glass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: glasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glasse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: This tabletop is made of glass.
A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
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.
gloss: Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
gloss: A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Would you like a glass of wine?
Fill my glass with milk, please.
gloss: The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
metonymically
uncountable
examples: There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
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.
gloss: Glassware.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We collected art glass.
gloss: A mirror.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
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.
Beholding her charms in the glaſs, ſhe wandered over a wilderneſs of vain fancies.
As of old, he took down his portable glass hanging on a nail, and carefully wiping it, replaced it in its case.
gloss: A magnifying glass or loupe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A telescope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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 […]
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.
gloss: A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: He caught the rebound off the glass.
gloss: A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
gloss: A barometer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Transparent or translucent.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: glass frog;  glass shrimp;  glass worm
gloss: An hourglass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ſhe would not liue / The running of one Glaſſe.
gloss: Lenses, considered collectively.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.
gloss: Synonym of window or pane, particularly in vehicles.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: [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?’
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].
Related words: glaze
glazier
glazing
Derived words: African glass catfish
Alamogordo glass
anaclastic glass
art glass
aurora glass
backglass
beer glass
beer-glass
bioglass
blown glass
Bohemian glass
borophosphosilicate glass
borosilicate glass
bottle and glass
brandy glass
breakaway glass
Bristol blue glass
burning glass
burning-glass
cabal glass
candy glass
car glass
carnival glass
cellular glass insulation
chalcogenide glass
champagne glass
cheval-glass
cheval glass
chimney-glass
Claude glass
Claude Lorraine glass
cocktail glass
coffee glass
coffee-glass
cognac glass
Collins glass
cooling glass
counting glass
coverglass
crackle glass
cranberry glass
crown glass
cupping-glass
cupping glass
cut-glass
cut glass
cylinder glass
dope glass
dribble glass
excise glass
eyeglass
eyeglasses
ferroglass
fibreglass
fiberglass
field glass
finger glass
flint glass
float glass
forest glass
gall of glass
garden glass
gate glass
gauge glass
glasma
glasphalt
glass à la Psyche
glass arm
glassblower
glassblowing
glass blowing
glassblown
glass blue-eye
glass bone disease
glass bottle
glass-bottom boat
glass cannon
glass ceiling
glass-ceramic
glass child
glass chin
glasschord
glass cleaner
glass cliff
glass closet
glass coach
glass cockpit
glass-crab
glasscutter
glass cutter
glasscutting
glass delusion
glass disease
glass-door
glass door
glass eel
glass electrode
glasser
glassery
glasses
glasseye
glass eye
glass-faced
glass felt
glass fiber
glass fiber insulation
glass fibre
glassfish
glassformer
glass frog
glassful
glass garden
glass-half-empty
glass-half-full
glass hammer
glass harmonica
glass harmonicist
glass harp
glass harpist
glass-hearted
glasshouse
glassichord
glassification
glassify
glassine
glassite
glass jaw
glassless
glasslike
glass lizard
glassmaker
glassmaking
glassman
glass metal
glassmith
glass noodle
glass octopus
glass of antimony
glass of welcome
glass onion
glassophone
glasspack
glass painting
glasspaper
glass parking lot
glass-rope
glass shot
glass shrimp
glass silk
glass snail
glass snake
glass soap
glass sponge
glass squid
glass tear
glass teat
glass teletype
glass terminal
glass-to-glass
glass transition
glass transition temperature
glassware
glasswasher
glasswashing
glass water
glass wool
glasswork
glassworker
glassworking
glassworks
glass-works
glasswort
glassy
glazen
glaziery
green glass
ground-glass
ground glass
ground glass joint
hand glass
heart of glass
heavy glass
highball glass
horizon glass
hour glass
hour-glass
hurricane glass
in glass
isinglass
jelly glass
Jena glass
keeking-glass
laminated glass
lead glass
Lévy glass
liquid glass
log-glass
looking glass
looking-glass
lowball glass
magnifying glass
Mashpi glass frog
matted glass
mesoglass
milk glass
mimic glass lizard
minute glass
multiplying glass
Muscovy glass
night-glass
night glass
Night of Broken Glass
nonglass
object glass
old-fashioned glass
old fashioned glass
on-the-rocks glass
opal glass
opera glass
optical glass
Owlglass
oxycarbide glass
pattern glass
people that live in glass houses should not throw stones
people that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
people who live in glass houses should not throw stones
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
perspective glass
pier glass
pint glass
plastiglass
plate glass
plate-glass
plate glass university
plate-glass university
pony glass
preserving glass
pressed glass
prism glass
pulse glass
quarter glass
quartz glass
quizzing glass
race glass
rainbow glass
raise one's glass
reglass
rock glass
rock-glass
rocks glass
safety glass
sandglass
sandwich glass
sapphire glass
satin glass
scrying glass
sea glass
the glass half-empty
the glass half-full
shooter glass
shot glass
shot-glass
show-glass
show glass
sight glass
silica glass
single pane of glass
slideglass
soda glass
soda-lime glass
soluble glass
spin glass
spyglass
stained glass
stainedglass
storm glass
storm in a glass of water
sugar glass
sunglass
superglass
taffeta glass
tall glass of water
the closet is glass
the closet is made of glass
those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
through the looking-glass
throw stones in a glass house
Tiffany glass
toastmaster's glass
toilet glass
tulip glass
under glass
under the magnifying glass
uranium glass
uviol glass
Vaseline glass
Venetian glass
vexing glass
vignetting glass
volcanic glass
walk on broken glass
watch glass
water glass
weatherglass
weather-glass
Wegner's glass lizard
whiskey glass
windowglass
wine glass
wine-glass
wireglass
Wood's glass
X-ray absorbing glass
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: pleksi