GLASS
\ɡlˈas], \ɡlˈas], \ɡ_l_ˈa_s]\
Definitions of GLASS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a glass container for holding liquids while drinking
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a small refracting telescope
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glassware collectively; "She collected old glass"
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a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
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put in a glass container
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enclose with glass; "glass in a porch"
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scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
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furnish with glass; "glass the windows"
By Princeton University
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a glass container for holding liquids while drinking
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a small refracting telescope
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glassware collectively; "She collected old glass"
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a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
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become glassy; of eyes; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"
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put in a glass container
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enclose with glass; "glass in a porch"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
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Anything made of glass.
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A looking-glass; a mirror.
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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.
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A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
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A weatherglass; a barometer.
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To case in glass.
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To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
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To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
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To reflect, as in a mirror.
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An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; - in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
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To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
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Anything made of glass.
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A looking-glass; a mirror.
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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.
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A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
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A weatherglass; a barometer.
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To case in glass.
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To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
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To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
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To reflect, as in a mirror.
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An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; - in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
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To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.
By Noah Webster.
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To case in glass.
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The hard, brittle, transparent substance in windows: anything made of glass, esp. a drinking vessel, a mirror, etc.:-pl. spectacles: the quantity of liquid a glass holds.
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Made of glass.
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GLASSLIKE.
By Daniel Lyons
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To reflect, as in a mirror.
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A hard, brittle, transparent substance, white or colored, made by melting together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide, and used for window-panes, mirrors, dishes, etc.; a drinking glass, or the quantity contained in it; a mirror; lens; a telescope, or barometer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To reflect, as in a mirror.
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To glaze.
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A transparent, brittle compound of silica with metallic oxids.
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Any article made wholly or partly of glass, as a mirror or a drinking-vessel; in the plural, spectacles or eye-glasses.
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The contents of a drinking-glass.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To reflect, as in a mirror.
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Made of glass; vitreous.
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A hard, brittle, transparent substance, formed by fusing silicious matter with fixed alkalies; a drinking vessel of glass; the quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains; strong drink; a mirror; a vessel filled with sand for measuring time; the time in which it is exhausted of sand; the destined time of man's life; a vessel that shows the weight of the air; a lens or optical instrument through which an object is viewed; a telescope; a barometer.
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To mirror; to case in glass; to cover with glass; to glaze.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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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.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Made of glass.
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A hard, brittle, transparent substance, made by fusing powdered flint or fine sand with some alkali; a small drinking-vessel; the quantity contained therein; a mirror; a scientific instrument, as a prospect-glass, a weather-glass.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Brittle transparent substance made from alkalies and silex; anything made of glass, as a cup, mirror, lens. &c.
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To cover with glass.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A hard, brittle, homogeneous, transparent substance, made by melting sand and consisting essentially of a metallic silicate with silicic acid, with soda or potash, etc.
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A lens, mirror, or other implement having its essential parts made of that material.
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In the pl., glasses, spectacles; lenses, prisms, or plane, usually oval sheets of glass mounted to be worn before the eyes for the correction of visual defects or for purposes of protection.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic] A hard, brittle, transparent substance formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies;—a looking-glass; a mirror;—a glass filled with running sand for measuring time; the time in which a glass is exhausted of its sand; hence, measure of time; destined period of life;—a drinking glass; a tumbler; wine glass;—the quantity contained therein; draught;—a perspective instrument; telescope; spyglass; opera glass, &c.;—an instrument to indicate the weight of the air; barometer;—pl., Spectacles.
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An artificial substance made by fusing salts and flint or sand together, with a vehement fire; a glass vessel of any kind; a looking-glass, a mirrour; a glass to help the sight; An Hour Glass, a glass used in measuring time by the flux of sand; a cup of glass used to drink in; the quantity of wine usually contained in a glass; a perspective glass.
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Vitreous, made of glass.
By Thomas Sheridan
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