<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.</li><li>to give a vitreous surface or coating to (a ceramic or the like), as by the application of a substance or by fusion of the body.</li><li>to cover with a smooth, glossy surface or coating.</li><li>Cooking: to coat (a food) with sugar, a sugar syrup, or some other glossy, edible substance.</li><li>Fine Arts: to cover (a painted surface or parts of it) with a thin layer of transparent color in order to modify the tone.</li><li>to give a glassy surface to, as by polishing.</li><li>to give a coating of ice to (frozen food) by dipping in water.</li><li>to grind (cutlery blades) in preparation for finishing.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to become glazed or glassy: Their eyes glazed over as the lecturer droned on.</li><li>(of a grinding wheel) to lose abrasive quality through polishing of the surface from wear.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a smooth, glossy surface or coating.</li><li>the substance for producing such a coating.</li><li>Ceramics: a vitreous layer or coating on a piece of pottery.</li><li>the substance of which such a layer or coating is made.</li><li>Fine Arts: a thin layer of transparent color spread over a painted surface.</li><li>a smooth, lustrous surface on certain fabrics, produced by treating the material with a chemical and calendering.</li><li>Cooking: a substance used to coat a food, especially sugar or sugar syrup.</li><li>stock cooked down to a thin paste for applying to the surface of meats.</li><li>Also called glaze ice: a thin coating of ice on terrestrial objects, caused by rain that freezes on impact.</li></ul>