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Glaze vs Glow - What's the difference?

glaze | glow |

In lang=en terms the difference between glaze and glow

is that glaze is for eyes to take on an uninterested appearance while glow is to feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc; to burn.

As nouns the difference between glaze and glow

is that glaze is (ceramics) the vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing see (transitive verb) while glow is the state of a glowing object.

As verbs the difference between glaze and glow

is that glaze is to install windows while glow is to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

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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    glow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  • To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  • * Dryden
  • With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .
  • To gaze especially passionately at something.
  • To radiate thermal heat.
  • To shine brightly and steadily.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • To make hot; to flush.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
  • To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  • * Addison
  • Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
  • * John Gay
  • The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of a glowing object.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
  • The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
  • The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  • The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
  • He had a bright red glow on his face.

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