Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Glasswork.
  • noun Glass set or made to be set in frames.
  • noun A glaze.
  • noun The act or process of applying a glaze.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In leather manufacturing, the process of rolling leather with a glass roller in order to give it a bright finish; also, less commonly, the light application with a sponge of a solution which when dry gives to the leather its final luster.
  • noun The act or art of Setting glass; the craft of a glazier.
  • noun Glasswork; the glass of windows.
  • noun The application to a piece of pottery or porcelain of the glaze which is to cover it.
  • noun In ceramics, same as glaze, 1.
  • noun In oil-painting, the operation of spreading a thin layer of transparent color with the brush or the fingers, or with the palm of the hand, over those parts of a picture whose tone it is desirable to modify.
  • noun In gunpowder-manuf., the operation of breaking off the angular projections of the grains, and giving them a round, smooth, glossy surface, performed in a glazing-barrel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.
  • noun The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.
  • noun The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid.
  • noun (Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of glaze.
  • noun The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material
  • noun architecture All the windows of a building

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Examples

  • The new technique in glazing soon spread beyond the azulejos used for the churches and monasteries.

    Talavera - Mexico's earthly legacy from the City Of Angels 2006

  • The new technique in glazing soon spread beyond the azulejos used for the churches and monasteries.

    Talavera - Mexico's earthly legacy from the City Of Angels 2006

  • Here in the states the normal insulated glass infill for RESIDENTIAL overhead glazing is a 1 "overall unit with the inboard lite (inside) as a 7/32" laminated (safety glass per code) and the outboard (outside) lite is a 1/4 "tinted low-e .... (low-emissivity glass is factory coated with metallic coating (the human eye can not see it) and it reflects the long wave of the light spectrum - aka - radiant heat.

    Glass Block Skylights 2006

  • Here in the states the normal insulated glass infill for RESIDENTIAL overhead glazing is a 1 "overall unit with the inboard lite (inside) as a 7/32" laminated (safety glass per code) and the outboard (outside) lite is a 1/4 "tinted low-e .... (low-emissivity glass is factory coated with metallic coating (the human eye can not see it) and it reflects the long wave of the light spectrum - aka - radiant heat.

    Glass Block Skylights 2006

  • Here in the states the normal insulated glass infill for RESIDENTIAL overhead glazing is a 1 "overall unit with the inboard lite (inside) as a 7/32" laminated (safety glass per code) and the outboard (outside) lite is a 1/4 "tinted low-e .... (low-emissivity glass is factory coated with metallic coating (the human eye can not see it) and it reflects the long wave of the light spectrum - aka - radiant heat.

    Glass Block Skylights 2006

  • Here in the states the normal insulated glass infill for RESIDENTIAL overhead glazing is a 1 "overall unit with the inboard lite (inside) as a 7/32" laminated (safety glass per code) and the outboard (outside) lite is a 1/4 "tinted low-e .... (low-emissivity glass is factory coated with metallic coating (the human eye can not see it) and it reflects the long wave of the light spectrum - aka - radiant heat.

    Glass Block Skylights 2006

  • Here in the states the normal insulated glass infill for RESIDENTIAL overhead glazing is a 1 "overall unit with the inboard lite (inside) as a 7/32" laminated (safety glass per code) and the outboard (outside) lite is a 1/4 "tinted low-e .... (low-emissivity glass is factory coated with metallic coating (the human eye can not see it) and it reflects the long wave of the light spectrum - aka - radiant heat.

    Glass Block Skylights 2006

  • Here in the states the normal insulated glass infill for RESIDENTIAL overhead glazing is a 1 "overall unit with the inboard lite (inside) as a 7/32" laminated (safety glass per code) and the outboard (outside) lite is a 1/4 "tinted low-e .... (low-emissivity glass is factory coated with metallic coating (the human eye can not see it) and it reflects the long wave of the light spectrum - aka - radiant heat.

    Glass Block Skylights 2006

  • Here in the states the normal insulated glass infill for RESIDENTIAL overhead glazing is a 1 "overall unit with the inboard lite (inside) as a 7/32" laminated (safety glass per code) and the outboard (outside) lite is a 1/4 "tinted low-e .... (low-emissivity glass is factory coated with metallic coating (the human eye can not see it) and it reflects the long wave of the light spectrum - aka - radiant heat.

    Glass Block Skylights 2006

  • Here in the states the normal insulated glass infill for RESIDENTIAL overhead glazing is a 1 "overall unit with the inboard lite (inside) as a 7/32" laminated (safety glass per code) and the outboard (outside) lite is a 1/4 "tinted low-e .... (low-emissivity glass is factory coated with metallic coating (the human eye can not see it) and it reflects the long wave of the light spectrum - aka - radiant heat.

    Glass Block Skylights 2006

  • Sycophancy, also called glazing, occurs when a large language model learns to align its responses excessively with the user's point of view, even when that standpoint is objectively false, unethical, or harmful.

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