finish vs gloss

finish

noun
  • A finishing touch; careful elaboration; polish. 

  • The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth. 

  • A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal. 

  • A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces. 

  • An end; the end of anything. 

verb
  • To reach orgasm. 

  • To complete (something). 

  • To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal. 

  • To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar). 

  • To put an end to; to destroy. 

  • To come to an end. 

gloss

noun
  • A surface shine or luster. 

  • A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance. 

  • A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text. 

  • An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law. 

  • An extensive commentary on some text. 

  • A glossary; a collection of such notes. 

verb
  • To give a gloss or sheen to. 

  • To make (something) attractive by deception 

  • Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”). 

  • To add a gloss to (a text). 

  • To become shiny. 

How often have the words finish and gloss occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )