Glass

Noun



 * 1)  A solid, transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
 * The tabletop is made of glass.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
 * Would you like a glass of milk?
 * 1)  Amorphous (non-crystalline) substance.
 * A popular myth is that window glass actually is an extremely viscous liquid.
 * 1)  Glassware.
 * We collected art glass.
 * 1) A mirror.
 * She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
 * 1) A magnifying glass or telescope.
 * We looked through the glass to see stars.
 * 1)  The backboard.
 * He caught the rebound off of the glass.
 * 1)  The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
 * He fired the outlet pass off the glass.

Derived terms

 * carnival glass
 * cheval glass
 * eyeglasses
 * glassblower
 * glassblowing
 * glasses


 * glassformer
 * glass frog
 * glasshouse
 * glass jaw
 * glassless
 * glassmaker
 * glassware


 * glasswork
 * glassworker
 * glassy
 * isinglass
 * looking glass
 * magnifying glass
 * spyglass

Verb

 * 1)  To furnish with glass; to glaze.
 * 2)  To enclose with glass.
 * 3)  To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
 * 4) * 1987, John Godber, Bouncers
 * JUDD. Any trouble last night? / LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
 * 1) * 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoters Tale
 * I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.
 * 1) * 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp
 * One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.
 * 1) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.


 * 1) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars

Adjectives for Glass
undersized; sapphire; frosted; gleaming; spilled; parenthetical; arid; iridescent; bifocal; misted; delicate; preparatory; smoky; sumptuous; watery; tarnished; steaming; shattered; spattering; neglected; molten; poor; distorted; stained; cobwebbed; superstitious; irregular; untasted; social; translucent; medieval; brimming; swirled; rimmed; uncolored; inverted; dimpling; opaque.

Verbs for Glass
brandish—; blow—; cast—; chip—; clink —s; color—; cover with—; crack—; drain —; engrave—; etch on—; file—; fondle—; frame with—; glaze with—; grind—; mold —; nick—; pulverize—; shape—; shatter—; split—; stain—; — clash; — clatter; — clink.

Thesaurus
CM-glass, CR-glass, 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, coated lens, concave lens, concave mirror, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, convex mirror, coralene, costume jewelry, 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

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. Possibly ultimately from the Proto-Germanic root (compare glow).

Noun

 * Afrikaans: glas
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: زجاج
 * Aragonese:, beire
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܙܓܘܓܝܬܐ (zgūgītā’)
 * Hebrew: זגוגיתא (zgūgītā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: шкло
 * Bengali: কাঁচ
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ဖန်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: 玻璃
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: klaas
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მინა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern:, , ύελος
 * Gujarati: શીશો
 * Hebrew: זכוכית (zhuhit), זגוגית (zgugit)
 * Hindi: ग्लास, शीशा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ガラス, 硝子
 * Kamba:
 * Khmer: កែវ
 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish: şûşe, cam , glas , belûr , ,
 * Kyrgyz: аупек
 * Kyrgyz: аупек


 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Luxembourgish: Glas
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: സ്ഫടികം, പളുങ്കുപാത്രം, ഗ്ലാസ
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: glonney
 * Maori: karaihe, karāhe, karaehe
 * Marathi: कांच
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: شیشه, آبگینه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gloinne, glainne
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, cpчa
 * Roman: staklo, srča
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: kgalase
 * Spanish: cristal, vidrio
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: salamin
 * Taos: p’ȍxwìli’ína
 * Telugu: గాజు (gaaju)
 * Thai: แก้ว
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: گلاس, شیشہ
 * Uyghur: ئەينەك
 * Vietnamese: thuỷ tinh
 * Volapük: glät
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: glês
 * Yiddish: גלאָז (gloz)
 * Vietnamese: thuỷ tinh
 * Volapük: glät
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: glês
 * Yiddish: גלאָז (gloz)


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: كأس, كوب
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: edalontzi
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: got, vas,
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 杯子
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჭიქა (č‘ik‘a)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: כוס (kos)
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: vitro
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 글라스, 잔
 * Kurdish: perdaq, piyale , şûşe , glas , ,


 * Latvian: glāze
 * Lithuanian: stiklinė
 * Luxembourgish: Glas
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Manx: glonney
 * Persian: لیوان,
 * Polish: szklanka, kieliszek (for alcoholic drinks)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, рюмка
 * Scottish Gaelic: glainne
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: čaša
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: kgalase
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: baso
 * Taos: bósuną
 * Telugu: లోటా (lota)
 * Thai: (gâew)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: склянка
 * Volapük: vär
 * Yiddish: גלאָז (gloz)


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: vidre
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მინა (mina)
 * German:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 유리 (yuri)
 * Kurdish: şûşe, glas , belûr , cam , ,


 * Luxembourgish: Glas
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Persian: (šīšeh)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: sticlă
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: glainne
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: staklo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: salamin
 * Yiddish: גלאָז (gloz)

Anagrams

 * slags

Etymology 1
From glas:

Adjective

 * 1) green, verdant
 * 2) * Ta'n londaig hannah jeeaghyn slane glass.
 * 3) ** The lawn looks quite green already.
 * 4) * yn faarkey glass tonnagh foin
 * 5) ** the green billowy sea under us
 * 6) * yn awin ghlass
 * 7) ** the green river
 * 8) grey, ashen colour
 * 9) soft, pale, pasty
 * 10) raw, unfledged, sappy
 * 11) callow

Etymology 2
From glas:

Noun

 * 1) lock
 * 2) * Hooar eh y glass er y dorrys roish.
 * 3) ** He found himself locked out.
 * 4) * T'eh fo glass.
 * 5) ** He is behind bars.
 * 6) * Ta glass er my hengey.
 * 7) ** My lips are sealed.
 * 8) * Ta glass y dorrys er y çheu sthie.
 * 9) ** The door locks on the inside.
 * 10) * Ta'n ogher shoh gentreil y glass.
 * 11) ** This key goes in the lock.
 * 12) * Vrish ad y glass.
 * 13) ** They forced the lock.

Etymology
From glace:.

Noun

 * 1) ice cream

Declension
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