Glaze vs Gross - 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.
(US, slang) Disgusting.
Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
* 1874 : Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
* , chapter=12
, title= Great, large, bulky, or fat.
* 2013 , (Hilary Mantel), ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books , 35.IV:
Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful.
The whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
* Milton
Twelve dozen = 144.
The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
The bulk, the mass, the masses.
To earn money, not including expenses.
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As a noun glaze
is (ceramics) the vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing see (transitive verb).As a verb glaze
is to install windows.As a proper noun gross is
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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
* ----gross
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross . Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
- He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross .
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
Synonyms
* (disgusting) (l), (l), (l) * (fat) See alsoAntonyms
* fine * (total before any deductions) netNoun
(en-noun)Verb
(es)- The movie gross ed three million on the first weekend.
