Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, gerund, uncountable)The act or process of glazing or an instance thereof.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The material used in such act or process; glaze.

    Before new glazier's putty can be applied, the various bits of old glazing must be scraped off.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material.

  4. (countable, uncountable)All the windows of a building.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The art of covering with a vitreous substance.

  6. (countable, uncountable)Semi-transparent colours painted thinly over others to modify the effect.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Skylight glazing and automobile windshields typically use laminated glass.

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  2. What calm, now that we have double glazing!

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  3. How come this fucking apartment has no double-glazing? I'm freezing.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Inherited from Middle English glasynge; equivalent to glaze + -ing.

Inherited from Middle English glasynge; equivalent to glaze + -ing.

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Forms

plural: glazings
Singularglazing
Pluralglazings

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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