(n.) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
(v. t.) A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(2) Many ceramists advocate polishing, rather than glazing, to control the surface luster of metal ceramic restorations.
(3) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(4) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(5) Don't glaze over, look at these figures: if one parent is working full-time on the minimum wage taking home £346 a week, when the other gets a full-time job, their income generally only improves by £29 for her five days at work.
(6) If your eyes are glazed over like mine, this is what it’s like to be on the floor of the United States Senate,” he said.
(7) A sample of black material removed from the back wall was analysed with a scanning electron microscope and was found to be similar to black pigment found by the Louvre in brown glazes on the Mona Lisa and the painting St John the Baptist, the team said.
(8) In a community of potters in Barbados where lead glazes traditionally have been used, a survey of 12 potters, 19 of their family members, and 24 controls revealed elevated blood lead levels in the potters, their family members, and the neighbours who used pottery for culinary purposes.
(9) A study of the biaxial flexure strengths of polished vs. glazed specimens is needed to verify that current laboratory methods are appropriate for planned fatigue studies.
(10) The value of a procedure for polishing porcelain restorations that would avoid the necessity of glazing in a furnace following minor chairside adjustments is discussed.
(11) Glazed and roughened porcelain surfaces were evaluated.
(12) Glazed eyes, sporadic rapid eye movements and muscle twitches were also present.
(13) The glaze resin (Ketac-Glaze) was painted with a brush over the GI surface and cured with visible light (Demetron) for thirty seconds.
(14) Boston cream doughnuts Thick vanilla custard and a chocolate glaze: these are the foundations of the Boston Cream pie.
(15) This study evaluated the changes in vertical dimension after natural glazing and polishing procedures.
(16) Porcelain-bonded-to-metal shades remained stable after six glazings and changed only slightly after nine firings.
(17) That’s not necessarily a problem in itself, but our laws are letting far too many of those guns fall into the wrong hands,” said Glaze, setting the scene for the groups’ digital efforts.
(18) "There are many things consumers buy on a regular basis, substantial purchases where disputes routinely arise – for example, installing double-glazing – where £5,000 wouldn't cover the value of a typical claim but which could fall within this increased bracket.
(19) hold; group four was fired, polished, and not glazed.
(20) This study (1) measured the comparative tensile bond strengths of brackets bonded directly in vitro to both glazed and deglazed porcelains by the use of five adhesive systems, and (2) recorded failure sites.
Glimpse
Definition:
(n.) A sudden flash; transient luster.
(n.) A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.
(n.) A faint idea; an inkling.
(v. i.) to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.
(v. t.) To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has another brief glimpse of goal as a deep cross finds him stretching at the back post, but it was just that — a glimpse.
(2) Many elements of the set had been spun out of background glimpses from the film, references you'd only register after an unhealthy number of viewings.
(3) From Stranraer to Stornaway there is a fair chance every primary school child in the country will catch a glimpse of their heroine's gold medal at some stage, like it or not.
(4) She believes her explorations – of their vanities, their blindnesses, their cruelties, of the brief moments in which they attain goodness, or glimpse a kind of realistic, unselfish love – to be of urgent importance.
(5) OKCupid knows how likely you are to put out on the first date , the NSA knows you eat a lot of quinoa, and all 962 of your Facebook friends have caught a glimpse of you in an ill-advised bikini.
(6) December’s unprecedented fifth MLS Cup was the Galaxy’s third in four seasons, and despite the unedifying nature of the final itself – a 2-1 win over the New England Revolution – it did, in glimpses, illustrate some of the strengths of the team.
(7) As a result, we talk about the issues and get a glimpse of each other's perspectives, into the bargain.
(8) Carney arrived at Threadneedle Street by tube shortly before 7am, ahead of most camera crews and photographers hoping to catch a glimpse of the governor feted as the rock star of central banking.
(9) And now glimpse those two old foxes, Andreotti and Mitterrand, getting together at a hotel outside Maastricht on the evening before the December 1991 summit, to work out over dinner how they will pin Kohl down to a timetable for a monetary union that was clearly intended to bind a newly (and, for them, alarmingly) united Germany into a tighter European framework.
(10) In Chicago before a crowd both relieved and delighted, he spoke with a force, clarity and determination that had scarcely been glimpsed in the 2012 campaign.
(11) It was not just a fantastic sporting occasion but a glimpse of a more noble Britain: a country learning to be at ease with disability, and passionately, generously, committed to a vision of equality of opportunity.
(12) May 28, 2014 Other players have looked livelier tonight for sure, and he's taken one too many touches on occasion, but there was a glimpse of Altidore's value in his hold up play just now.
(13) This was a tantalising glimpse of the future, with Mata pulling the strings in the middle.
(14) As my sister continues to grow emotionally and socially, I get a glimpse of the confident young woman - perhaps even a fully functioning member of society - that I hope one day she will become.
(15) This English translation permits a rare glimpse into the early medical thinking on prostatic diseases.
(16) Quite literally, in the credit sequences of Father Knows Best and Beulah , sitcoms of middle-class family life where the fences – they didn't exist around most suburban houses – can be glimpsed.
(17) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
(18) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(19) I was giving them a glimpse into my exclusive lifestyle.
(20) Comment boxes across the planet boiled over with fury at the first glimpse of John Boyega removing his helmet.