Meaning of glass | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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)
2. A solution stack consisting of the GemStone database and application server, Linux operating system, Apache web server, Smalltalk programming language, and Seaside web framework.
3. A surname.
4. 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).
   uncountable, usually
5. Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice)
6. window
7. Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
   broadly, countable, uncountable
8. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
   countable
9. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material
10. first-person singular present indicative of vidriar
11. The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
    countable, metonymically, uncountable
12. The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel
13. Glassware.
    uncountable
14. Glassware
15. A mirror.
    countable, uncountable
16. A magnifying glass or loupe.
    countable, uncountable
17. A telescope.
    countable, uncountable
18. A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
19. The backboard.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
20. The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
    countable, uncountable
21. A barometer.
    countable, uncountable
22. Transparent or translucent.
    attributive, countable, uncountable
23. An hourglass.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
24. Lenses, considered collectively.
    informal, uncountable
25. Synonym of window or pane, particularly in vehicles.
    archaic, countable

Equivalents

Examples

“The tabletop is made of glass.”

“A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.”

“The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.”

“Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.”

“Would you like a glass of wine?”

“Fill my glass with milk, please.”

“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.”

“At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.”

“We collected art glass.”

“She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.”

“1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67, […] for what lady can abide to love a spruce silken-face courtier, that stands every morning two or three hours learning how to look by his glass, how to speak by his glass, how to sigh by his glass, how to court his mistress by his glass? I would wish him no other plague, but to have a mistress as brittle as glass.”

“Beholding her charms in the glaſs, ſhe wandered over a wilderneſs of vain fancies.”

“As of old, he took down his portable glass hanging on a nail, and carefully wiping it, replaced it in its case.”

“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.”

“He caught the rebound off the glass.”

“He fired the outlet pass off the glass.”

“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.”

“glass frog;  glass shrimp;  glass worm”

“Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ſhe would not liue / The running of one Glaſſe.”

“Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.”

“[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?’”

“Ladies are usually conveyed about Calcutta, or any where for short distances, in a kind of palanquin, called a boҫhah... Its deep shape, and its seat, much resemble the [English sedan chair]; but having two doors, one on each side, with one window in front, as well as a small one behind, all furnished with Venetians and glasses, give it, in those respects, some claim to alliance with the [chariot].”

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