sank into their boots; and yet they would not give it up and go away. The hobbit was no longer much brighter than the dwarves. He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face and stare.
Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Be bright and jovial among your guests.
Illustrious; glorious.
*(Charles Cotton) (1630-1687)
*:the brightest annals of a female reign
Clear; transparent.
*(James Thomson) (1700-1748)
*:From the brightest wines / He'd turn abhorrent.
(lb) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
*:with brighter evidence, and with surer success
An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
(obsolete) splendour; brightness
* Milton
(neologism) A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.
* {{quote-news, date = 2003-06-20
, title = The future looks bright
, first = Richard
, last = Dawkins
, authorlink = Richard Dawkins
, newspaper = (The Guardian)
, issn = 0261-3077
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jun/21/society.richarddawkins
, passage = Brights' constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are ' brights .
}}
* {{quote-book, date = 2006-02-02
, title = Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon
, first = Daniel C.
, last = Dennett
, authorlink = Daniel C. Dennett
, location = New York
, publisher = Viking
, isbn = 9780670034727
, ol = 3421576M
, page = 27
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=yWtwDDqR61QC&pg=PA27&dq=brights
, passage = Many of us brights' have devoted considerable time and energy at some point in our lives to looking at the arguments for and against the existence of God, and many ' brights continue to pursue these issues, hacking away vigorously at the arguments of believers as if they were trying to refute a rival scientific theory.
}}
* {{quote-book, date = 2008-03-17
, title = The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism Is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness
, first = David
, last = Aikman
, location = Carol Stream
, publisher = Tyndale House Publishers
, isbn = 9781414317083
, ol = 24967138M
, page = 28
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=zn6XkS-4BJcC&pg=PA28&dq=brights
, passage = Dawkins has received appreciative letters from people who were formerly what he derisively calls "faith-heads" who have abandoned their delusions and come over to the side of the brights , the pleasant green pastures where clear-eyed, brave, bold, and supremely brainy atheists graze contentedly.
}}
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(uncountable) A surface shine or luster/lustre
(uncountable, figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
* Goldsmith
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]
To give a gloss or sheen to.
To make (something) attractive by deception
* Philips
To become shiny.
(countable) A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.
(countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression, usually inserted in the margin or between lines of a text.
* Hudibras
(countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
(countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
(rfv-sense) (countable) A deliberately misleading explanation.
(countable) A brief explanation in speech or in a written work, including a synonym used with the intent of indicating the meaning of the word to which it is applied
(countable, legal, US) An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law
* 2007 Bruce R. Hopkins. The law of tax-exempt organizations.
* 1979 American Bar Foundation. Annotated code of professional responsibility .
As a proper noun bright
is .As a noun gloss is
(uncountable) a surface shine or luster/lustre or gloss can be (countable) a foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.As a verb gloss is
to give a gloss or sheen to or gloss can be to add a gloss to (a text).bright
English
Adjective
(er)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* * brighten * bright-eyed * bright-eyed and bushy-tailed * brightness * bright side * bright young thing * brightwork * eyebrightSee also
* (Brights movement)Noun
(en noun)- Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear.
Antonyms
* (non-supernaturalist) (neologism) super, supernaturalistHyponyms
* (non-supernaturalist) atheistStatistics
* 1000 English basic wordsgloss
English
Etymology 1
From a Germanic language, perhaps (etyl), (etyl) or (etyl) (compare ).Noun
- To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One native charm than all the gloss of art.
- Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
Synonyms
* (surface shine ): brilliance, gleam, luster/lustre, sheen, shine * (superficially or deceptively attractive appearance ): , front, veneerVerb
(es)- You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.
Synonyms
* (give a gloss or sheen to ): polish, shine * (make (something) attractive by deception ): * (become shiny ):Etymology 2
From .Noun
(wikipedia gloss) (es)- All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.
- (Dryden)
p. 76
- Judicial Gloss on Test [section title]
p. ix
- This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.