glass
nounEtymology
* As an English, Jewish and German surname, from the noun glass. * Also as an English surname, from a nickname derived from French glas (“bell, tumult, clash of arms”). * As a Celtic surname (Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and Scottish Gaelic), Anglicized from the adjective glas (“grey”). * Also as a German surname, altered from the personal name Klass, shortened from Nikolaus, compare Nicholas. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized and Germanized from Glas.
Definitions
An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with…
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).
- This tabletop is made of glass.
- A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar…
A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- Would you like a glass of wine?
- Fill my glass with milk, please.
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The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
- Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
Glassware.
- We collected art glass.
A mirror.
- She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
- Beholding her charms in the glaſs, ſhe wandered over a wilderneſs of vain fancies.
A magnifying glass or loupe.
A telescope.
- Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns, as is well known, and in the early part of the stalking season, when seen through a glass, might be mistaken for hummels […]
- He got a good glass for six hundred dollars. His new job gave him leisure for star-gazing. Often he bid me come and have a look Up the brass barrel, velvet black inside, At a star quaking in the other end.
A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
- He caught the rebound off the glass.
A barometer.
- The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever / But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.
Transparent or translucent.
- glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm
An hourglass.
- Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ſhe would not liue / The running of one Glaſſe.
Lenses, considered collectively.
- Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.
Synonym of window or pane, particularly in vehicles.
- [N]o sooner had we entered Holbourn than letting down one of the Front Glasses I enquired of every decent-looking Person that we passed ‘If they had seen my Edward?’
To fit with glass
To fit with glass; to glaze.
To enclose in glass.
- As Iewels in Christall for some Prince to buy. / Who tendring their own worth from whence they were glast,
- And to ſatisfie my ſelf, that the diverſity came not from the Paper, vvhich one might ſuſpect capable of imbibing the Liquor, and altering the Colour, I made the Tryal upon a flat piece of purely VVhite Glaſs'd Earth, […]
Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin…
Clipping of 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…
To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- JUDD. Any trouble last night? LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
- I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.
- One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.
To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as…
To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
- One of the keys to glassing effectively is supporting your binoculars. Advanced glassers who scan lots of country for long periods of time, or who use binoculars of 10X power or more, often use a lightweight camera tripod […]
To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
To reflect
To reflect; to mirror.
- Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror.
- Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.
To make glassy.
- Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree.
To become glassy.
- Bourez had timed it perfectly: a wind that was forecast for the morning began to stir just after his arrival and the sea glassed off for a brief period before the waves grew bigger and bigger.
A surname.
A solution stack consisting of the GemStone database and application server, Linux…
A solution stack consisting of the GemStone database and application server, Linux operating system, Apache web server, Smalltalk programming language, and Seaside web framework.
The neighborhood
Derived
African glass catfish, Alamogordo glass, anaclastic glass, art glass, aurora glass, backglass, beer glass, beer-glass, bioglass, blown glass, Bohemian glass, borophosphosilicate glass, borosilicate glass, bottle and glass, brandy glass, breakaway glass, Bristol blue glass, burning glass, burning-glass, cabal glass, candy glass, car glass, carnival glass, cellular glass insulation, chalcogenide glass, champagne glass, cheval-glass, cheval glass, chimney-glass, Claude glass, Claude Lorraine glass, cocktail glass, coffee glass, coffee-glass, cognac glass, Collins glass, counting glass, coverglass, crackle glass, cranberry glass · +272 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at glass. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at glass. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at glass
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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