gloss over something

Examples of glossing

glossing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

How effective are input modifications such as glossing?
Reasons for glossing women's talk about social relationships as 'gossip' rather than 'visiting', and the outcomes of doing so, are explored below.
There is an important aspect of the film sequence, however, that the preceding discussion risks glossing over.
He does this without in any way glossing over its complex structure or evolving character.
The extreme version of direct translation is glossing, since glosses are essentially a direct translation of an entire text.
Some use them only in the course of glossing what is taking place in transcripts, implying that their significance and relevance are almost self-evident.
As a result, regional and countryspecific analysis was de-emphasised, at the risk of glossing over both connections and differences in the region.
The scribes of two of these manuscripts, or the singers glossing them, were not sure how to sing this chant.
A second line of investigation has been the relative effectiveness of different forms of multimedia glossing.
Computer-aided instruction has provided an alternative to marginal text glossing.
It contains the glossing together of lived experiences into a typical image, but retains a bit of its diacritical possibilities as well.
Its early histories tended to pin the blame on either of the parties involved in the conflict, thereby glossing over its many complexities.
The concise nature of this book limits it to glossing over some of these.
Computerassisted reading: the effect of glossing format on comprehension and vocabulary retention.
Glossing in incidental and intentional learning of foreign language vocabulary and reading.
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