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Glazer

Definition: Glazer

Glazer

Noun

1. Someone who cuts flat glass to size.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Glazer

DomainDefinitions

Occupations

Operates machine to coat items, such as candy, nuts, and chewing gum tablets, with syrup, wax coloring matter, or other material to provide specified finish or polish: Dumps product into pan and starts pan revolving. Pours specified quantity of syrup over whirling candy or other product, and passes hands through batch to spread syrup uniformly. Turns steam valve and observes thermometer to regulate pan temperature, according to changes in atmospheric conditions, or when hard coatings have been specified. Examines and feels product to determine adequacy of coating, and applies successive charges of syrup until specified coating thickness is attained. Adds flavoring and coloring ingredients in final coating, as specified. May mix together and apply emulsified or dry ingredients, such as gum solution, cornstarch, and powdered sugar to product. May transfer contents to polishing pans and add specified ingredients to polish coating. May set temperature controls and start blower to dry syrup. May be designated according to product coated or polished as Almond-Pan Finisher (sugar & conf.); Chocolate-Peanut Coating-Machine Operator (sugar & conf.); Gum Coater (sugar & conf.). (references)
 Tends machine that applies finishing solution to yarn, thread, or twine to add strength and luster to item: Places full spools on spindles of creel, draws thread through finishing compound and drying and brushing units, and laps end onto takeup spools, or ties thread to preceding end. Pours finishing compound into tank to maintain specified level. Ties broken threads. Doffs finished spools and replaces them with empty spools. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Glazer

Synonyms: glasscutter (n), glassworker (n), glazier (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Glazer

English words defined with "glazer": Emery wheel. (references)
Specialty definitions using "glazer": FUR GLAZERPUTTY GLAZER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Glazer

DomainUsage

Song Titles

On Top of Spaghetti (performing artist: Tom Glazer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Glazer

DomainTitle

Books

  • FitzGibbon and Glazer on legal opinions : what opinions in financial transactions say and what they mean (reference)

  • Glazer and Fitzgibbon on Legal Opionions: Drafting, Interpreting and Supporting Closing Opinions in Business Transactions (reference)

  • Some Trick of Light: Poems by Jane Glazer (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Glazer

"Glazer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Glazer" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)75%3202,518
Noun (proper)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Glazer

The following table summarizes the usage of "glazer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GlazerLast name1,0009,446
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Glazer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  glazer

30

  bill glazer

3

  glazer jonathan

8

  dodger glazer malcom

3

  glazer malcolm

7

  distributing glazer

3

  nathan glazer

6

  elizabeth glazer

3

  eugene glazer robert

6

  mitch glazer

2

  glazer lee

6

  bryan glazer

2

  glazer steven

5

  foundation glazer

2

  tom glazer

5

  camera glazer

2

  family foundation glazer

5

  glazer malcom

2

  distributor glazer

4

  dr glazer

2

  dodger glazer

4

  brian glazer

2

  ethan glazer

4

  glazer wholesale

2
  

glazer safety slug

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Glazer

Language Translations for "glazer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

hoejglansapparat (glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

glanspers (glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press), glansmachine (glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press), spiegelglansapparatuur. (various references)

   

French

  

glaceuse (glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press), glaceur, machine à glacer (glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press), equipement de glacage. (various references)

   

German

  

Hochglanzpresse (glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press), Hochglanzgeraete. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συσκευή για τη στίλβωση (glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press), στιλβωτής (bloodstone, bloodstone burnisher blood, burnisher, glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press, polisher). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fényező (japanner). (various references)

   

Italian

  

smaltatrice (glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press), smaltatore, lucidatore (burnisher, cold roller, polisher). (various references)

   

Manx

  

greie gloasee, gloaseyder (polisher). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

azerglay

   

Portuguese

  

esmaltador (glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lustruitor, fabricant de lacuri. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

abrillantadora (ferrotype plate, glazing machine, glazing plate, glazing press, polisher, polishing machine). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

polerare. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sır kaplamacı (glazier), perdahçı (glazier, polisher), cilacı (burnisher, finisher, polisher), cila makinesi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Glazer

Derivations

Words beginning with "glazer": glazers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Glazer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glaber, glacer, Glaisher, glamer, glaner, Glanzer, glaper, glaser, Glasner, Glasper, glater, glazet, Glazyev, Gleiser, Goltzer, golzern, Gulzar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Glazer"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "glazer" (pronounced glā"zer)
4-l ā" z erblazer, laser, Lazar.
3-ā" z erappraiser, grazer, maser, Mazer, raiser, raser, razor.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Glazer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-r-z"

-1 letter: argle, gazer, glare, glaze, graze, lager, large, regal.

-2 letters: ager, earl, egal, gale, gaze, gear, laze, lear, rage, rale, raze, real, zeal.

-3 letters: age, ale, are, ear, era, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, lag, lar, lea, leg, lez, rag, reg, zag.

-4 letters: ae, ag, al, ar, el, er, la, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-r-z"
 

+1 letter: glazers, glazier, reglaze.

 

+2 letters: glaziers, glaziery, grazable, reglazed, reglazes.

 

+3 letters: glamorize, grazeable, legalizer, overglaze, realizing, reglazing, vulgarize.

 

+4 letters: allegorize, apologizer, burglarize, galvanizer, generalize, glamorized, glamorizer, glamorizes, glamourize, glazieries, laterizing, legalizers, overglazes, plagiarize, regularize, underglaze, velarizing, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizes.

 

+5 letters: allegorized, allegorizer, allegorizes, apologizers, burglarized, burglarizes, cartelizing, deglamorize, galvanizers, generalized, generalizer, generalizes, glamorizers, glamourized, glamourizes, linearizing, marbleizing, marginalize, organizable, plagiarized, plagiarizer, plagiarizes, reanalyzing, regionalize, regularized, regularizes, serializing, singularize, underglazes, verbalizing, vernalizing, vulgarizers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Glazer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 6C 61 7A 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-..    .-    --..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01101100 01100001 01111010 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#108 &#97 &#122 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 006C 0061 007A 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

417867927184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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