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Definition: Glazed |
GlazedAdjective1. Used of eyes lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom". 2. Fitted or covered with glass; "four glazed walls". 3. Having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts". 4. (of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture; "glazed doughnuts"; "a glazed ham". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glazed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: GlazedSynonyms: glassed (adj), glassy (adj), shiny (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unglazed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ostentation | Cry up; (praise); proner, flaunt, emblazon, prink, set off, mount, have framed and glazed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | (1) color slide shows a single glazed donut. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
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| "Christmas ham" by Wendy Cain Commentary: "A big smoked ham roasted, then glazed with pineapple and a glaze of port, cinamon and pineapple juice." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Otto Von Bismarck | Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her head struck the head of the bed and fell forward on her breast, the mouth gaping, the eyes open and glazed. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And the flames licked up around the meat and hardened and glazed the surfaces |
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Business | The domestic market is saturated with low quality ceramic building bricks and glazed ceramic tiles (HS 6904, 6905, 6907, 6908). The production and sale of glazed ceramic tile squares is slowing down, while the production of middle and top level of solid and hollow ceramic building bricks (and marble as well) is increasing. (references) | |
Very good sales prospects exist for products under Harmonized System (HS) codes 69.08.00, 84.81.00, 44.07.00, 31.14.00, and 83.02.00. These products include glazed ceramic flags and paving, plumbing fittings and faucets, wood sawn or chipped, putty, caulking compounds, painters’ fillings, builders’ hardware and fittings, veneer sheets, indoor walls and floors. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | Other materials benefiting from WTO sponsored reform will be glazed ceramic tiles, sanitary cement, fiberglass, and cement equipment. (references) |
Greece | Glazed ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles, swan or chipped, sliced or peeled wood, painters fillings and faucets, indoor wall and floor materials and all types of door and window fittings and plumbing and bathroom hardware are among the most promising products to be imported to Greece. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Glazed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.80% of the time. "Glazed" is used about 452 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.8% | 433 | 13,273 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 2.43% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 1.77% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 452 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glazed": glazed brick ♦ glazed frost ♦ glazed inspection hole ♦ glazed paper ♦ glazed tile ♦ glazed yarn ♦ have framed and glazed. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "glazed": glazed-brick, glazed-cotton, glazed-eyed, glazed-eyes, glazed-looking. | |
Ending with "glazed": half-glazed, horn-glazed, single-glazed, tin-glazed, triple-glazed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "glazed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me xham, me glazurë. (various references) | |
Arabic | مصقول (brushed up, buffed, burnished, cultivated, furbished, glossed, lustered, polished, refined, scoured, smooth, smoothed, suave), لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гланциран (lustrous, satin), остъклен, оцъклен (glassy), желиран (jellied), емайлиран. (various references) | |
Chinese | 上釉 (Enameled, Enameling, enamelled, Enamelling, Glazing). (various references) | |
Czech | zasklený, vyhaslý (burnt-out, dead, extinct), skelný (glassy, hyaline, vitreous), pohaslý, hlazený. (various references) | |
Danish | glittet (supercalendered), satineret (supercalendered), højglittet (supercalendered). (various references) | |
Dutch | gesatineerd (pearl, satin etched, supercalendered). (various references) | |
Finnish | kiiltopintainen (glossy). (various references) | |
French | vitrée, vitré, satiné, lustré (glossy). (various references) | |
German | glasierte, glasiert (enamelled, glace, glazes, iced), verglaste (vitrified), verglast (glassed, glazes, paned), satiniert (satined, satins). (various references) | |
Greek | στιλβωμένο (supercalendered), στιλπνό (bright, granité, supercalendered), γυαλισμένο (supercalendered). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזוגג (frosted, glace). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mázas (enamelled). (various references) | |
Italian | satinato (granité, pearl, satin etched, supercalendered). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 行平鍋 (glazed earthenware casserole dish), 染め付け (blue glazed china, dyeing), ガラス障子 (glazed sliding door). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そめつけ (blue glazed china, dyeing), ゆきひらなべ (glazed earthenware casserole dish), ガラスしょうじ (glazed sliding door). (various references) | |
Manx | glonnit, gloasit (glossed, polished, shone), fo glonney. (various references) | |
Norwegian | glassaktig. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | azedglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vítreo (glassy, glazy, vitreous), lustroso (beady, glace, glazy, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth, spick and span, splendent), esmaltado (besprent), envidraçado, envernizado (protective lacquered), acetinado (glossy, lustrous, satiny, sericeous, silky). (various references) | |
Romanian | lustruit (glossy, lustrous, polished, sleek, varnish). (various references) | |
Russian | глазированный (glace). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glaziran. (various references) | |
Spanish | vidriado (glaze, glazing), satinado (pressing, satin, satiny). (various references) | |
Swedish | glansig (glossy, lustrous). (various references) | |
Turkish | sırlı, pürüzsüz (clean-cut, fluently, glabrous, glare, sleek, smooth), cilalı (finished, polished), camlı (hyaloid, vitreous), cam kaplı, cam gibi (glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, vitreous), cam (glass, glazing, peeper, vitreous, window). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тьмяний (crepuscular, dim, dingy, dull, glaucous, glazy, lacklustre, obscure, opaque, sad, wan, waterish), глазурований (frosted, glace, iced), засклений, лощений (nitid). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "glazed": deglazed, reglazed, unglazed. (additional references) | |
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"Glazed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gazeds, glaced, glaed, glaise, glaised, Glaize, glamed, glamzed, glasey, glawed, glazedly, glazet, Glazyev, glize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glazed" (pronounced glā"zd) |
| 4 | -l ā" z d | blazed. |
| 3 | -ā" z d | amazed, appraised, braised, crazed, dazed, fazed, gazed, grazed, phased, phrased, praised, raised, razed, reappraised, unfazed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-z" | |
-1 letter: gazed, glade, glaze, lazed. | |
-2 letters: adze, aged, dale, daze, deal, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gaze, geld, glad, gled, lade, laze, lead, zeal. | |
-3 letters: adz, age, ale, dag, dal, del, eld, gad, gae, gal, ged, gel, lad, lag, lea, led, leg, lez, zag, zed. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ag, al, de, ed, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-z" | |
+1 letter: deglaze. | |
+2 letters: deglazed, deglazes, reglazed, unglazed. | |
+3 letters: deglazing, legalized. | |
+4 letters: analogized, anglicized, apologized, bedazzling, digitalize, gallicized, galvanized, glamorized, globalized, idealizing, signalized, sloganized, underglaze, vulgarized. | |
+5 letters: allegorized, burglarized, deglamorize, diagonalize, digitalized, digitalizes, evangelized, feudalizing, gelatinized, generalized, glamourized, illegalized, plagiarized, polygamized, regularized, underglazes. | |
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