Glaze vs Garnish - What's the difference?
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(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.
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.
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
* Spenser
(cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
To furnish; to supply.
(slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
Pewter vessels in general.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 478:
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
(slang, obsolete) Fetters.
(slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
As nouns the difference between glaze and garnish
is that glaze is the vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb) while garnish is a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.As verbs the difference between glaze and garnish
is that glaze is to install windows while garnish is to decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.glaze
English
Etymology 1
First attested in 1784 in reference to ice. From the verb.Noun
(en noun)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)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]Anagrams
* ----garnish
English
Verb
- All within with flowers was garnished .
- By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* garnishee * garnishment * garnishorNoun
(garnishes)- The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
- So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
- Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
- (Fielding)
