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Meaning of water glass | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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