glazing
The act or process of glazing or an instance thereofThe act or process of glazing or an instance thereof.
» Skylight glazing and automobile windshields typically use laminated glass.
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6 senses(countable, gerund, uncountable)The act or process of glazing or an instance thereof.
(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.
(countable, uncountable)The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material.
(countable, uncountable)All the windows of a building.
(countable, uncountable)The art of covering with a vitreous substance.
(countable, uncountable)Semi-transparent colours painted thinly over others to modify the effect.
Examples
3 sentencesSkylight glazing and automobile windshields typically use laminated glass.
What calm, now that we have double glazing!
How come this fucking apartment has no double-glazing? I'm freezing.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
Inherited from Middle English glasynge; equivalent to glaze + -ing.Inherited from Middle English glasynge; equivalent to glaze + -ing.
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Forms
plural: glazingsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.