Definitions for glazes

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glazes glaze

Spelling: [gleyz]

IPA: /gleɪz/

Glazes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in glazes (aeglsz).

Definitions for glazes

noun

1. a smooth, glossy surface or coating.
2. the substance for producing such a coating.
3. Ceramics. a vitreous layer or coating on a piece of pottery. the substance of which such a layer or coating is made.
4. Fine Arts. a thin layer of transparent color spread over a painted surface.
5. a smooth, lustrous surface on certain fabrics, produced by treating the material with a chemical and calendering.
6. 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.
7. 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).

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or fill with glass:
2. 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.
3. to cover with a smooth, glossy surface or coating.
4. Cookery. to coat (a food) with sugar, a sugar syrup, or some other glossy, edible substance.
5. Fine Arts. to cover (a painted surface or parts of it) with a thin layer of transparent color in order to modify the tone.
6. to give a glassy surface to, as by polishing.
7. to give a coating of ice to (frozen food) by dipping in water.
8. to grind (cutlery blades) in preparation for finishing.

verb (used without object)

1. to become glazed or glassy:
2. (of a grinding wheel) to lose abrasive quality through polishing of the surface from wear.

Origin of glazes

1325-75; Middle English glasen, derivative of glas glass

Examples for glazes

Consider it a cosmic lesson in exploring the intricacies of circumstance that you often glaze over.

Reduce the finished sauce down to the consistency of a glaze and season.

When nearly cooked, brush them with a little milk or white of egg to glaze them.

Brush them over with a little white of egg or milk to glaze them.

If there is no soup of course you make it with a piece of glaze.

Skim the stock and reduce it to a glaze to cover the sweetbreads.

“The scorecard is designed to give them a clear sense of where members of Congress stand,” glaze says.

Then glaze them all over with egg, and sprinkle them with bread-crumbs.

Cover the grill and cook about seven minutes for the glaze to set and begin to brown a little.

The symbolism of a gun-control group grading members of Congress for the first time is a display of power in itself, glaze says.