'Glass' definitions:
Definition of 'glass'
From: WordNet
noun
A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
noun
A container for holding liquids while drinking [syn: glass, drinking glass]
noun
The quantity a glass will hold [syn: glass, glassful]
noun
A small refracting telescope [syn: field glass, glass, spyglass]
noun
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 [syn: methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash]
noun
A mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror [syn: looking glass, glass]
noun
Glassware collectively; "She collected old glass"
verb
Furnish with glass; "glass the windows" [syn: glass, glaze]
verb
Scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
verb
Enclose with glass; "glass in a porch" [syn: glass, glass in]
verb
Put in a glass container
verb
Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored" [syn: glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over]
Definition of 'Glass'
From: GCIDE
- Glass \Glass\ (gl[.a]s), n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[ae]s; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS. gl[ae]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. Glare, n., Glaze, v. t.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides; thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous), red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium, yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown; gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium, emerald green; antimony, yellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Anything made of glass. Especially: (a) A looking-glass; a mirror. (b) 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. [1913 Webster]
- She would not live The running of one glass. --Shak. (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner. (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses. (e) A weatherglass; a barometer. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as, glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Bohemian glass, Cut glass, etc. See under Bohemian, Cut, etc.
- Crown glass, a variety of glass, used for making the finest plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it in the process of blowing.
- Crystal glass, or Flint glass. See Flint glass, in the Vocabulary.
- Cylinder glass, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened.
- Glass of antimony, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulphide.
- Glass cloth, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
- Glass coach, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so called because originally private carriages alone had glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart. [1913 Webster]
- Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands. --J. F. Cooper.
- Glass cutter. (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window panes, ets. (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and polishing. (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for cutting glass.
- Glass cutting. (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of glass into panes with a diamond. (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand, emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied; especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
- Glass metal, the fused material for making glass.
- Glass painting, the art or process of producing decorative effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting and glass staining (see Glass staining, below) are used indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows, and the like.
- Glass paper, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used for abrasive purposes.
- Glass silk, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
- Glass silvering, the process of transforming plate glass into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
- Glass soap, or Glassmaker's soap, the black oxide of manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take away color from the materials for glass.
- Glass staining, the art or practice of coloring glass in its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass. Cf. Glass painting.
- Glass tears. See Rupert's drop.
- Glass works, an establishment where glass is made.
- Heavy glass, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially of a borosilicate of potash.
- Millefiore glass. See Millefiore.
- Plate glass, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates, and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and the best windows.
- Pressed glass, glass articles formed in molds by pressure when hot.
- Soluble glass (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium, found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial stone, etc.; -- called also water glass.
- Spun glass, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
- Toughened glass, Tempered glass, glass finely tempered or annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine, etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the process, Bastie glass.
- Water glass. (Chem.) See Soluble glass, above.
- Window glass, glass in panes suitable for windows. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Glass'
From: GCIDE
- Glass \Glass\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glassing.]
- 1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively. [1913 Webster]
- Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To case in glass. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher. [1913 Webster] glassblower
Definition of 'Glass'
From: Easton
- Glass was known to the Egyptians at a very early period of their national history, at least B.C. 1500. Various articles both useful and ornamental were made of it, as bottles, vases, etc. A glass bottle with the name of Sargon on it was found among the ruins of the north-west palace of Nimroud. The Hebrew word _zekukith_ (Job 28:17), rendered in the Authorized Version "crystal," is rightly rendered in the Revised Version "glass." This is the only allusion to glass found in the Old Testament. It is referred to in the New Testament in Rev. 4:6; 15:2; 21:18, 21. In Job 37:18, the word rendered "looking-glass" is in the Revised Version properly rendered "mirror," formed, i.e., of some metal. (Comp. Ex. 38:8: "looking-glasses" are brazen mirrors, R.V.). A mirror is referred to also in James 1:23.
