glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gläs
ipa: /ɡlɑːs/
enpr: glăs
ipa: /ɡlæs/
ipa: [ɡlɛəs]
ipa: [ɡleəs]
ipa: [ɡläːs]
ipa: [ɡlɐːs]
ipa: [ɡlas]
ipa: [ɡläs]
rhymes: -ɑːs
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: glasses
form: glasse
Etymology: From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰleh₁- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”).
Cognate with West Frisian glês, Dutch glas, Low German Glas, German Glas, Swedish glas, Icelandic gler.
Senses: examples: text: The tabletop is made of glass.
text: A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
text: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
glosses: An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
examples: text: Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
glosses: Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
examples: text: Would you like a glass of wine?
text: Fill my glass with milk, please.
coordinate_terms: cup#Noun
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bottle#Noun
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can#Noun
glosses: A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
examples: text: There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
text: Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
examples: text: We collected art glass.
glosses: Glassware.
examples: text: She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
text: 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67,
[…] for what lady can abide to love a spruce silken-face courtier, that stands every morning two or three hours learning how to look by his glass, how to speak by his glass, how to sigh by his glass, how to court his mistress by his glass? I would wish him no other plague, but to have a mistress as brittle as glass.
text: Beholding her charms in the glaſs, ſhe wandered over a wilderneſs of vain fancies.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 11:
text: As of old, he took down his portable glass hanging on a nail, and carefully wiping it, replaced it in its case.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 216:
glosses: A mirror.
glosses: A magnifying glass or loupe.
examples: text: Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns, as is well known, and in the early part of the stalking season, when seen through a glass, might be mistaken for hummels […]
ref: 1912, The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games:
text: He got a good glass for six hundred dollars.
His new job gave him leisure for star-gazing.
Often he bid me come and have a look
Up the brass barrel, velvet black inside,
At a star quaking in the other end.
ref: 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Star-splitter.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: A telescope.
examples: text: He caught the rebound off the glass.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
The backboard.
examples: text: He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
examples: text: The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever / But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.
ref: 1938, Louis MacNeice, “Bagpipe Music”, in The Earth Compels, page 59:
glosses: A barometer.
examples: text: glass frog;  glass shrimp;  glass worm
glosses: Transparent or translucent.
raw_tags: in names of species
examples: text: Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ſhe would not liue / The running of one Glaſſe.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: An hourglass.
examples: text: Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Lenses, considered collectively.
examples: text: [N]o sooner had we entered Holbourn than letting down one of the Front Glasses I enquired of every decent-looking Person that we passed ‘If they had seen my Edward?’
ref: 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
text: Ladies are usually conveyed about Calcutta, or any where for short distances, in a kind of palanquin, called a boҫhah... Its deep shape, and its seat, much resemble the [English sedan chair]; but having two doors, one on each side, with one window in front, as well as a small one behind, all furnished with Venetians and glasses, give it, in those respects, some claim to alliance with the [chariot].
ref: 1810, Thomas Williamson, East India Vade-Mecum..., page 323:
glosses: Synonym of window or pane, particularly in vehicles.
synonyms: word: window or pane
word: particularly in vehicles
Derived terms: word: African glass catfish
word: Alamogordo glass
word: anaclastic glass
word: art glass
word: aurora glass
word: backglass
word: beer glass
word: beer-glass
word: bioglass
word: blown glass
word: Bohemian glass
word: borophosphosilicate glass
word: borosilicate glass
word: bottle and glass
word: brandy glass
word: breakaway glass
word: Bristol blue glass
word: burning-glass
word: burning glass
word: cabal glass
word: candy glass
word: car glass
word: carnival glass
word: cellular glass insulation
word: chalcogenide glass
word: champagne glass
word: cheval-glass
word: cheval glass
word: chimney-glass
word: Claude glass
word: Claude Lorraine glass
word: cocktail glass
word: coffee-glass
word: coffee glass
word: cognac glass
word: Collins glass
word: counting glass
word: coverglass
word: crackle glass
word: cranberry glass
word: crown glass
word: cupping-glass
word: cupping glass
word: cut glass
