GLAZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glazed mean? 

• GLAZED (adjective)
  The adjective GLAZED has 4 senses:

1. (used of eyes) lacking liveliness

2. fitted or covered with glass

3. having a shiny surface or coating

4. (of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture

  Familiarity information: GLAZED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLAZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used of eyes) lacking liveliness

Synonyms:

glassy; glazed

Context example:

his eyes were glazed over with boredom

Similar:

empty (holding or containing nothing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fitted or covered with glass

Synonyms:

glassed; glazed

Context example:

four glazed walls

Antonym:

unglazed (not furnished with glass)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having a shiny surface or coating

Synonyms:

glazed; shiny

Context example:

glazed doughnuts

Similar:

glassy; vitreous; vitrified ((of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it)

glass-like (resembling glass)

calendered; glossy ((of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers)

icy (shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice)

Antonym:

unglazed (not having a shiny coating)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture

Context example:

a glazed ham

Similar:

coated (having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

Her eyes glazed—she tottered—I thought that she would faint.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Horizontal tori are printed flat on a supporting glass slide, then glazed with nickel and platinum.

(Tiny swimming 'doughnuts' deliver the biomedical goods, National Science Foundation)

“By Jove, I’d take him on myself if my position was different,” said the Prince, whose face was growing redder and his eyes more glazed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My glazed eye wandered over the dim and misty landscape.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But his strength ebbed, his eyes glazed, and he knew nothing when the train was flagged and the two men threw him into the baggage car.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There lay the cabinet before their eyes in the quiet lamplight, a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth, the kettle singing its thin strain, a drawer or two open, papers neatly set forth on the business table, and nearer the fire, the things laid out for tea; the quietest room, you would have said, and, but for the glazed presses full of chemicals, the most commonplace that night in London.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You could be exposed to lead by: • Eating food or drinking water that contains lead • Working in a job where lead is used • Using lead in a hobby, such as making stained glass or lead-glazed pottery • Using folk remedies such as herbs or foods that contain lead

(Lead Poisoning, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry)

It is like tossing a bunch of glazed doughnuts in the air — roughly the same percentage of doughnuts always will be positioned in the edge-on and face-on positions, regardless of whether they are tightly clumped or spread far apart.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

On the walls there were some common coloured pictures, framed and glazed, of scripture subjects; such as I have never seen since in the hands of pedlars, without seeing the whole interior of Peggotty's brother's house again, at one view.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A few rich settles and bancals, choicely carved and decorated with glazed leather hangings of the sort termed or basane, completed the furniture of the apartment, save that at one side of the dais there stood a lofty perch, upon which a cast of three solemn Prussian gerfalcons sat, hooded and jesseled, as silent and motionless as the royal fowler who stood beside them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)