Glaze vs. Glass — What's the Difference?

A thin smooth shiny coating.

Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent amorphous solid, that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of the molten form; some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occurring.

A thin glassy coating of ice.

A hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles

A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing.

A drinking container made from glass

A coating, as of syrup, applied to food.

A lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens.

A transparent coating applied to the surface of a painting to modify the color tones.

A mirror

A glassy film, as one over the eyes.

Cover or enclose with glass

To fit, furnish, or secure with glass

(especially in hunting) scan (one's surroundings) with binoculars

To apply a glaze to

Hit (someone) in the face with a beer glass

To coat or cover thinly with ice.

Reflect as if in a mirror

To give a smooth lustrous surface to.

Any of a large class of materials with highly variable mechanical and optical properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization, are typically made by silicates fusing with boric oxide, aluminum oxide, or phosphorus pentoxide, are generally hard, brittle, and transparent or translucent, and are considered to be supercooled liquids rather than true solids.

To be or become glazed or glassy

A drinking vessel.

To form a glaze.

A mirror.

(ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb).

A barometer.

A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.

A window or windowpane.

A smooth edible coating applied to food.

The series of transparent plastic sheets that are secured vertically above the boards in many ice rinks.

(meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.

Glasses A pair of lenses mounted in a light frame, used to correct faulty vision or protect the eyes.

Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

Often glasses A binocular or field glass.

A glazing oven; glost oven.

A device, such as a monocle or spyglass, containing a lens or lenses and used as an aid to vision.

(transitive) To install windows.

The quantity contained by a drinking vessel; a glassful.

To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.

Objects made of glass; glassware.

(intransitive) To become glazed or glassy.

Made or consisting of glass.

(intransitive) For eyes to take on an uninterested appearance.

Fitted with panes of glass; glazed.

To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass.

To enclose or encase with glass.

To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like.

To put into a glass container.

To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.

To provide with glass or glass parts.

To cover (a donut, cupcake, meat, etc.) with a thin layer of edible syrup, or other substance which may solidify to a glossy coating. The material used for glazing is usually sweet or highly flavored.

To make glassy; glaze.

To become glazed of glassy.

To see reflected, as in a mirror.

Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

To reflect.

A glazing oven. See Glost oven.

To scan (a tract of land or forest, for example) with an optical instrument.

Any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods

To become glassy.

A glossy finish on a fabric

To use an optical instrument, as in looking for game.

Coating for fabrics, ceramics, metal, etc.

An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).

Coat with a glaze;

Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).

Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance;

(countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

Furnish with glass;

(metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

(uncountable) Glassware.

A mirror.

A magnifying glass or telescope.

(sport) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.

The backboard.

(ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.

A barometer.

Transparent or translucent.

(obsolete) An hourglass.

Lenses, considered collectively.

A pane of glass; a window (especially of a coach or similar vehicle).

(transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.

(transitive) To enclose in glass.

(transitive) fibreglass To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).

To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.

To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.

(transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.

(transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

To reflect; to mirror.

(transitive) To make glassy.

(intransitive) To become glassy.

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.

Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.

Anything made of glass.

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.

To case in glass.

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

A glass container for holding liquids while drinking

The quantity a glass will hold

A small refracting telescope

Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

A mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

Glassware collectively;

Furnish with glass;

Scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

Enclose with glass;

Put in a glass container

Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance;