English Explanatory Dictionary

glass

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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).
  2. Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
  3. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
  4. The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
  5. Glassware.
  6. A mirror.
  7. A magnifying glass or loupe.
  8. A telescope.
  9. A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
  10. The backboard.
  11. The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
  12. A barometer.
verb
  1. To fit with glass; to glaze.
  2. To enclose in glass.
  3. Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass)”).
  4. To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
  5. To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
  6. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
  7. To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
  8. To reflect; to mirror.
  9. To make glassy.
  10. To become glassy.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. A solution stack consisting of the GemStone database and application server, Linux operating system, Apache web server, Smalltalk programming language, and Seaside web framework.

Pronunciation

gläs /ɡlɑːs/ En-uk-a glass.ogg glăs /ɡlæs/ [ɡlɛəs] [ɡleəs] En-us-glass.ogg [ɡläːs] [ɡlɐːs] [ɡlas] [ɡläs]

Word forms

glass glasses glasse glassing glassed

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.

Synonyms

window or pane particularly in vehicles

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 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

Translations

Finnish: pleksi
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