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Definitions for GLASS
glæs, glɑsglass

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. glassnoun

    a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

  2. glass, drinking glassnoun

    a container for holding liquids while drinking

  3. glass, glassfulnoun

    the quantity a glass will hold

  4. field glass, glass, spyglassnoun

    a small refracting telescope

  5. methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trashnoun

    an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

  6. looking glass, glassnoun

    a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

  7. glassverb

    glassware collectively

    "She collected old glass"

  8. glass, glazeverb

    furnish with glass

    "glass the windows"

  9. glassverb

    scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

  10. glass, glass inverb

    enclose with glass

    "glass in a porch"

  11. glassverb

    put in a glass container

  12. glaze, glass, glass over, glaze oververb

    become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance

    "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"

Wiktionary

  1. glassnoun

    A solid, transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.

    The tabletop is made of glass.

  2. glassnoun

    A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

    Fill my glass with milk please.

  3. glassnoun

    The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

    Would you like a glass of milk?

  4. glassnoun

    Amorphous (non-crystalline) substance.

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

  5. glassnoun

    Glassware.

    We collected art glass.

  6. glassnoun

    A mirror.

    She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.

  7. glassnoun

    A magnifying glass or telescope.

    We looked through the glass to see stars.

  8. glassnoun

    The backboard.

    He caught the rebound off of the glass.

  9. glassnoun

    The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.

    He fired the outlet pass off the glass.

  10. glassverb

    To furnish with glass; to glaze.

  11. glassverb

    To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars

  12. glassverb

    To enclose with glass.

  13. glassverb

    To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.

  14. glassverb

    To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.

  15. glassnoun

    A barometer.

    The glass is falling hour by hour uE000100103uE001 Louis MacNeice.

  16. Etymology: From glæs, cognate with Old Saxon and Old High German glas, which (in) is attested as a gloss for Latin electrum. These words are developed from glasan. Possibly ultimately from the Proto-Germanic root (compare glow).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Glassadjective

    Vitreous; made of glass.

    Get thee glass eyes;
    And, like a scurvy politician, seem
    To see the things thou do’st not. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    Glass bottles are more fit for this second fining than those of wood. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

  2. GLASSnoun

    Etymology: glæs, Saxon; glas, Dutch, as Pezon imagines from glâs, British, green. In Erse it is called klânn, and this primarily signifies clean or clear, being so denominated from its transparency.

    The word glass cometh from the Belgick and High Dutch: glass, from the verb glansen, which signifies amongst them to shine; or perhaps from glacies in the Latin, which is ice, whose colour it resembles. Henry Peacham, on Drawing.

    Glass is thought so compact and firm a body that it is indestructible by art or nature, and is also of so close a texture that the subtlest chymical spirits cannot pervade it. Boyle.

    Show’rs of granadoes rain, by sudden burst
    Disploding murd’rous bowels, fragments of steel
    And stones, and glass and nitrous grain adust. Phillips.

    I’ll see no more;
    And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass
    Which shews me many more. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
    That fashion’d others. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

    He spreads his subtile nets from sight,
    With twinkling glasses, to betray
    The larks that in the meshes light. John Dryden, Horace.

    Were my wife’s liver
    Infected as her life, she would not live
    The running of one glass. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

    To this last costly treaty,
    That swallow’d so much treasure, and like a glass
    Did break i’ th’ rinsing. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

    When thy heart
    Dilates with fervent joys, and eager soul
    Prompts to pursue the sparkling glass, besure
    ’Tis time to shun it. Phillips.

    While a man thinks one glass more will not make him drunk, that one glass hath disabled him from well discerning his present condition. Jeremy Taylor, Rule of living holy.

    The first glass may pass for health, the second for good-humour, the third for our friends; but the fourth is for our enemies. William Temple.

    Like those who have surveyed the moon by glasses, I can only tell of a new and shining world above us; but not relate the riches and glories of the place. Dryden.

  3. To Glassverb

    Methinks I am partaker of thy passion,
    And in thy case do glass mine own debility. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

    Methought all his senses were lockt in his eye,
    As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy;
    Who tend’ring their own worth, from whence they were glasst,
    Did point out to buy them, along as you past. William Shakespeare.

    I have observed little grains of silver to lie hid in the small cavities, perhaps glassed over by a vitrifying heat, in crucibles wherein silver has been long kept in fusion. Boyle.

