| 单词 | glaze |
| 释义 | glaze —glazily, adv. —glaziness, n. /glayz/, v. , glazed, glazing, n. v.t. 1. to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window. 2. to give a vitreous surface or coating to (a ceramic or the like), as by the application of a substance or by fusion of the body. 3. to cover with a smooth, glossy surface or coating. 4. Cookery. to coat (a food) with sugar, a sugar syrup, or some other glossy, edible substance. 5. Fine Arts. to cover (a painted surface or parts of it) with a thin layer of transparent color in order to modify the tone. 6. to give a glassy surface to, as by polishing. 7. to give a coating of ice to (frozen food) by dipping in water. 8. to grind (cutlery blades) in preparation for finishing. v.i. 9. to become glazed or glassy: Their eyes glazed over as the lecturer droned on. 10. (of a grinding wheel) to lose abrasive quality through polishing of the surface from wear. n. 11. a smooth, glossy surface or coating. 12. the substance for producing such a coating. 13. Ceram. a. a vitreous layer or coating on a piece of pottery. b. the substance of which such a layer or coating is made. 14. Fine Arts. a thin layer of transparent color spread over a painted surface. 15. a smooth, lustrous surface on certain fabrics, produced by treating the material with a chemical and calendering. 16. Cookery. a. a substance used to coat a food, esp. sugar or sugar syrup. b. stock cooked down to a thin paste for applying to the surface of meats. 17. Also called glaze ice, silver frost, silver thaw, verglas; esp. Brit., glazed frost. a thin coating of ice on terrestrial objects, caused by rain that freezes on impact. Cf. rime1 (def. 1). [1325-75; ME glasen, deriv. of glas GLASS] |
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