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Dazzle vs Glaze - What's the difference?

dazzle | glaze |

In lang=en terms the difference between dazzle and glaze

is that dazzle is to be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness while glaze is for eyes to take on an uninterested appearance.

As verbs the difference between dazzle and glaze

is that dazzle is to confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness while glaze is to install windows.

As nouns the difference between dazzle and glaze

is that dazzle is a light of dazzling brilliancy while glaze is (ceramics) the vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing see (transitive verb).

dazzle

English

Verb

(dazzl)
  • To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
  • Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
  • * Milton
  • Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.
  • * Sir H. Taylor
  • An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.
  • (figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
  • The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
  • To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle .
  • * Dryden
  • I dare not trust these eyes; / They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.

    Derived terms

    * dazzler * dazzlement

    Noun

    (s)
  • A light of dazzling brilliancy.
  • (uncommon) A herd of zebra.
  • * 1958', Laurens Van der Post, ''The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory'' (' 1998 David Coulson edition):
  • We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly
  • * 2009 , Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts , page 176:
  • Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt,
  • * 2010 , Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa , page 22:
  • I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.

    Synonyms

    * herd

    glaze

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested in 1784 in reference to ice. From the verb.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See (transitive verb).
  • A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
  • An edible coating applied to food.
  • (meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice
  • Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
  • A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
  • Etymology 2

    From Middle English glasen'' ("to fit with glass"). Either a continuation of an unattested Old English weak verb ''*glæsan'', or coined in Middle English as a compound of ''glas'' and ''-en (standard infinitive suffix). Probably influenced in Modern English by glazen.

    Verb

    (glaz)
  • To install windows.
  • (transitive, ceramics, painting) To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.
  • *
  • To become glazed or glassy.
  • For eyes to take on an uninterested appearance.
  • References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001]

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