a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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, especially 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 rime1( def 1 ).
Origin: 1325–75;Middle Englishglasen, derivative of glasglass
Related forms
glaz·i·ly, adverb
glaz·i·ness, noun
re·glaze, verb (used with object), re·glazed, re·glaz·ing.
mid-14c., glasen "to fit with glass," from glas (see glass), probably infl. by glazier (late 14c.). Noun sense of "substance used to make a glossy coating" is first attested 1784.
mod. alcohol intoxicated. : She has had too much. She's glazed drunk.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
By brushing tops of rings with beaten yolk of egg diluted with one teaspoonful water, they will have a glazed appearance.
Thousands of portraits of him appear on walls and in glazed mosaic tiles on concrete plaques.
The rare, precious stuff is kept in the glazed drawers of museum cabinets.
Glazed collectors also can be used to heat domestic hot water year-round.
Decorate as desired, or serve with citrus-glazed fruit and whipped cream.
Wine-glazed sausages with watercress potatoes and sauerkraut.
Thanks to steel-reinforced walls and double-glazed windows, the silence inside is absolute.
It was going to make everything better, and slowly it would claim employees in glazed-eyed conversions.
Next to it are large glazed ceramic bowls of premeasured ingredients for stuffing, aka pudding.
Diners will find many sides, such as mashed potatoes, glazed carrots and salad and a dessert table.