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ALL meanings of glazing

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  • noun glazing a smooth, glossy surface or coating. 1
  • noun glazing the substance for producing such a coating. 1
  • noun glazing Ceramics. a vitreous layer or coating on a piece of pottery. the substance of which such a layer or coating is made. 1
  • noun glazing Fine Arts. a thin layer of transparent color spread over a painted surface. 1
  • noun glazing a smooth, lustrous surface on certain fabrics, produced by treating the material with a chemical and calendering. 1
  • noun glazing Cookery. a substance used to coat a food, especially sugar or sugar syrup. stock cooked down to a thin paste for applying to the surface of meats. 1
  • noun glazing 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). 1
  • verb with object glazing to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window. 1
  • verb with object glazing 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. 1
  • verb with object glazing to cover with a smooth, glossy surface or coating. 1
  • verb with object glazing Cookery. to coat (a food) with sugar, a sugar syrup, or some other glossy, edible substance. 1
  • verb with object glazing Fine Arts. to cover (a painted surface or parts of it) with a thin layer of transparent color in order to modify the tone. 1
  • verb with object glazing to give a glassy surface to, as by polishing. 1
  • verb with object glazing to give a coating of ice to (frozen food) by dipping in water. 1
  • verb with object glazing to grind (cutlery blades) in preparation for finishing. 1
  • verb without object glazing to become glazed or glassy: Their eyes glazed over as the lecturer droned on. 1
  • verb without object glazing (of a grinding wheel) to lose abrasive quality through polishing of the surface from wear. 1
  • noun glazing The action of installing windows. 1
  • noun glazing fitting glass, windows 1
  • noun glazing art: painting thinly 1
  • noun glazing ceramics: applying glaze 1
  • noun glazing The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material. 0
  • noun glazing (architecture) All the windows of a building. 0
  • verb glazing present participle of glaze. 0
  • noun glazing the surface of a glazed object 0
  • noun glazing glass fitted, or to be fitted, in a door, frame, etc 0
  • noun glazing the work of a glazier in fitting windows, etc. with glass 0
  • noun glazing glass set or to be set in frames 0
  • noun glazing a glaze or application of a glaze 0
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