Meaning of water glass | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A drinking vessel intended or used for water.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any of various water-soluble silicate compounds, especially when occurring in dissolved, jelly-like form.
   countable, uncountable
3. A water gauge for a steam boiler.
   countable, uncountable
4. An instrument consisting of an open box or tube with a glass bottom, used for examining objects in the water, as upon the sea bottom in shallow places.
   countable, uncountable
5. A water clock.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“She asked the server to refill her water glass.”

“No; what I felt was a sort⟳ of glazed numbness, as if I were suspended in some thin, transparent stuff, like⟳ one of the eggs my mother used to preserve⟳ in waterglass when I was a child.”

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