glass
Speech parts
1. glass - Noun
2. glass - Verb
3. Glass - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
Anything made of glass.
A looking-glass; a mirror.
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.
A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
A weatherglass; a barometer.
To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
To case in glass.
To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
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She collected old glass
Her eyes glaze over when she is bored
glass in a porch
glass the windows
A better goal for the Bears, of course, would be to eventually have a glass that’s very clearly filled 75-80% and cut out all the other interpretive guesswork.
1900 CE– ) In the early days of US automobile use, people wanted to see the gasoline they were about to buy in a big glass pitcher, a direct measure of volume and quality via appearance.