Glaze vs Polar - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between glaze and polar

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 polar is .

As a verb glaze

is to install windows.

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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polar

English

Adjective

(-)

of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole)

of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles

(chemistry) having a dipole; ionic

(mathematics) of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle

(linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes'' and ''no .

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