What is the difference between glaze and glass?

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In transitive terms the difference between glaze and glass

is that glaze is to install windows while glass is to enclose with glass.

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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.

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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English

(wikipedia glass)

Noun

(lb) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.

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A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass .

(lb) Glassware.

A mirror.

A magnifying glass or telescope.

(lb) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.

# The backboard.

#(lb) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.

A barometer.

*(Louis MacNeice) (1907-1963)

*:The glass is falling hour by hour.

Transparent or translucent.

(lb) An hourglass.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:She would not live / The running of one glass .

Derived terms

* carnival glass * cheval glass * eyeglasses * glassblower * glassblowing * glasses * glassformer * glass frog * glasshouse * glass jaw * glassless * glassmaker * glassware * glasswork * glassworker * glassy * isinglass * looking glass * magnifying glass * spyglass

Descendants

* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),

Verb

(es)

To furnish with glass; to glaze.

(Boyle)

To enclose with glass.

(Shakespeare)

To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.

* 1987, John Godber, Bouncers p. 19:

JUDD. Any trouble last night?

LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed .

* 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale p. 72:

I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed , or viciously assaulted.

* 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp p. 139:

One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.

(label) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.

* 2012 , Halo: First Strike, p. 190:

*:“The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.

To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.

* 2000 , Ben D. Mahaffey, 50 Years of Hunting and Fishing , page 95:

Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.

To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

(archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.

* Motley

Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.

* Byron

Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.

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