glaze

See also: glāze, glāzē, and Glaze

English

Etymology

From Middle English glasen, from glas (“glass”) (Modern English glass), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Related to glazen.

The noun is from the verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡleɪz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪz

Noun

glaze (countable and uncountable, plural glazes)

1. (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb).
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.

Derived terms

• alkaline glaze
• black glaze
• Bristol glaze
• confectioners' glaze
• confectioner's glaze
• glaze coat
• salt glaze
• star the glaze

 

Related terms

• glass
• glazier
• glazier's fallacy
• glazier's points
• glazier's putty
• glazing bar

Translations

coating on pottery

• Armenian: ջնարակ (hy) (ǰnarak)
• Belarusian: палі́ва f (palíva)
• Bulgarian: глазура (bg) f (glazura)
• Catalan: esmalt (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釉 (zh) (yòu)

• Czech: glazura (cs) f
• Danish: glasur (da) c
• Dutch: glazuur (nl) n
• Esperanto: glazuro
• Finnish: lasite (fi), lasitus (fi)
• French: glaçure (fr) f, émail (fr) m
• German: Glasur (de) f
• Hungarian: glazúr (hu), máz (hu)
• Ido: glezo (io), glezuro
• Japanese: 釉薬 (ja) (ゆうやく, yūyaku, うわぐすり, uwagusuri)
• Korean: 유약 (ko) (yuyak)
• Latvian: glazūra f
• Maori: kirimōhinu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: glasur m

  Nynorsk: glasur m

• Polish: glazura (pl) f, polewa (pl) f
• Portuguese: esmalte (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: глазу́рь (ru) f (glazúrʹ), мура́ва (ru) f (muráva) (dated), поли́ва (ru) f (políva)
• Slovak: glazúra f
• Spanish: esmalte (es) m, frita (es) f, vidriado (es) m
• Swedish: glasyr (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎔𐎒𐎂 (spsg)
• Ukrainian: поли́ва (uk) f (polýva), глазу́р f (hlazúr)

layer of paint

• Bulgarian: глеч (bg) f (gleč), гланц (bg) m (glanc)
• Czech: lazura f
• Danish: lasur c, lasurfarve c
• Dutch: lazuur (nl) n
• Esperanto: diafana farbo
• Finnish: lasuuri
• French: glacis (fr) m
• German: Lasur (de) f
• Hungarian: lazúr (hu)
• Portuguese: veladura f, velatura f
• Romanian: emailat (ro) m or n
• Russian: гля́нец (ru) m (gljánec)
• Slovak: lazúra f
• Spanish: veladura m, barniz (es) m
• Swedish: lasyr c

edible coating

• Armenian: ջնարակ (hy) (ǰnarak)
• Bulgarian: глазура (bg) f (glazura)
• Danish: glasur (da) c
• Dutch: glazuur (nl) n
• Esperanto: glazuro
• Finnish: lasite (fi)
• French: glaçage (fr) m
• Hungarian: glazúr (hu), máz (hu)
• Italian: glassa (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: glasur m

  Nynorsk: glasur m

• Polish: glazura (pl) f, polewa (pl) f
• Portuguese: glacê (pt) m
• Romanian: glazurat m or n
• Russian: глазу́рь (ru) f (glazúrʹ)
• Slovak: poleva f
• Spanish: glasé m, glaseado (es) m
• Swedish: glasyr (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

meteorology: smooth coating of ice caused by freezing rain

• Czech: ledovka (cs) f
• Dutch: ijzel (nl) m
• Finnish: iljanne (fi), kaljama (fi)
• French: givre (fr) m
• Galician: lazo (gl) m
• Georgian: ლიპყინული (liṗq̇inuli)
• German: Reif (de) m
• Italian: gelicidio (it) m
• Latvian: atkala f
• Russian: и́зморозь (ru) (ízmorozʹ)
• Slovak: poľadovica f
• Slovene: žled m
• Swedish: isskorpa c

reduced broth

• Bulgarian: глеч (bg) f (gleč)
• Finnish: lihahyytelö (fi)
• French: glaçage (fr) m

glazing oven

• Finnish: lasitusuuni
• Slovak: vypaľovacia pec f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} velatura (it)

Verb

glaze (third-person singular simple present glazes, present participle glazing, simple past and past participle glazed)

1. (transitive) To install windows.
2. (transitive, ceramics, painting) To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.
   • 2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London, Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:

     An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.

3. (intransitive) To become glazed or glassy.
4. (intransitive) For eyes to take on an uninterested appearance.
5. (intransitive, slang) To overcompliment, overpraise someone, to be overprotective about someone; to dickride, to meatride

Derived terms

• double-glaze
• glaze over
• glaze up

 

Translations

to install windows

• Bulgarian: остъклявам (ostǎkljavam)
• French: vitrer (fr)
• Irish: gloinigh
• Polish: szklić impf, oszklić pf
• Russian: застекли́ть (ru) (zasteklítʹ), остекли́ть (ru) (osteklítʹ) (colloquial)
• Slovak: zaskliť

to become glazed

• Bulgarian: глазирам (glaziram)
• Finnish: lasittua (fi), glaseerata (fi)
• Russian: остекли́ться (ru) (osteklítʹsja)

to apply a thin layer of coating

• Armenian: ջնարակել (hy) (ǰnarakel)
• Dutch: glazuren (nl)
• Esperanto: glazuri
• Finnish: lasittaa (fi)
• French: glacer (fr)
• German: glasieren (de)
• Ido: glacar (io)
• Spanish: velar (es), barnizar (es)

to apply a thin layer of coating in painting

• German: lasieren (de)
• Ido: glacar (io)
• Russian: лессирова́ть (ru) impf (lessirovátʹ), залессирова́ть pf (zalessirovátʹ)
• Spanish: barnizar (es)

to apply a thin layer of coating in ceramics

• Armenian: ջնարակել (hy) (ǰnarakel)
• Ido: glezar (io)
• Russian: глазирова́ть (ru) impf (glazirovátʹ), заглазирова́ть pf (zaglazirovátʹ)
• Spanish: vidriar (es)

characteristic change of eyes

• French: devenir virtreux
• Russian: стеклене́ть (ru) impf (steklenétʹ), остеклене́ть (ru) pf (osteklenétʹ)

to look without interest

• Russian: пя́литься (ru) impf (pjálitʹsja) (colloquial), пропя́литься pf (propjálitʹsja) (colloquial)

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]

Anagrams

• gazel

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣlaː.zə/

Verb

glaze

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of glazen