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Definition of Glaze
1. Noun. Any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods.
2. Verb. Coat with a glaze. "Glaze the bread with eggwhite"
3. Noun. A glossy finish on a fabric.
4. Verb. Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance. "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"
5. Noun. A coating for ceramics, metal, etc..
6. Verb. Furnish with glass. "Glass the windows"
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Specialized synonyms: Double-glaze
Derivative terms: Glass, Glazier
7. Verb. Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze.
Definition of Glaze
1. v. t. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass.
2. v. i. To become glazed of glassy.
3. n. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze,
Definition of Glaze
1. Noun. (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb). ¹
2. Noun. A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint. ¹
3. Noun. (meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice ¹
4. Noun. Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes. ¹
5. Noun. A glazing oven. See Glost oven. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To install windows ¹
7. Verb. (intransitive) To become glazed or glassy. ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) In painting, to apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glaze
1. to fit windows with glass panes [v GLAZED, GLAZING, GLAZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glaze
Literary usage of Glaze
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beginnings of Porcelain in China by Berthold Laufer, Henry Windsor Nichols (1917)
"We may safely conclude that this glaze was made by adding pulverized limestone
... The modern Chinese glaze for porcelain is made by mixing lime with one of ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"(a) Very silicious clay covered with a lead vitreous glaze. ... glaze is a thin
coating of glass, evenly fused over the surface of a clay vessel to make it ..."
3. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"Fritted glaze is much more uniform than raw, and there is no tendency to ...
In all kinds of glazed ware, it is very essential that the glaze and body shall ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Broadly speaking, the coefficient of expansion of a glaze should be that of the
underlying ... If, on cooling, the glaze contracts much more than the body, ..."
5. China: Its History, Arts and Literature by Frank Brinkley (1902)
"But the glaze was everything. On its lustre, solidity, and tone the whole beauty
of the specimen depended. To make it perfectly colourless and translucid, ..."
6. A Handbook of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1872)
"It is necessary that this glaze should melt readily at the ten i which the ...
TM glaze is added to the porcelain mass with a flux, so that the melting may ..."
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