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# unglazed

«unglazed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unglazed pottery or tiles have no shiny glassy coating…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unglazed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unglazed pottery or tiles have no shiny glassy coating (glaze) on the surface, so they look dull and feel rough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unglazed/#m1)

2) An unglazed window or door has no glass in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unglazed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In art and pottery lessons: clay pots are fired unglazed (bisque), then painted with glaze and fired again to make them shiny and waterproof. In history: old houses with unglazed windows had shutters instead of glass. Plant pots of unglazed terracotta let water and air through.

### examples

- Our clay pots came out of the kiln unglazed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unglazed/#x1)
- Unglazed pots soak up water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unglazed/#x2)
- The terracotta plant pot is unglazed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unglazed/#x3)
- We painted glaze on the unglazed bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unglazed/#x4)
- Medieval cottages had unglazed windows with wooden shutters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unglazed/#x5)
- Unglazed floor tiles are less slippery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unglazed/#x6)

### note

«Glaze» means a shiny coat on pottery, or glass in a window («glazier» fits glass). In the UK «double glazing» means windows with two layers of glass.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unglazed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unglazed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.