Definition of glass in English:

glass

noun ɡlɑːsɡlæs

1mass noun A hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles.
the screen is made from glass
as modifier a glass door
Example sentencesExamples
- Silica is one of the basic materials of sand and it forms glass when it fuses.
- Around 600 car parking spaces are planned for the store, which has been designed using a large amount of glass fronting.
- But in this case, the noise was kept down by balancing the amount of glass with drywall.
- Once the milk has cooled, pour it into glass containers and refrigerate immediately.
- Interior windows and glass in doors allow maximum daylight but were sandblasted for privacy.
- I closed my eyes and leaned against the cool glass window, feeling sick.
- Drinks from plastic containers always taste different than those from glass containers.
- Hard materials tend to be very brittle, take glass for instance.
- As the amount of glass used in a house increases, the energy efficiency usually decreases.
- Verify that the sliding glass door and all windows are locked and secure.
- Also there was a long wooden table with benches on either side of it and a tall wooden cupboard with glass windows in the doors.
- The police had expressed concerns about the amount of glass used in the building and its location near a road that could leave it vulnerable to a car bomb.
- For anyone who does not know, glass is a hard, transparent or translucent brittle material that does not dissolve is not flammable.
- The pub's big windows and glass door make it easy to see anyone in the street.
- Marsh samphire, as noted above, is also known as glasswort from its former use in soda glass manufacture.
- Soda is one of the most common ores of sodium found in nature and it was used very early in human history to make glass.
- The metal used was a soft soda lime glass, which in inclined to pitting and will give a misleading impression of age.
- Householders across the district are being urged to take part in a major scheme to boost the amount of glass and cans recycled in Bradford.
- I press my nose against the cool glass of the lobby door, and shade my eyes so I can see past the glare.
- The amount of glass recycled so far amounts to almost ten per cent of the waste produced by local households.
1. 1.1 A substance similar to glass which has solidified from a molten state without crystallizing.
  the black volcanic glass makes the beaches sparkle
  Example sentencesExamples
  They offer chemically inert fluid paths of Teflon, Kel-F, and borosilicate glass.
  A glass is a substance that is non-crystalline yet almost completely undeformable.
  Trehalose may also stabilise tissues by trapping them in an immobile sugar glass.
  He suspects thieves may be responsible but he cannot understand what use they would have with the perspex glass.
2. 1.2 Glassware.
  we sell china and glass
  Example sentencesExamples
  Books went well, as did glass and china ware on the White Elephant stall.
  The firm sells high quality china, glass and collectables.
  Some composites such as precious opal protected between layers of quartz or glass are sold as such.
  In addition, vinegar can be used to remove price labels from glass, wood, and china.
  There will also be antique glass, china, furniture and metalware on display.
  His hard work paid off when the antiques company sold him its entire collection of glass.
  He said his father, a china and glass merchant, was not particularly pleased when he announced he wanted to be an actor.
  Also up for grabs are china, glass and pottery by leading names Wedgwood, Foley, Staffordshire.
  Somehow, it seemed that one of their salesmen was selling far more glass than any of the other members of the sales force.
  Not just for the traditionalist either; some of the modern china and glass designs are stunning.
  It sells ceramics, glass, silver, paper and pretty much anything that takes her fancy.
  Lesser items, such as old magazines, inexpensive glass and china ware, may just sit in boxes.
  Their caravan is warm and homely, with glass and china neatly displayed.
  Synonyms
  glassware, crystal, crystalware
  rare vitrics
3. 1.3 Greenhouses or cold frames considered collectively.
  lettuces grown under glass
  Example sentencesExamples
  The plants grown under glass were exposed to short treatments with supplementary UV-B.
  The variety is even grown under glass in climates as inimical as the Dutch and British to provide grapes for the fruit bowl.
  Flowers for shows earlier in the year are grown under glass at his address in Thorpe Audlin, Pontefract, but for Chelsea he had them growing in a tunnel.
  Under glass you also need to reduce the amount of watering you do and increase the heat a little.
  Genetically engineer algae or other plant species to grow well under lunar conditions under filtered glass.
  Keep pots in a sunny position but watch that leaves of plants under glass don't get sunburned.
2A drinking container made from glass.
a beer glass
Example sentencesExamples
- She called for pubs and bars to serve all bottled drinks in glasses, to discourage drinkers from leaving the premises with them.
- In mitigation, he claimed he was so drunk he forgot the glass was in his hand.
- Sure, we will all eat from different dishes and drink from different glasses, but we will all be able to agree that the meal is delicious.
- I am so used to using plastic cups everywhere that the drink glasses seemed unmanageably heavy and got very cold from the ice!
- The same, I'm told, was true as to proposals that fast-food restaurants use glasses rather than paper cups.
- I once saw a girl drinking beer from a pint glass with a straw.
- It has an important collection of 18th century drinking glasses, a tranquil walled garden and a garden tearoom.
- No doubt a great deal of whisky is drunk in New York, but almost all of it, surely, is drunk from whiskey glasses?
- His picture decorates stickers, cigarette lighters, record sleeves, cups, beer glasses and so on - Che is omnipresent.
- I still find it difficult to drink out of pint glasses at home.
- Other superstitions hold that by continuing to drink out of a glass after the toast is to dilute that toast.