Wikipedia

  1. Glass

    Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent amorphous solid, that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of the molten form; some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occurring. The most familiar, and historically the oldest, types of manufactured glass are "silicate glasses" based on the chemical compound silica (silicon dioxide, or quartz), the primary constituent of sand. Soda-lime glass, containing around 70% silica, account for around 90% of manufactured glass. The term glass, in popular usage, is often used to refer only to this type of material, although silica-free glasses often have desirable properties for applications in modern communications technology. Some objects, such as drinking glasses and eyeglasses, are so commonly made of silicate-based glass that they are simply called by the name of the material. Although brittle, silicate glass is extremely durable, and many examples of glass fragments exist from early glass-making cultures. Archaeological evidence suggests glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 BCE in Mesopotamia, Egypt, or Syria. The earliest known glass objects were beads, perhaps created accidentally during metal-working or the production of faience. Due to its ease of formability into any shape, glass has been traditionally used for vessels: bowls, vases, bottles, jars and drinking glasses. In its most solid forms, it has also been used for paperweights and marbles. Glass can be coloured by adding metal salts or painted and printed with vitreous enamels, leading to its use in stained glass windows and other glass art objects. The refractive, reflective and transmission properties of glass make glass suitable for manufacturing optical lenses, prisms, and optoelectronics materials. Extruded glass fibres have application as optical fibres in communications networks, thermal insulating material when matted as glass wool so as to trap air, or in glass-fibre reinforced plastic (fibreglass).

ChatGPT

  1. glass

    Glass is a hard, brittle, transparent or translucent substance that is typically produced by supercooling a melted mixture, primarily consisting of silica, soda, and lime, and then solidifying it without crystallization. It is often used in applications like window panes, drinking containers, and eyewear due to its unique properties like the ability to refract, transmit and reflect light without scattering it. It can also undergo coloration, reinforcement or be tempered for additional properties.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Glassverb

    a hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament

  2. Glassverb

    any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion

  3. Glassverb

    anything made of glass

  4. Glassverb

    a looking-glass; a mirror

  5. Glassverb

    a vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand

  6. Glassverb

    a drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner

  7. Glassverb

    an optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses

  8. Glassverb

    a weatherglass; a barometer

  9. Glassverb

    to reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively

  10. Glassverb

    to case in glass

  11. Glassverb

    to cover or furnish with glass; to glaze

  12. Glassverb

    to smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher

  13. Etymology: [OE. glas, gles, AS. gls; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS. glr amber, L. glaesum. Cf. Glare, n., Glaze, v. t.]

Wikidata

  1. Glass

    Glass is an amorphous solid material that exhibits a glass transition, which is the reversible transition in amorphous materials from a hard and relatively brittle state into a molten or rubber-like state. Glasses are typically brittle and can be optically transparent. The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus sodium oxide from soda ash, lime, and several minor additives. Often, the term glass is used in a restricted sense to refer to this specific use. From the 19th century, various types of fancy glass started to become significant branches of the decorative arts. Objects made out of glass include not only traditional objects such as vessels, paperweights, marbles, beads, but an endless range of sculpture and installation art as well. Colored glass is often used, though sometimes the glass is painted, innumerable examples exist of the use of stained glass. In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications polymer glasses are a lighter alternative to traditional silica glasses.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Glass

    glas, n. a combination of silica with some alkali or alkaline earth, such as lime, &c., used for window panes, mirrors, lenses, &c.: anything made of glass, esp. a drinking-vessel, a mirror, &c.: the quantity of liquid a glass holds: any fused substance like glass, with a vitreous fracture: (pl.) spectacles.—adj. made of glass.—v.t. to case in glass.—ns. Glass′-blow′er, one who blows and fashions glass; Glass′-blow′ing, the process of making glass, by taking a mass of glass reduced by heat to a viscid state, and inflating it; Glass′-coach, a coach for hire having glazed windows; Glass′-crab, the larval form of rock lobsters, &c., but formerly regarded as adults, and made into a genus or even family; Glass′-cut′ter; Glass′-cut′ting, the act or process of cutting, shaping, and ornamenting the surface of glass.—adj. Glass′-faced (Shak.), reflecting the sentiments of another, as in a mirror.—n. Glass′ful, the contents of a glass.—adj. Glass′-gaz′ing (Shak.), addicted to viewing one's self in a mirror.—ns. Glass′-grind′ing, the ornamenting of glass by rubbing with sand, emery, &c.; Glass′-house, a glass manufactory: a house made of glass.—adv. Glass′ily.—n. Glass′iness.—adj. Glass′-like.—ns. Glass′-paint′ing, the art of producing pictures on glass by means of staining it chemically; Glass′-pā′per, paper coated with finely pounded glass, and used like sand-paper; Glass′-soap, an oxide of manganese and other substances used by glass-blowers to remove colouring from glass; Glass′ware, articles made of glass; Glass′-work, articles made of glass; Glass′wort, a plant so called from its yielding soda, used in making glass.—adjs. Glass′y, made of or like glass; Glass′y-head′ed (Tenn.), having a bald, shining head.—ns. Cut′-glass, flint-glass shaped or ornamented by cutting or grinding on a wheel; Ground′-glass, any glass that has been depolished by a sand-blast, grinding, or etching with acids, so as to destroy its transparency; Plate′-glass, glass cast in large thick plates.—Live in a glass house=to be open to attack or retort.—Musical glasses (see Harmonica).—Water, or Soluble, glass, the soluble silicate of soda or of potash formed when silica is fused with an excess of alkali, used for hardening artificial stone, as a cement, and for rendering calico, &c., uninflammable. [A.S. glæs; Dut., Ger., and Sw. glas; cog. with glow, gleam, glance, glare.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. glass

