glazing

Pluralglazings (some meanings)

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of glaze. Use it after "is" or "are", or as the name of the action.

   She is glazing the donuts with sugar icing.

   My eyes kept glazing over during the long meeting.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The glass or clear plastic that fills a window or part of a wall.

   A baseball cracked the glazing in our front door.

   The glazing on this bus stop is made of strong plastic.

   Similarglass

3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The work of putting a shiny coat or glass on something, or one time that work is done.

   The glazing took longer than the baking.

   Each glazing adds another shiny layer to the bowl.

4. 4
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The material used to glaze something, such as a shiny coating.

   The baker brushed a sweet glazing over the rolls.

   Old glazing was crumbling around the edge of the window.

   Similarcoating

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5. 5
   noununcountable

   The skill of covering things, like pots, with a shiny coat that is like glass.

   She is taking a class in glazing at the art center.

   Glazing is the part of making pots that needs the most patience.

6. 6
   noununcountable

   All the windows of a building, taken together.

   The glazing of the new library lets in lots of light.

   Workers washed all the glazing on the school before it opened.

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7. 7
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Thin paint you can partly see through, put over other colors to change how they look.

   The artist added a yellow glazing to make the sky look warmer.

   She painted the sea with several glazings of blue and green.

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