- You pour the wine in a glass, and you drink it as you consume your meal - no tricks, no secrets.
- Both parties must then drink until the glass is dry, whether it contains alcohol or not.
- First of all, you should always be drinking quality beers out of a glass.
- We all lift our glasses and drink the wine down, afraid of what grandma will do if we don't follow through.
- The writer was also extremely enthusiastic about the ‘good selection of wine and very large glasses to drink out of.’
1. 2.1 The contents of a glass.
  have a glass of wine
  Example sentencesExamples
  One York solider threw down the drinking gauntlet believing the popular misconception that Americans only drink small glasses of weak, fizzy beer.
  Tyler grabbed a champagne glass and walked through the crowd, out to the garden.
  But there should have been chaise longues instead of seats; then we could lie back and enjoy the night with a nice glass of malt whisky to hand.
  Drink at least eight glasses of water, herbal teas and unsweetened fruit juice.
  Scientists have discovered that drinking a glass or two of wine a day can actually be beneficial.
  I eat chocolate cake, drink too many glasses of wine and party too late.
  You know, from this angle it looks suspiciously like a glass of coke…
  Price includes a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie.
  I drank a couple of glasses of Champagne which went straight to my head.
  A book that makes you want to find an armchair and a glass of good Burgundy, this is a pacy, well researched history with plenty of human detail to leaven the science.
  After a heavy workout, drink several glasses of water, milk, and juice over a period of a few hours.
  All you need is a hammock, a banana boat sundae, a daiquiri glass and one of those cute little umbrellas.
  I don't want a glass of wine right now, but what if I did?
  He replied that he had drunk ‘two small glasses of beer’ while watching a World Cup football game much earlier in the day.
  While running a marathon will make you lose a lot more water from your body than normal, it is important to drink about eight glasses of fluids every day.
  OK, so if I now have a glass of juice, then I've had three today.
  A local woman who never drinks had several glasses of fruit punch at a party and finished up driving at 64 miles an hour with well over twice the legal limit for alcohol.
  I'm certainly not going to try to say anything wise about a phenomenon that's at its most vivid after a supper of Roquefort, grapes and a glass of good port.
  Try to drink at least four glasses daily and if possible a lot more if deserved.
  After a fix of chocolate, my energy levels would soon crash and burn and by supper-time I'd be wiped out again and desperate for a glass of wine.
  If lunch up the mountain was good value (about £12 for a decent snack and a glass of wine), then dinner was even better.
  She poured another glass of the blue liquid and handed it to him.
  By serving wine by the glass, restaurants open a new realm for wine drinkers.
  Intitially, she claimed a passenger had been driving, but later admitted it had been her at the wheel and she had drunk four large glasses of wine.
  I accompanied my meal with a glass of draught cider for £1.10.
  Take 2 capsules with a large glass of room-temperature water at about 3pm.
  Alcohol consumption should be limited up to two small drinks (one drink = one ounce whisky) or two glasses of beer or wine.
  Downing another glass of the frothy liquid he stood shakily prepared to leave when someone called his name.
  He drank three glasses of beer and drove his electric taxi on the pavement in Bond Street.
  On the empty streets of the Old City, some of the shopkeepers spend the daylight hours playing backgammon and drinking glasses of Arabic coffee.
  Sit back, close your eyes, get some hummus and a glass of tinto de verano or mint tea, switch on the sun lamp and pretend you're anywhere but here - and warm.
  Before that fateful day, my partner was content with a glass of orange juice in the morning.
  After a week, still in pain, I saw my GP who said that I must rest with my feet higher than my thighs, drink twelve glasses of water a day and eat a lot of oranges.
  Perhaps you should have a glass of wine more often.
  The salad was slightly over-salted and consisted of peppers, olives, greens and tomatoes which we washed down with a glass of house white.
  Drinking a couple of glasses creates a feeling of euphoria and a heightening of the senses, at once stimulating and relaxing.
  Unravelling the small package he brought with him, he tipped its contents into a glass of water.
  They go down very nicely with a glass of red wine.
  It's an hour's drive to my parent's house and I was eager to get home and pour myself a refreshing glass of Pineau de Charente, the local aperitif.
3A lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens.
Example sentencesExamples
- This allows you to scrutinize as much of the glass lens elements as possible.
- Somewhere outside there was a street lamp, it was caught in the glass, repeated, magnified and diminished, countless times.
- For shore watching 10 or 12 magnification glasses are better and a telescope on a tripod can be very useful.
- A similarly shaped boundary for a glass lens in air was deduced by both Descartes and Huygens.
- An air bubble in water that is shaped like a normal glass lens would have roughly the opposite effect of the glass lens.
- Feeling around inside he spots the glass lens of a video camera and pulls it out.
- Pinhole photos look relatively sharp but nothing like the quality produced by a fine glass lens.
- Etta was a very austere widow who wore a little glass lens on a chain around her neck and held it up to peer at Norm and I whenever she visited us.
4British A mirror.
she couldn't wait to put the dress on and look in the glass
Example sentencesExamples
- When he sat in front of the massive picture window that framed his easel, the glass mirrored his likeness under a mammoth magnolia tree.
Synonyms
mirror, looking glass
1. 4.1dated A weather glass.
2. 4.2archaic An hourglass.
  every hour the ship's glass was turned

