glaze
see also: Glaze
Etymology

From Middle English glasen, from glas (Modern English glass), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą.

The noun is from the verb.

Pronunciation Noun

glaze

  1. (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
  2. A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
  3. (meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.
  4. Any smooth, transparent layer or coating.
    • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
      […] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […]
  5. A smooth edible coating applied to food.
  6. (cooking) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
  7. A glazing oven; glost oven.
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glaze (glazes, present participle glazing; simple past and past participle glazed)

  1. (transitive) To install windows.
  2. (transitive) To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.
    to glaze a doughnut
  3. (intransitive) To become glazed or glassy.
  4. (intransitive) Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over.
  5. (transitive, intransitive, slang, derogatory) To compliment or praise someone excessively in a cringeworthy way.
    Synonyms: suck up, kiss ass, dickride, meatride
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Glaze
Proper noun
  1. Surname.



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