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GLAZE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coating for ceramics, metal, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("glaze" is a kind of...):

coating; finish; finishing (a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glaze"):

luster; lustre (a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain)

Derivation:

glaze (coat with a glaze)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A glossy finish on a fabric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("glaze" is a kind of...):

burnish; gloss; glossiness; polish (the property of being smooth and shiny)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("glaze" is a kind of...):

topping (a flavorful addition on top of a dish)

Derivation:

glaze (coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance

Example:

Her eyes glaze over when she is bored

Synonyms:

glass; glass over; glaze; glaze over

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "glaze" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coat with a glaze

Example:

glaze the bread with eggwhite

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "glaze" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Also:

glaze over (become glassy; lose clear vision)

Derivation:

glaze (a coating for ceramics, metal, etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Synonyms:

candy; glaze; sugarcoat

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "glaze" is one way to...):

dulcify; dulcorate; edulcorate; sweeten (make sweeter in taste)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

glaze (any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Furnish with glass

Example:

glass the windows

Synonyms:

glass; glaze

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "glaze" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "glaze"):

double-glaze (provide with two sheets of glass)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

glazier (someone who cuts flat glass to size)

Credits

 Context examples: 

On the walls there were some common coloured pictures, framed and glazed, of scripture subjects; such as I have never seen since in the hands of pedlars, without seeing the whole interior of Peggotty's brother's house again, at one view.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is like tossing a bunch of glazed doughnuts in the air — roughly the same percentage of doughnuts always will be positioned in the edge-on and face-on positions, regardless of whether they are tightly clumped or spread far apart.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

Every park has its beauty and its prospects; and Elizabeth saw much to be pleased with, though she could not be in such raptures as Mr. Collins expected the scene to inspire, and was but slightly affected by his enumeration of the windows in front of the house, and his relation of what the glazing altogether had originally cost Sir Lewis de Bourgh.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“By Jove, I’d take him on myself if my position was different,” said the Prince, whose face was growing redder and his eyes more glazed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Man and horse were down; they had slipped on the sheet of ice which glazed the causeway.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But it was so turned as to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on the roof, the fire sparkling in a hundred repetitions along the glazed front of the presses, and their own pale and fearful countenances stooping to look in.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Further, I say, that, if you will stay with me, I will teach you all the secrets of the glass-stainers' mystery: the pigments and their thickening, which will fuse into the glass and which will not, the furnace and the glazing—every trick and method you shall know.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At first I did not know to what room he had borne me; all was cloudy to my glazed sight: presently I felt the reviving warmth of a fire; for, summer as it was, I had become icy cold in my chamber.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A few rich settles and bancals, choicely carved and decorated with glazed leather hangings of the sort termed or basane, completed the furniture of the apartment, save that at one side of the dais there stood a lofty perch, upon which a cast of three solemn Prussian gerfalcons sat, hooded and jesseled, as silent and motionless as the royal fowler who stood beside them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a landscape in water colours, of which I had made a present to the superintendent, in acknowledgment of her obliging mediation with the committee on my behalf, and which she had framed and glazed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)