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Encase vs Glaze - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between encase and glaze

is that encase is to enclose, as in a case while glaze is to install windows.

As a noun glaze is

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

encase

English

Alternative forms

* incase

Verb

(encas)
  • To enclose, as in a case.
  • *1918 , Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe :
    • They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.

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    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.
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  • 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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