glaze
/ɡleɪz/
glaze noun: the vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
Noun
glaze (countable and uncountable, plural glazes)
- The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
- A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
- A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.
- Any smooth, transparent layer or coating.
- […] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […]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
- A smooth edible coating applied to food.
- Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
- A glazing oven; glost oven.
- A window.
- Excessive complimenting or praise, especially in a cringeworthy way.
Verb
glaze (third-person singular simple present glazes, present participle glazing, simple past and past participle glazed)
- To install windows.
- To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.
- to glaze a doughnut
- An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.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
- To become glazed or glassy.
- Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over.
- To ejaculate onto someone's body.
- To compliment or praise excessively in a cringeworthy way.
Proper noun capitalized: Glaze
Glaze (plural Glazes)
- A surname.
glaze meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
glaze in Hindi
- ग्लेज़, ग्लेज़ करें
glaze in Tamil
- பளபளப்பாக்கு, பளிங்கூட்டு, மெருகிடு, மெருகிடல், படுந்து உறைந்த பனி, கண்ணாடிப் பூச்சு
glaze in Marathi
- ग्लेझ
glaze in Urdu
- شیشہ لگانا, شیشے کی تہہ جمانا
More languagesFewer languages
- glaze in Bengali
- কাঁচ লাগানো, চকচকে প্রলেপ দেওয়া, দৃষ্টিহীন, নিষ্প্রাণ হওয়া
- glaze in Telugu
- గ్లేజ్
- glaze in Malayalam
- തേച്ചുമിനുക്കുക, കണ്ണാടിയിടുക, മിനുസപ്പെടുത്തുക
- glaze in Kannada
- ಹೊಳಪುಕೊಡು, ಮೆರುಗು ಕೊಡು, ನುಣುಪಾಗಿಸು
- glaze in Punjabi
- ਗਲੇਜ਼, ਗਲੈਜ਼, ਗਲੇਜ਼ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- glaze in Gujarati
- લખોટવું lakhoṭvũ
- glaze in Odia
- ଗ୍ଲେଜ୍, ଗ୍ଲେଜ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ, ଗ୍ଲେଜ
- glaze in Nepali
- ग्लेज, ग्लेस, ग्लेज गर्न
Examples of glaze in a sentence
- Someone's eyes may glaze over before or during a seizure.
- The dark traces of the cracks in the crazed surface of the pot contrasted with the light glaze and were quite attractive.
- Start with the Monkey Bread: warm brioche twists with a bourbon walnut caramel glaze.
Synonyms of glaze
Forms of glaze
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | glazes |
| alternative form (obsolete) | glase |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | glazes |
| present participle | glazing |
| past participle | glazed |
| past | glazed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Glazes |
Origin of glaze
From Middle English glasen, from glas (“glass”) (Modern English glass), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Related to glazen. In the sense of "overcompliment", originated in November 2021 and popularized throughout 2022, and may suggest either the spattering of semen on the complimented person, following "the visual of a donut being glazed", or sugarcoating without sexual connotation. The noun is from the verb.
Words formed from glaze
Phrases with glaze
Words that rhyme with glaze
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
- delays
Questions about glaze
- What does glaze mean?
- Glaze means the vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
- What is glaze in Hindi?
- Glaze in Hindi is ग्लेज़, ग्लेज़ करें. See Glaze meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is glaze?
- Glaze can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce glaze?
- Glaze is pronounced /ɡleɪz/.
- What is the plural of glaze?
- The plural of glaze is glazes.
Words near glaze in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: glaze (page history and authors); Glaze (page history and authors); glaze (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); glaze (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glaze (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); glaze (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Glaze (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glaze (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); glaze (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glaze (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glaze (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); લખોટવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); glaze (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); glaze (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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