(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.
Monochrome
Definition:
(n.) A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samsung's ML2160 monochrome laser printer, for example, costs about £50.
(2) Less powerful image analyzers offer medium resolution, and typically work with monochrome data acquired from video cameras.
(3) To investigate whether erythemal responses to ultraviolet radiation alter with age, we have reviewed the results of monochromator phototesting in adults and children, and have measured the dose-response curves for UVB erythema in a further 38 subjects.
(4) We used a small oxygen electrode and a grating monochromator of 10 mmu half-band width to determine light-saturation curves of photosynthesis for films of Chlorella pyrenoidosa no more than 1 cell thick.
(5) In both cases short-term treatment with azathioprine achieved a marked clinical improvement, confirmed by testing with an irradiation monochromator.
(6) Compared to available filter wheel and chopper devices, the rapid scan monochromator has advantages of rapid and software-selectable wavelength control, excellent optical alignment, small size, and low cost.
(7) A single color image may replace the multiple monochrome density range pictures now used for portraying CT information.
(8) In stark monochrome, it shows a group of people striding purposefully up O’Connell Street, beneath a sky streaked by vapour trails and the Gate theatre in the background.
(9) Although I've learned to appreciate the grim beauty of murkiness, the washrag skies and mud so jealous it clings to every step, this emerald vision in the monochrome gloom is startling.
(10) Topical (0.1%) applications of 8-MOP followed by exposure to narrow bands from a monochromator in the range of 300-380 nm produced a dose-dependent inhibition of DNA synthesis.
(11) The decision to shoot in monochrome, which is all too often linked to a photographic nostalgia for the heady days of reportage, is fully justified here.
(12) Solutions of C-phycocyanin of very low concentrations were examined by sedimentation-velocity studies in the Spinco model E ultracentrifuge equipped with a photoelectric scanning system and a monochromator.
(13) With stylish monochrome graphics and frequently fiendish puzzles, it's a rewarding and original adventure.
(14) The resulting monochrome sketch-like aesthetic has the quality of a dream or nightmare where worlds are transparent and fragmented.
(15) A servo motor moved an optical fiber across the lower surface of the muscle to collect transmitted light, which then was passed through a grating monochromator and onto a photomultiplier for spatial measurements of scattering (SMS) and transmittance spectra.
(16) As test sites, unexposed skin on the upper back was selected for irradiation using a prism monochromator and a 1 kW xenon arc source.
(17) The advent of layered synthetic microstructures, used primarily as wide-bandpass X-ray monochromators, heralded a new era in the use of XSW to study biologically relevant structures with a length scale of the order of tens of Angströms.
(18) Measurements of the spectral emmissivity, epsilon (lambda), of human skin described in a previous paper were performed with a modified monochromator by comparing the radiation from the skin with blackbody radiation in the wavelength range between 2 and 14 mum.
(19) Thus an intensified monochrome video camera has been equipped with a synchronized color filter wheel, and the image displayed by multiplexing alternate lines to a red green blue (RGB) monitor.
(20) Dunham, who looked glamorous in a monochrome 50s-style floral dress by Erdem, was joined at the screening by co-stars Allison Williams, who plays her screen best friend Marnie Michaels, and Zosia Mamet (Shoshanna Shapiro) as well as long-time fan Richard E Grant, who guest stars in the coming series.