verb ɡlɑːsɡlæs

[with object]

1Cover or enclose with glass.
the inn has a long gallery, now glassed in
Example sentencesExamples
- An internal fiberglass liner is glassed in place and provides much of the structural support and stiffening for the hull.
- What was once the street is now the main lobby, which is glassed in so you can see its dome with original moulding and cornices.
- Exterior cast-in-place shored walkways surround the theaters and are protected with a cantilevered architectural concrete roof system, shaded and glassed in.
- Spend as little time at the airport as possible; avoid heavily glassed areas.
- The carvery is situated in the ‘new’ section of the pub, adjacent to the bar area and has one glassed in section with the roast meats and the bain marie hot boxes for the vegetables and the soup.
- The restaurant is glassed in on two sides, having an elevated floor with computers, while on street level there is the dining area.
- The concourses are glassed in and the station waiting area is quite large and also glassy.
- It has been glassed in and made into an attractive Visitors' Centre.
- This was the entrance to our front porch, which was all glassed in.
- The room is nicely glassed off, so kids can have fun, stay put, and not bother the staid old newspaper readers like me.
- There are ancient rock carvings at the foot of a steep flight of steps; they are glassed over, but they prove worryingly hard to discern.
- The balcony is glassed in, and features corporate boxes.
- The restaurant is now fully air-conditioned, with the front section glassed in.
- Although the arrow slits in the walls are glassed in and electric bulbs take the place of candlelight, as you ascend the narrow, anti-clockwise staircase, the feeling of a different time is strong.
- These stations are in the main all glassed in, and spotlessly clean.
- He followed her down a long hallway to a glassed in boardroom where two men stood waiting.
2(especially in hunting) scan (one's surroundings) with binoculars.
the first day was spent glassing the rolling hills
Example sentencesExamples
- They were so large I thought at first they were bear tracks, and I spent the rest of the day anxiously glassing the cliffs above.
- Opening morning found us perched near the top of some Georgia pines, freezing half to death, overlooking a small field where we had glassed a few good bucks during the summer.
- They stop and pass the binoculars back and forth, glassing the walls.
- We reached the summit, hunkered below the skyline and began glassing the open swoops and dips of sagebrush terrain.
3British informal Hit (someone) in the face with a beer glass.
he glassed the landlord because he'd been chatting to Jo
Example sentencesExamples
- A 22-year-old woman alleged she had been glassed in the face on November 29 last year, leaving her with cuts and a broken nose.
- He was convicted of glassing a man in 1991, and on Monday received a mandatory, new-style life sentence for a second offence of wounding with intent.
- Paramedics helped save the life of a 17-year-old man who suffered serious head injuries after being glassed in the pub at midnight last night.
- A York man was recovering from facial surgery in hospital today after a woman allegedly glassed him during a bar room brawl.
- An electrical engineer has escaped a jail sentence for glassing a former friend in the face, but must pay him £750 compensation.
- A man who glassed a teenager in the face leaving him scarred for life faces being banned from every licensed premises in Bradford.
- A mum left scarred for life after being glassed in the face today praised a judge for sending her attackers to prison.
- If I see someone come in to Ron's bar carrying a copy of it I will glass them.
- When I realised I had been glassed, my immediate thought was, there's so much blood am I going to die?
- A woman was glassed in the face by a man while she out enjoying a drink with friends, it has been revealed.
- But when she was questioned later, she said she believed they were referring to the Friday night and not the Saturday night when her friend was glassed.
- A further 20 stitches were added last May, when he was allegedly glassed by a man in an up-market Sydney club.
- An illegal immigrant who glassed a man in a Chippenham nightclub has been remanded in custody by a judge at Swindon Crown Court.
- A former public relations worker had to have stitches and specialist eye treatment after he was glassed in the face by a former friend a jury was told.
- At least one man will bear the scars of this season forever; he was glassed in a city pub.
- A city broker who glassed a colleague in an unprovoked attack has been jailed.
- A consultation document published by the Department of Health said there are more than 5,000 glassing injuries every year.
- A couple of blokes tried to glass me in the face with a pint tumbler.
4literary Reflect as if in a mirror.
the opposite slopes glassed themselves in the deep dark water