word: cut-glass
word: cylinder glass
word: dope glass
word: dribble glass
word: excise glass
word: eyeglass
word: eyeglasses
word: ferroglass
word: fibreglass
word: fiberglass
word: field glass
word: finger glass
word: flint glass
word: float glass
word: forest glass
word: gall of glass
word: garden glass
word: gate glass
word: gauge glass
word: glasma
word: glasphalt
word: glass à la Psyche
word: glass arm
word: glassblower
word: glassblowing
word: glass blowing
word: glassblown
word: glass blue-eye
word: glass bone disease
word: glass-bottom boat
word: glass cannon
word: glass ceiling
word: glass-ceramic
word: glass child
word: glass chin
word: glasschord
word: glass cleaner
word: glass cliff
word: glass closet
word: glass coach
word: glass cockpit
word: glass-crab
word: glasscutter
word: glass cutter
word: glasscutting
word: glass delusion
word: glass disease
word: glass-door
word: glass door
word: glass eel
word: glass electrode
word: glasser
word: glassery
word: glasses
word: glasseye
word: glass eye
word: glass-faced
word: glass felt
word: glass fiber
word: glass fiber insulation
word: glassfish
word: glassformer
word: glass frog
word: glassful
word: glass garden
word: glass-half-empty
word: glass-half-full
word: glass hammer
word: glass harmonica
word: glass harmonicist
word: glass harp
word: glass harpist
word: glasshouse
word: glassichord
word: glassification
word: glassify
word: glassine
word: glassite
word: glass jaw
word: glassless
word: glasslike
word: glass lizard
word: glassmaker
word: glassmaking
word: glassman
word: glass metal
word: glassmith
word: glass noodle
alt: Vitreledonella richardi
word: glass octopus
word: glass of antimony
word: glass of welcome
word: glass onion
word: glassophone
word: glasspack
word: glass painting
word: glasspaper
word: glass parking lot
word: glass-rope
word: glass shot
word: glass shrimp
word: glass silk
word: glass snail
word: glass snake
word: glass soap
word: glass sponge
word: glass squid
word: glass tear
word: glass teat
word: glass teletype
word: glass terminal
word: glass transition
word: glass transition temperature
word: glassware
word: glasswasher
word: glasswashing
word: glass water
word: glass wool
word: glasswork
word: glassworker
word: glassworking
word: glassworks
word: glass-works
word: glasswort
word: glassy
word: glazen
word: glaziery
word: green glass
word: ground glass
word: ground-glass
word: ground glass joint
word: hand glass
word: heart of glass
word: heavy glass
word: highball glass
word: horizon glass
word: hour-glass
word: hour glass
word: hurricane glass
word: in glass
word: isinglass
word: jelly glass
word: Jena glass
word: keeking-glass
word: laminated glass
word: lead glass
word: Lévy glass
word: liquid glass
word: log-glass
word: looking glass
word: looking-glass
word: lowball glass
word: magnifying glass
word: Mashpi glass frog
word: matted glass
word: mesoglass
word: milk glass
word: mimic glass lizard
word: minute glass
word: multiplying glass
word: Muscovy glass
word: night glass
word: night-glass
word: Night of Broken Glass
word: nonglass
word: object glass
word: old fashioned glass
word: old-fashioned glass
word: on-the-rocks glass
word: opal glass
word: opera glass
word: optical glass
word: Owlglass
word: oxycarbide glass
word: pattern glass
word: people that live in glass houses should not throw stones
word: people that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
word: people who live in glass houses should not throw stones
word: people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
word: perspective glass
word: pier glass
word: pint glass
word: plastiglass
word: plate-glass
word: plate glass
word: plate glass university
word: plate-glass university
word: pony glass
word: preserving glass
word: pressed glass
word: prism glass
word: pulse glass
word: quarter glass
word: quartz glass
word: quizzing glass
word: race glass
word: rainbow glass
word: raise one's glass
word: reglass
word: rock glass
word: rock-glass
word: rocks glass
word: safety glass
word: sandglass
word: sandwich glass
word: sapphire glass
word: satin glass
word: sea glass
word: the glass half-empty
word: the glass half-full
word: shooter glass
word: shot-glass
word: shot glass
word: show glass
word: show-glass
word: sight glass
word: silica glass
word: single pane of glass
word: slideglass
word: soda glass
word: soda-lime glass
word: soluble glass
word: spin glass
word: spyglass
word: stainedglass
word: stained glass
word: storm glass
word: storm in a glass of water
word: sugar glass
word: sunglass
word: superglass
word: taffeta glass
word: tall glass of water
word: the closet is made of glass
word: those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
word: those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
word: through the looking-glass
word: throw stones in a glass house
word: Tiffany glass
word: toastmaster's glass
word: toilet glass
word: tulip glass
word: under glass
word: under the magnifying glass
word: uranium glass
word: uviol glass
word: Vaseline glass
word: Venetian glass
word: vexing glass
word: vignetting glass
word: volcanic glass
word: walk on broken glass
word: watch glass
word: water glass
word: weatherglass
word: weather-glass
word: Wegner's glass lizard
word: whiskey glass
word: windowglass
word: wine glass
word: wine-glass
word: wireglass
word: Wood's glass
word: X-ray absorbing glass
Related terms: glaze
glazier
glazing