verb
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To apply fibreglass to.
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to fibreglass the hull of a fishing-boat
noun
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An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
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A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
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A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
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Fill my glass with milk, please.
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(metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
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There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
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Glassware.
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We collected art glass.
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A mirror.
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She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
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A magnifying glass or telescope.
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A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
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A barometer.
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(in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
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glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm
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An hourglass.
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Lenses, considered collectively.
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Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.
verb
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To fit with glass; to glaze.
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To enclose in glass.
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To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
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To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
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To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
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To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
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To reflect; to mirror.
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To make glassy.
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To become glassy.
Examples of glass in a Sentence
Could I have a glass of water?
He set a glass of Coke on the counter before her.
Let me get you a glass.
She brought him a plate of warm cookies and a glass of milk.
It was senseless to look elsewhere, as both had been present when Cynthia placed the small fragment in the cut glass enclosure.
She returned with a bottle and a glass.
Picking up the glass of orange juice, he took a swallow.
I shook my head and took them all off and made her feel of the two wooden beads and the one glass bead.
I took them off and showed her that the two wooden ones must go on first, then the glass bead.
He sat down with the bottle, not bothering to use a glass.
Finally, his intent gaze left the glass and found hers.
Either that or change my eye glass prescription.
The glass carafe exploded.
Jackson collected his painting and glass.
It is well known that a large plate of glass will have a green tint, owing, as the makers say, to its "body," but a small piece of the same will be colorless.
Daniela refilled the glass without asking, and Deidre drank more.
Dean rose to pour himself a glass of milk.
She snatched it and swept past him, popping it open as she neared a wall covered in a titanium glass screen.
The most important imports are minerals, including coal and metals (both in pig and wrought); silks, raw, spun and woven; stone, potters earths, earthenware and glass; corn, flour and farinaceous products; cotton, raw, spun and woven; and live stock.
She cleared her throat, staring into the wine glass.
He swiped a badge to enter what she imagined was the Mecca of all science labs, with rows of stainless steel, machines, computers, and glass.
She waited until the door closed before crossing to the carafe and refilling her glass.
Kris accepted the glass of whiskey but avoided Jade's extended hand.
Completely free, she relaxed and accepted a glass of champagne from one of the wait staff and waded toward the buffet.
Brady watched Angel carefully place the keypad into a wall with several others, then secure them behind a thick shield of titanium glass.
The only thing she had to eat since yesterday noon was a glass of milk in the wee hours of the morning.
The discrepancies produced in this way are, however, very small, if care is taken to minimize the distance between the silver film and the photographic plate and to select a reasonably good piece of glass for the reseau.
The image of the star is set updn the intersections of the lines of the central cross, and the positions of the reseau-lines are read off by estimation to - of a division on the glass scale.
The object glass of the micrometer-microscope is placed midway between the plane of the photographic plate and the plane of the micrometer webs.
Its fundamental principle is that, by a combination of glass scales with a micrometer screw, " the chief part of the distance to be measured is read off on the scale; the fractional part of the scalespace is not estimated but measured by the screw."
In light Kundt's name is widely known for his inquiries in anomalous dispersion, not only in liquids and vapours, but even in metals, which he obtained in very thin films by means of a laborious process of electrolytic deposition upon platinized glass.
The building, chiefly of iron and glass, is flanked by two towers and is visible from far over the metropolis.
He obtains a magic glass cage, yoked with eight griffins, flies through the clouds, and, thanks to enchanters who know the language of birds, gets information as to their manners and customs, and ultimately receives their submission.
That he was capable of better work than is suggested by his average accomplishment is shown by two allegorical poems - the Complaint of the Black Knight and the Temple of Glass (once attributed to Hawes).
Lydgate's most doughty and learned apologist is Dr Schick, whose preface to the Temple of Glass embodies practically all that is known or conjectured concerning this author, including the chronological order of his works.
The import trade shows the largest totals in foodstuffs, wines and liquors, textiles and raw materials for their manufacture, wood and its manufactures, iron and its manufactures, paper and cardboard, glass and ceramic wares.
The market-gardeners of Paris and its vicinity have a high reputation for skill in the forcing of early vegetables under glass.
Glass is manufactured in the departments of Nord (Aniche, &c.), Seine, Loire (Rive-de-Gier) and Meurthe-et-Moselle, Baccarat in the latter department being famous for its table-glass.
It fumes strongly in air, and does not attack glass.
The town has a tribunal of commerce and a communal college, flour-mills, manufactories of earthenware, biscuits, furniture, casks, and glass and brick works; the port has trade in grain, timber, hemp, flax, &c.
Among the industrial establishments of the city are stove and range factories, flour mills, rolling mills, distilleries, breweries, shoe factories, copper refining works, nail and tack factories, glass works and agricultural implement factories.
These vary in form, but essentially they consist of a stem of porcelain, coarse earthenware, glass or other non-conducting substance, protected by an overhanging roof or screen.
In the Korn apparatus the light from a Nernst electric lamp is concentrated to a point by means of a lens on the original picture, which is wound on a glass cylinder in the shape of a transparent photographic film.
A totally reflecting prism placed inside the glass cylinder projects the light which penetrates the film upon a selenium cell situated at the end of the cylinder.
A fine glass siphon tube is suspended with freedom to move in only one degree, and is connected with the signal-coil and moves with it.
He constructed one form of his coherer of a glass tube a few inches long filled with iron borings or brass filings, having contact plates or pins at the end.
The tube is then exhausted of its air, and attached to a bone or glass rod as a holder.
The transformer T has its secondary or high-pressure terminals connected to spark balls S1, which are also connected by a circuit consisting of a large glass plate condenser C, and the primary circuit of an air-core transformer called an oscillation transformer.
In its course it passes through a glass tube wound over with two coils of wire; one of these is an oscillation coil through which the oscillations to be detected pass, and the other is in connexion with a telephone.
If a loop of very fine platinum wire, prepared by the Wollaston process, is included in an exhausted glass bulb like an incandescent lamp, then when electric oscillations are sent through it its resistance is increased.