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glaze

[gleyz]

verb, glazed, glaz⋅ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.

2.	to give a vitreous surface or coating to (a ceramic or the like), as by the application of a substance or by fusion of the body.

3.	to cover with a smooth, glossy surface or coating.

4.	Cookery. to coat (a food) with sugar, a sugar syrup, or some other glossy, edible substance.

5.	Fine Arts. to cover (a painted surface or parts of it) with a thin layer of transparent color in order to modify the tone.

6.	to give a glassy surface to, as by polishing.

7.	to give a coating of ice to (frozen food) by dipping in water.

8.	to grind (cutlery blades) in preparation for finishing.

–verb (used without object)

9.	to become glazed or glassy: Their eyes glazed over as the lecturer droned on.

10.	(of a grinding wheel) to lose abrasive quality through polishing of the surface from wear.

–noun

11.	a smooth, glossy surface or coating.

12.	the substance for producing such a coating.

13.

Ceramics.

a.	a vitreous layer or coating on a piece of pottery.

b.	the substance of which such a layer or coating is made.

14.	Fine Arts. a thin layer of transparent color spread over a painted surface.

15.	a smooth, lustrous surface on certain fabrics, produced by treating the material with a chemical and calendering.

16.

Cookery.

a.	a substance used to coat a food, esp. sugar or sugar syrup.

b.	stock cooked down to a thin paste for applying to the surface of meats.

17.	Also called glaze ice, silver frost, silver thaw, verglas; especially British, glazed frost. a thin coating of ice on terrestrial objects, caused by rain that freezes on impact. Compare rime ¹ (def. 1).

Origin:
1325–75; ME glasen, deriv. of glas glass

Related forms:

glaz⋅i⋅ly, adverb

glaz⋅i⋅ness, noun

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glaze (glāz)

A thin smooth shiny coating.
A thin glassy coating of ice.
1. A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing.
2. A coating, as of syrup, applied to food.
3. A transparent coating applied to the surface of a painting to modify the color tones.
A glassy film, as one over the eyes.

v. glazed, glaz·ing, glaz·es

v. tr.

To fit, furnish, or secure with glass: glaze a window.
To apply a glaze to: glaze a doughnut; glaze pottery.
To coat or cover thinly with ice.
To give a smooth lustrous surface to.

v. intr.

To be or become glazed or glassy: His eyes glazed over from boredom.
To form a glaze.

[From Middle English glasen, from glas, glass, from Old English glæs; see ghel-² in Indo-European roots.]
glaz'er n.

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Glaze

Glaze\, v. i. To become glazed of glassy.

Glaze

Glaze\, n. 1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. --Ure.

2. (Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven.

Language Translation for : glaze

Spanish: poner cristales,

German: mit Glasscheiben versehen, verglasen,

Japanese: ガラスをはめる

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glaze (v.)

1362, glasen "to fit with glass," from glas (see glass), probably infl. by glazier (1385). Noun sense of "substance used to make a glossy coating" is first attested 1784.

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