Synonyms of 'glass'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achromatic lens,
- adobe,
- aerological instrument,
- agate glass,
- alabaster,
- aneroid barometer,
- aneroidograph,
- astigmatic lens,
- barograph,
- barometer,
- barometrograph,
- beaker,
- bifocals,
- bijouterie,
- billiard table,
- binoculars,
- biscuit,
- bisque,
- blown glass,
- board,
- bottle glass,
- bowl,
- bowling alley,
- bowling green,
- brick,
- bubble,
- bullet-resisting glass,
- burning glass,
- camera,
- camphor glass,
- carnival glass,
- cement,
- ceramic ware,
- ceramics,
- cheval glass,
- china,
- clapboard,
- clear as glass,
- CM-glass,
- coated lens,
- concave lens,
- concave mirror,
- concavo-convex lens,
- condenser,
- convex lens,
- convex mirror,
- coralene,
- costume jewelry,
- CR-glass,
- crock,
- crockery,
- crown glass,
- crystal,
- cut glass,
- diaphane,
- display case,
- distorting mirror,
- eggshell,
- enamelware,
- eyeglass,
- eyeglasses,
- eyepiece,
- face,
- fiber glass,
- field glass,
- firebrick,
- flat,
- frosted glass,
- glass house,
- glasses,
- glasslike,
- glassware,
- glassy,
- glaze,
- goblet,
- goggles,
- ground glass,
- hand lens,
- hand mirror,
- house of cards,
- hurricane-hunter aircraft,
- hyalescent,
- hyaline,
- hygrometer,
- ice,
- image,
- ivory,
- jewelry,
- jug,
- junk jewelry,
- laminated glass,
- lath,
- lens,
- level,
- light,
- looking glass,
- lorgnette,
- lorgnon,
- magnifier,
- magnifying glass,
- mahogany,
- marble,
- matchwood,
- meniscus,
- mercury,
- microscope,
- mirror,
- object glass,
- objective,
- objective prism,
- ocular,
- old paper,
- opaline,
- opera glasses,
- pane,
- paper,
- parchment,
- paste,
- piecrust,
- pier glass,
- plane,
- plank,
- plate glass,
- porcelain,
- pot,
- pottery,
- prism,
- radiosonde,
- reader,
- reading glass,
- rear-view mirror,
- recording barometer,
- reflector,
- refractory,
- revet,
- rhinestone,
- safety glass,
- satin,
- scatter pins,
- scope,
- seeing glass,
- shake,
- shaving mirror,
- sheathe,
- shingle,
- shopwindow,
- showcase,
- silk,
- slate,
- slide,
- smooth,
- specs,
- spectacles,
- speculum,
- spy glass,
- spyglass,
- stained glass,
- stemware,
- stone,
- telephoto lens,
- telescope,
- tennis court,
- terrestrial telescope,
- thatch,
- thermal detector,
- thermometer,
- thermostat,
- tile,
- tiling,
- toric lens,
- transparent substance,
- trifocals,
- tumbler,
- urn,
- vacuometer,
- varifocal lens,
- vase,
- velvet,
- veneer,
- vitreous,
- vitrics,
- vitriform,
- vitrine,
- wall in,
- wall up,
- wallpaper,
- watch crystal,
- watch glass,
- weather balloon,
- weather instrument,
- weather satellite,
- weather vane,
- weatherboard,
- weatherglass,
- window,
- window glass,
- window mirror,
- windowlight,
- windowpane,
- zoom binoculars,
- zoom lens
Words containing 'Glass'
- Glassed,
- Glassful,
- Glassfuls,
- Glassing,
- glass in,
- glass over,
- glasses,
- Bastie glass,
- Bell glass,
- Bohemian glass,
- Bottle glass,
- Burning glass,
- Cheval glass,
- Crown glass,
- Crystal glass,
- Cupping glass,
- Cut glass,
- Cylinder glass,
- Field glass,
- Finger glass,
- Flashed glass,
- Flint glass,
- Gall of glass,
- Garden glass,
- Gauge glass,
- Glass cloth,
- Glass coach,
- Glass cutter,
- Glass cutting,
- Glass maker,
- Glass making,
- Glass metal,
- Glass of antimony,
- Glass painting,
- Glass paper,
- Glass silk,
- Glass silvering,
- Glass soap,
- Glass sponge,
- Glass staining,
- Glass tears,
- Glass works,
- Graduated glass,
- Ground glass,
- Hand glass,
- Heavy glass,
- Index glass,
- Liquid glass,
- Log glass,
- Matted glass,
- Milk glass,
- Millefiore glass,
- Minute glass,
- Mousseline glass,
- Mouth glass,
- Muller's glass,
- Multiplying glass,
- Murrhine glass,
- Muscovy glass,
- Musical glasses,
- Perspective glass,
- Pier glass,
- Plate glass,
- Pressed glass,
- Prism glass,
- Pulse glass,
- Quizzing glass,
- Race glass,
- Reading glass,
- Reticulated glass,
- Show glass,
- Soluble glass,
- Spun glass,
- Stained glass,
- Tempered glass,
- Toilet glass,
- Toughened glass,
- Venetian glass,
- Volcanic glass,
- Watch glass,
- Water glass,
- Window glass,
- beer glass,
- brandy glass,
- cover glass,
- dark glasses,
- drinking glass,
- field glasses,
- flute glass,
- glass blower,
- glass blowing,
- glass ceiling,
- glass eye,
- glass fiber,
- glass fibre,
- glass gall,
- glass harmonica,
- glass lizard,
- glass snake,
- glass tear,
- glass wool,
- glasses case,
- highball glass,
- jeweler's glass,
- laminated glass,
- lead glass,
- liqueur glass,
- looking glass,
- magnifying glass,
- natural glass,
- night glass,
- object glass,
- opal glass,
- opera glasses,
- optical glass,
- pane of glass,
- parfait glass,
- pheasant under glass,
- quartz glass,
- safety glass,
- sea of glass,
- shatterproof glass,
- sheet glass,
- shot glass,
- soft glass,
- tiffany glass,
- wire glass,
- Claude Lorraine glass,
- Egg-glass,
- Glass-crab,
- Glass-faced,
- Glass-gazing,
- Glass-rope,
- Glass-snail,
- Glass-snake,
- Glass-sponge,
- Looking-glass,
- Saint Gobain glass,
- diagonal opera glass,
- glass-cutter,
- glass-like,
- glass-shrimp,
- looking glass tree,
- optical crown glass,
- side opera glass,
- Lady's looking-glass,
- Venus's looking-glass,
- alcohol-in-glass thermometer,
- half-hour glass,
- half-minute glass,
- looking-glass plant,
- mercury-in-glass thermometer,
- stained-glass window,
- three-minute glass,
- mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer