glazing vs surface

glazing

noun
  • The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material. 

  • The act or process of glazing or an instance thereof. 

  • All the windows of a building. 

  • The art of covering with a vitreous substance. 

  • The material used in such act or process; glaze. 

  • Semi-transparent colours painted thinly over others to modify the effect. 

surface

noun
  • The outside hull of a tangible object. 

  • Outward or external appearance. 

  • The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid. 

  • The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space. 

verb
  • To apply a surface to something. 

  • To make (information or facts) known. 

  • To become known or apparent; to appear or be found. 

  • To provide something with a surface. 

  • To bring to the surface. 

  • To come out of hiding. 

  • To work a mine near the surface. 

  • To rise to the surface. 

How often have the words glazing and surface occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )