What's the difference between glaze and laze?

Glaze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To become glazed of glassy.
  • (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.

Laze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be lazy or idle.
  • (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 50 best beaches in the world Beaches are good for many things, and not just lazing on, as it happens.
  • (2) Dogs laze in the stifling afternoon heat of the Shire Valley.
  • (3) What feels new and fresh here isn't a threesome or a Grindr hook-up, but a scene where Agustín and his boyfriend are lazing on the sofa watching television.
  • (4) You can laze around beside a rooftop pool or dine at the outdoor (buffet) restaurant overlooking the beach.
  • (5) But lazing on the huge patio overlooking the ocean, well away from other buildings, will make you forget those inconveniences.
  • (6) Lazing in bed sets you back in this interminable rat race.
  • (7) Linger over brunch, join in a game of bocce (boules) or just laze by the fire pit.
  • (8) Next day we lazed on the city's sandy Catalans beach, just a few minutes from our hotel, the oh-so-Marseillaise Richelieu.
  • (9) Whitetip reef sharks laze ahead of their night-time feed, while mustard-yellow trumpetfish wriggle along past shoals of glittering bigeye jacks.
  • (10) "We are here for negotiations with Akhmetov," said Anton Kosenko, a self-styled MP of the Donetsk People's Republic, who was wearing a white suit and appeared to be in charge of a dozen fighters with automatic weapons and knives who were lazing on the grass outside the gates to Akhmetov's lavish residence.
  • (11) Hearing the drumbeat of the pro-marijuana lobby, you'd be excused if you believed the typical Jamaican was a Rastafarian pothead lazing on the beach amid the soporific sound of Bob Marley's One Love.
  • (12) Laze in the hammocks, splash about in your private pool or help yourself to fruit and veg from the garden and eggs from the free-range chickens.
  • (13) But the road was calling, just as it had done yesterday, when neither of us had wanted to leave Dar Ayniwen, a beautiful house in Marrakech's Palmeraie suburb, where we had lazed on the terrace and sipped gin and tonics as the call to prayer echoed through the dusk.
  • (14) While he was there, the editor of the university magazine, Clive James, published an early poem, but mostly Murray "lazed around and read the library.