GLAZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glaze mean? 

• GLAZE (noun)
  The noun GLAZE has 3 senses:

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

2. a glossy finish on a fabric

3. a coating for ceramics, metal, etc.

  Familiarity information: GLAZE used as a noun is uncommon.

• GLAZE (verb)
  The verb GLAZE has 4 senses:

1. coat with a glaze

2. become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance

3. furnish with glass

4. coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

  Familiarity information: GLAZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLAZE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

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:

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)

• GLAZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they glaze    ... he / she / it glazes   
Past simple: glazed   
Past participle: glazed   
-ing form: glazing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coat with a glaze

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

glaze the bread with eggwhite

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 2

Meaning:

Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

glass; glass over; glaze; glaze over

Context example:

Her eyes glaze over when she is bored

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 3

Meaning:

Furnish with glass

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

glass; glaze

Context example:

glass the windows

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)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

candy; glaze; sugarcoat

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)

 Context examples 

Her eyes glazed—she tottered—I thought that she would faint.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your eyes are becoming set. They are glazing. My voice sounds faint and far. You cannot see my face.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Horizontal tori are printed flat on a supporting glass slide, then glazed with nickel and platinum.

(Tiny swimming 'doughnuts' deliver the biomedical goods, National Science Foundation)

He felt that his eye was glazing, his senses slipping from him, his grasp upon the reins relaxing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyelids still quivered, and it seemed to me, as my gaze met his glazing eyes, that I could read both recognition and surprise in them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My glazed eye wandered over the dim and misty landscape.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When he saw White Fang's eyes beginning to glaze, he knew beyond doubt that the fight was lost.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But his strength ebbed, his eyes glazed, and he knew nothing when the train was flagged and the two men threw him into the baggage car.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There lay the cabinet before their eyes in the quiet lamplight, a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth, the kettle singing its thin strain, a drawer or two open, papers neatly set forth on the business table, and nearer the fire, the things laid out for tea; the quietest room, you would have said, and, but for the glazed presses full of chemicals, the most commonplace that night in London.

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

You could be exposed to lead by: • Eating food or drinking water that contains lead • Working in a job where lead is used • Using lead in a hobby, such as making stained glass or lead-glazed pottery • Using folk remedies such as herbs or foods that contain lead

(Lead Poisoning, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry)