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Laze vs Glaze - What's the difference?

laze | glaze |

As verbs the difference between laze and glaze

is that laze is while glaze is to install windows.

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).

laze

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(-)
  • Laziness.
  • An instance of lazing.

    • Verb

  • To be lazy, waste time.
  • To pass time relaxing.
    • The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
    Synonyms
    * idle * loaf * take it easy
    Derived terms
    * laze about * laze around * lazy

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
    • See also
    * vog

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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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