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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)
- (uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
- (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- (uncountable) Glassware.
- A mirror.
- A magnifying glass or telescope.
- (sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
- A barometer.
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- (obsolete) An hourglass.
Verb
glass (third-person singular simple present glasses, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)
- (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
- (transitive) To enclose in glass.
- (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass.. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
- (transitive, Britain, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- (science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
- To become glassy.
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