Word: glass Part of Speech: noun 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, Low German and German Glas, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish glas, Norwegian Bokmål glass, Icelandic gler. Pronunciation: /ɡlɑːs/, /ɡlæs/, [ɡlɛəs], [ɡleəs], [ɡläːs] 1. 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). Labels: uncountable, usually Example: This tabletop is made of glass. Example: A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid. 2. Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice). Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application. 3. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material. Labels: countable Example: Would you like a glass of wine? Example: Fill my glass with milk, please. 4. The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel. Labels: countable, metonymically, uncountable Example: There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce. Example: Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence. 5. Glassware. Labels: uncountable Example: We collected art glass. 6. A mirror. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She adjusted her lipstick in the glass. Example: 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. 7. A magnifying glass or loupe. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A telescope. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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 […] Example: 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. 9. A barrier made of solid, transparent material. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: He caught the rebound off the glass. 10. A barrier made of solid, transparent material. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He fired the outlet pass off the glass. 11. A barometer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 12. Transparent or translucent. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm 13. An hourglass. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ſhe would not liue / The running of one Glaſſe. 14. Lenses, considered collectively. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass. 15. Synonym of window or pane, particularly in vehicles. Labels: archaic, countable Example: [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?’ Example: 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].