plate glass

Speech parts

1. plate glass - Noun

2. plate glass - Adjective

Meaning

glass formed into large thin sheets

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plate-glass

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Examples

"Judge stood alone at a plate glass window overlooking the carnage and devastation. Source: Internet

He watched the plane pull away from the gate, through the plate glass. Source: Internet

Raymond was asked to assume stewardship of the series after John Gardner retired in 1996, with a 007 short story in Playboy (“Blast from the Past”) followed by the release of ZERO MINUS TEN, which took off like a brick through a plate glass window. Source: Internet

The term is used to refer to such institutions collectively to distinguish them from the older Oxbridge institutions, the post-war 'plate glass' universities, and the "new" universities of the 1990s. Source: Internet

The windscreen was now flat bullet-resistant glass to avoid optical distortion, a change from the curved Plexiglas windscreens with the internal plate glass of the earlier Corsairs. Source: Internet

Bessemer patented a method for making a continuous ribbon of plate glass in 1848, but it was not commercially successful (see his autobiography, chapter 8). Source: Internet

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