Phrases

the glass is half-full (or half-empty)

Used to refer to an optimistic (or pessimistic) outlook on life.
she remains a person for whom the glass is always half-full, not half-empty
I like to think of myself as a glass half-full kind of guy
Example sentencesExamples
- They can choose the glass is half-empty story, the glass is half-full story or they can write a little of both.
- It's possible to disagree over whether the glass is half-full or half-empty for black Americans.
- The day is half-over, the week is half-over, the glass is half-full.
- On the other hand, there is an argument that the glass is half-full.
- I'm curious from the president's point of view whether the glass is half-empty or half-full.
- Optimists may say that the glass is half-full, pessimists that the glass is half-empty.
- It all depends on whether you believe the glass is half-full or half-empty.
- When people ask if the glass is half-empty or half-full, my answer is: both.

people (who live) in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

proverb You shouldn't criticize others when you have similar faults of your own.
Example sentencesExamples
- Yes, it's an extremely derogatory term, and not one I would use myself, unless I'm angry of course, and even then I would feel uneasy (people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones).
- So people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, eh?
- The shadow environment secretary said: ‘It's all very well criticising the failure of America to sign up to Kyoto, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
- One common test of abstraction is to explain what this means: ‘people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.’

Derivatives

glassful

nounPlural glassfuls ˈɡlɑːsfʊl

Pouring some water in it, I made her down three glassfuls before taking her up to her room.
Example sentencesExamples
- I drink a large glassful of the juice every day and, hey presto, no more ulcers.
- The waitress returned with a glassful of murky whisky.
- When I found one I quickly downed a few glassfuls of water within 5 seconds.
- Myself, I left at about 10.30 pm, having already spotted that the last bottle of red wine in the kitchen only had about one glassful left in it.

glassless

adjective

Minutes later, I'm lounging on my bed and gazing through the glassless windows onto a panorama of paradise.
Example sentencesExamples
- Samoan buses are colourful wooden structures with glassless windows mounted on a truck chassis.
- People leant through the glassless windows watching our browsing.
- The two glassless windows appeared to be little more than too wide cracks in the wood, and the tops of roots made the ground around the building look very uneven.
- We walk past block after block of colonial stone buildings with 12-foot doorways and elaborate lintels, grillwork balconies, and shuttered, glassless windows.
- Reaching over, I picked it up, and walked into the glassless phone booth.

glass-like

adjective

The canopy above him seemed to be a transparent, glass-like material.
Example sentencesExamples
- The unusually fine clay yielded a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish.
- Ice froze in the air, crystallized it into glass-like shards.
- Its surface polishes to a glass-like finish with a neon luminescence.
- The hilt and crosspiece were made of a dark metal, and a thin wire wrapped around cross-guard, attaching it to the chain, while the blade was made of a clear glass-like substance.

