单词 | glaze |
释义 | glaze (once / 936 pages) nv The glaze on a doughnut is the thin sweet coating that makes your fingers sticky. The glaze on a coffee table is the shiny coating that makes it glossy. The glaze on your friend's eyes as you talk is a sign that maybe you're boring her. Like glass, a glaze is a shiny clear substance so it's no surprise that they both come from the same root word glas. Objects that have a glaze on them include ceramic pots and doughnuts. If you glaze over something, you're covering it with a thin clear substance that makes it look polished. If someone says your eyes are starting to glaze over, snap out of it and look alive. WORD FAMILYglaze: deglaze, glazed, glazer, glazes, glazier, glazing+/deglaze: deglazing/glazed: glazedly, unglazed/glazer: glazers/glazier: glaziers USAGE EXAMPLESIf you do, her eyes will glaze over and you won’t get anywhere. Salon(Dec 23, 2016) The part you need is called a glazing bead. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) But there’s one aspect of holiday ham, in all its retro glory, that I do miss: that sticky-sweet glaze. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) 1n a coating for ceramics, metal, etc. Hypo|Hyper luster, lustre a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain coating, finish, finishing a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) 2n any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods Hyper topping a flavorful addition on top of a dish 3n a glossy finish on a fabric Hyper burnish, gloss, glossiness, polish the property of being smooth and shiny 4v coat with a glaze the potter glazed the dishes glaze the bread with eggwhite Hyper coat, surface put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface 5v coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze Syn|Hyper candy, sugarcoat dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten make sweeter in taste 6v become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance Her eyes glaze over when she is bored Syn|Hyper glass, glass over, glaze over change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 7v furnish with glass Syn|Hypo|Hyper glass double-glaze provide with two sheets of glass furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to |
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