    [IBM] Synonym for silicon.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Glass

    Hard, amorphous, brittle, inorganic, usually transparent, polymerous silicate of basic oxides, usually potassium or sodium. It is used in the form of hard sheets, vessels, tubing, fibers, ceramics, beads, etc.

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Glass

    A fused mixture of silicates of various oxides. It is of extremely varied composition and its electric constants vary greatly. Many determinations of its specific resistance have been made. For flint glass at 100° C. (212° F.) about (2.06E14) ohms --at 60° C (140° F.) (1.020E15) (Thomas Gray) is given, while another observer (Beetz) gives for glass at ordinary temperatures an immeasurably high resistance. It is therefore a non-conductor of very high order if dry. As a dielectric the specific inductive capacity of different samples of flint glass is given as 6.57--6.85--7.4--10.1 (Hopkinson), thus exceeding all other ordinary dielectrics. The densest glass, other things being equal, has the highest specific inductive capacity.

CrunchBase

  1. Glass

    shopglass.com is a desktop and mobile website that helps consumers discover and buy clothing, accessories and shoes from thousands of local and online stores.Glass is "window shopping" in the palm of your hand. Glass has developed proprietary technology that searches the social graph to aggregate and categorize relevant fashion content from over 50,000 stores in 300+ US cities. With Glass, consumers can: Track their favorite stores Stay informed about new sales and deals Discover new stores they will love Take the mobile app with them when they are on the go. Learn more at www.shopglass.com or via the iPhone app.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. glass

    The usual appellation for a telescope (see the old sea song of Lord Howard's capture of Barton the pirate). Also, the familiar term for a barometer. Glass is also used in the plural to denote time-glass on the duration of any action; as, they fought yard-arm and yard-arm three glasses, i.e. three half-hours.--To flog or sweat the half-hour glass. To turn the sand-glass before the sand has quite run out, and thus gaining a few minutes in each half-hour, make the watch too short.--Half-minute and quarter-minute glasses, used to ascertain the rate of the ship's velocity measured by the log; they should be occasionally compared with a good stop watch.--Night-glass. A telescope adapted for viewing objects at night.

Editors Contribution

  1. glassnoun

    A gloss used in comparisons to refer to the extent or degree of sand that is natural or manufactured in producing product production by oneself.

    The reflection of glass has a chemistry plan from the sand of our mother land.

    Etymology: Transparent


    Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on December 25, 2023  

  2. glass

    A type of material and product.

    There is glass in every window created.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 29, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GLASS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Glass is ranked #823 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Glass surname appeared 41,802 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 14 would have the surname Glass.

    76.9% or 32,183 total occurrences were White.
    17.3% or 7,253 total occurrences were Black.
    2.2% or 957 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 786 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 443 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.4% or 184 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'GLASS' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1049

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'GLASS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1459

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'GLASS' in Nouns Frequency: #368

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  1. slags

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of GLASS in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of GLASS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of GLASS in a Sentence

  1. Steve Freel:

    Her front door is a dead bolt so that’s the only way you can unlock it. Quite a few sliding glass doors within the house were all locked. There was no sign at all of forced entry.

  2. Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski:

    It was a long day, i was one pooped puppy. Lisa Murkowski said Lisa Murkowski might have a glass of wine and take a bath tonight to relax. On Wednesday, Lisa Murkowski said Lisa Murkowski was.

  3. Alexander Afendikov:

    I can't send a group of glass workers to a small private house when there's a big apartment block nearby, and you can turn on the heating there and move 100-300 people there.

  4. Jeffery Brooks:

    Pretty obvious he knew what he was doing. The outfit that he has on was some type of material that didn’t allow him to cut himself when he was reaching his arms all the way in against that glass.

  5. Berenice Lurton:

    It is a luxury perfume in the glass, and the taste of it is a perfect melding of sweetness and freshness, for me, it is nothing but sensuality in a glass.

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