Origin

Old English glæs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch glas and German Glas.

The substance glass goes back to ancient Mesopotamia or Phoenicia (modern Lebanon and Syria). Glasses ‘spectacles’ dates from the mid 18th century, although before that people would use a single glass or ‘an eye glass’. ‘Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses’ is by the American wit Dorothy Parker (1893–1967). The proverb people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, dates from the 17th century. People started complaining of the existence of a glass ceiling, meaning an unofficial barrier to advancement at work, especially for a woman, in the early 1980s. Glaze (Late Middle English), to equip with glass, comes from glass and was first used of eyes, in Shakespeare's Richard II: ‘For Sorrowes eyes glazed with blinding tears, Divides one thing entire to many objects.’ Glare (Middle English) first found in the sense ‘dazzling shine’ may be related.

Rhymes

brass, carse, class, coup de grâce, farce, grass, Grasse, impasse, Kars, kick-ass, kvass, Laplace, Maas, Madras, outclass, pass, sparse, stained glass, surpass, upper class, volte-face

Definition of glass in US English:

glass

nounɡlæsɡlas

1A hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda, lime, and sometimes other ingredients and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles.
as modifier a glass door
a piece of glass
Example sentencesExamples
- Marsh samphire, as noted above, is also known as glasswort from its former use in soda glass manufacture.
- I press my nose against the cool glass of the lobby door, and shade my eyes so I can see past the glare.
- But in this case, the noise was kept down by balancing the amount of glass with drywall.
- The metal used was a soft soda lime glass, which in inclined to pitting and will give a misleading impression of age.
- Verify that the sliding glass door and all windows are locked and secure.
- I closed my eyes and leaned against the cool glass window, feeling sick.
- Hard materials tend to be very brittle, take glass for instance.
- Soda is one of the most common ores of sodium found in nature and it was used very early in human history to make glass.
- For anyone who does not know, glass is a hard, transparent or translucent brittle material that does not dissolve is not flammable.
- Silica is one of the basic materials of sand and it forms glass when it fuses.
- Drinks from plastic containers always taste different than those from glass containers.
- Around 600 car parking spaces are planned for the store, which has been designed using a large amount of glass fronting.
- The pub's big windows and glass door make it easy to see anyone in the street.
- The police had expressed concerns about the amount of glass used in the building and its location near a road that could leave it vulnerable to a car bomb.
- Interior windows and glass in doors allow maximum daylight but were sandblasted for privacy.
- Once the milk has cooled, pour it into glass containers and refrigerate immediately.
- Also there was a long wooden table with benches on either side of it and a tall wooden cupboard with glass windows in the doors.
- As the amount of glass used in a house increases, the energy efficiency usually decreases.
- The amount of glass recycled so far amounts to almost ten per cent of the waste produced by local households.
- Householders across the district are being urged to take part in a major scheme to boost the amount of glass and cans recycled in Bradford.
1. 1.1 A substance similar to glass which has solidified from a molten state without crystallizing.
  Example sentencesExamples
  A glass is a substance that is non-crystalline yet almost completely undeformable.
  He suspects thieves may be responsible but he cannot understand what use they would have with the perspex glass.
  Trehalose may also stabilise tissues by trapping them in an immobile sugar glass.
  They offer chemically inert fluid paths of Teflon, Kel-F, and borosilicate glass.
2. 1.2 Glassware.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Not just for the traditionalist either; some of the modern china and glass designs are stunning.
  In addition, vinegar can be used to remove price labels from glass, wood, and china.
  He said his father, a china and glass merchant, was not particularly pleased when he announced he wanted to be an actor.
  The firm sells high quality china, glass and collectables.
  It sells ceramics, glass, silver, paper and pretty much anything that takes her fancy.
  His hard work paid off when the antiques company sold him its entire collection of glass.
  Also up for grabs are china, glass and pottery by leading names Wedgwood, Foley, Staffordshire.
  Their caravan is warm and homely, with glass and china neatly displayed.
  Lesser items, such as old magazines, inexpensive glass and china ware, may just sit in boxes.
  Some composites such as precious opal protected between layers of quartz or glass are sold as such.
  Books went well, as did glass and china ware on the White Elephant stall.
  There will also be antique glass, china, furniture and metalware on display.
