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Definition glass

Etymology

From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glas?, possibly related root *gl?an? (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *??el- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”); cognate with West Frisian glês, Low German Glas, Dutch glas, German Glas, Icelandic gler, Swedish glas.

Noun

glass (countable and uncountable, plural glasses)

  1. (uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
  2. (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
  3. (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
  4. (uncountable) Glassware.
  5. A mirror.
  6. A magnifying glass or telescope.
  7. (sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
    1. (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
    2. (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
  8. A barometer.
  9. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
  10. (obsolete) An hourglass.

Verb

glass (third-person singular simple present glasses, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)

  1. (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
  2. (transitive) To enclose in glass.
  3. (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass.. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
  4. (transitive, Britain, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
  5. (science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
  6. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
  7. To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
  8. (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
  9. To become glassy.

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