# glazing

Pronunciation: say "GLAY-zing" /ˈɡleɪzɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of glaze. — present participle and gerund of glaze
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of glaze. Use it after "is" or "are", or as the name of the action.
   - _The crew finished glazing the north side of the tower on Friday._
   - _The baker was glazing the pastries with warm apricot jam._

## Noun

2. The panes of glass or other see-through material set into a window or wall.
   - Simple: The glass or clear plastic that fills a window or part of a wall.
   - _Hail shattered the glazing on the greenhouse roof._
   - _The museum's new wing uses tinted glazing to shield the paintings from sunlight._
3. The act or process of applying a glaze to something or fitting it with glass, or one instance of the work.
   - Simple: The work of putting a shiny coat or glass on something, or one time that work is done.
   - _The glazing of the pots takes place after their first firing._
   - _Glazing of the new school should be finished before winter arrives._
4. The material applied when glazing something; a glaze.
   - Simple: The material used to glaze something, such as a shiny coating.
   - _Scrape off every bit of cracked glazing before you set the new pane._
   - _The ham came out of the oven with a sticky brown-sugar glazing._
5. The art of covering objects with a glassy, vitreous coating.
   - Simple: The skill of covering things, like pots, with a shiny coat that is like glass.
   - _The workshop covers the basics of throwing, trimming and glazing._
   - _Glazing is a craft that can take a potter years to master._
6. In architecture, all the windows of a building considered as a whole.
   - Simple: All the windows of a building, taken together.
   - _The architect placed most of the glazing on the south side to catch the winter sun._
   - _The tower's glazing reflects the sky so well that the building almost disappears._
7. Semi-transparent colors painted thinly over others to change their effect.
   - Simple: Thin paint you can partly see through, put over other colors to change how they look.
   - _A thin glazing of red over the shadows gave the faces a soft glow._
   - _The restorer removed later glazings that had dulled the original colors._

## Origin

Inherited from Middle English glasynge; equivalent to glaze + -ing.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/glazing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).