  Somehow, it seemed that one of their salesmen was selling far more glass than any of the other members of the sales force.
  Synonyms
  glassware, crystal, crystalware
3. 1.3 Greenhouses or cold frames considered collectively.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Keep pots in a sunny position but watch that leaves of plants under glass don't get sunburned.
  The variety is even grown under glass in climates as inimical as the Dutch and British to provide grapes for the fruit bowl.
  Under glass you also need to reduce the amount of watering you do and increase the heat a little.
  The plants grown under glass were exposed to short treatments with supplementary UV-B.
  Flowers for shows earlier in the year are grown under glass at his address in Thorpe Audlin, Pontefract, but for Chelsea he had them growing in a tunnel.
  Genetically engineer algae or other plant species to grow well under lunar conditions under filtered glass.
2A drinking container made from glass.
a beer glass
Example sentencesExamples
- The writer was also extremely enthusiastic about the ‘good selection of wine and very large glasses to drink out of.’
- I still find it difficult to drink out of pint glasses at home.
- We all lift our glasses and drink the wine down, afraid of what grandma will do if we don't follow through.
- I once saw a girl drinking beer from a pint glass with a straw.
- First of all, you should always be drinking quality beers out of a glass.
- She called for pubs and bars to serve all bottled drinks in glasses, to discourage drinkers from leaving the premises with them.
- Sure, we will all eat from different dishes and drink from different glasses, but we will all be able to agree that the meal is delicious.
- Other superstitions hold that by continuing to drink out of a glass after the toast is to dilute that toast.
- It has an important collection of 18th century drinking glasses, a tranquil walled garden and a garden tearoom.
- The same, I'm told, was true as to proposals that fast-food restaurants use glasses rather than paper cups.
- In mitigation, he claimed he was so drunk he forgot the glass was in his hand.
- His picture decorates stickers, cigarette lighters, record sleeves, cups, beer glasses and so on - Che is omnipresent.
- You pour the wine in a glass, and you drink it as you consume your meal - no tricks, no secrets.
- Both parties must then drink until the glass is dry, whether it contains alcohol or not.
- No doubt a great deal of whisky is drunk in New York, but almost all of it, surely, is drunk from whiskey glasses?
- I am so used to using plastic cups everywhere that the drink glasses seemed unmanageably heavy and got very cold from the ice!
1. 2.1 The liquid or amount of liquid contained in a glass; a glassful.
  a glass of lemonade
  I'll have another glass, please
  Example sentencesExamples
  She poured another glass of the blue liquid and handed it to him.
  A local woman who never drinks had several glasses of fruit punch at a party and finished up driving at 64 miles an hour with well over twice the legal limit for alcohol.
  A book that makes you want to find an armchair and a glass of good Burgundy, this is a pacy, well researched history with plenty of human detail to leaven the science.
  One York solider threw down the drinking gauntlet believing the popular misconception that Americans only drink small glasses of weak, fizzy beer.
  I accompanied my meal with a glass of draught cider for £1.10.
  Before that fateful day, my partner was content with a glass of orange juice in the morning.
  Drinking a couple of glasses creates a feeling of euphoria and a heightening of the senses, at once stimulating and relaxing.
  Sit back, close your eyes, get some hummus and a glass of tinto de verano or mint tea, switch on the sun lamp and pretend you're anywhere but here - and warm.
  Downing another glass of the frothy liquid he stood shakily prepared to leave when someone called his name.
  You know, from this angle it looks suspiciously like a glass of coke…
  Take 2 capsules with a large glass of room-temperature water at about 3pm.
  It's an hour's drive to my parent's house and I was eager to get home and pour myself a refreshing glass of Pineau de Charente, the local aperitif.
  They go down very nicely with a glass of red wine.
  I don't want a glass of wine right now, but what if I did?
  I eat chocolate cake, drink too many glasses of wine and party too late.
  Tyler grabbed a champagne glass and walked through the crowd, out to the garden.
  After a week, still in pain, I saw my GP who said that I must rest with my feet higher than my thighs, drink twelve glasses of water a day and eat a lot of oranges.
  Alcohol consumption should be limited up to two small drinks (one drink = one ounce whisky) or two glasses of beer or wine.
  While running a marathon will make you lose a lot more water from your body than normal, it is important to drink about eight glasses of fluids every day.
  The salad was slightly over-salted and consisted of peppers, olives, greens and tomatoes which we washed down with a glass of house white.
  Unravelling the small package he brought with him, he tipped its contents into a glass of water.
  Intitially, she claimed a passenger had been driving, but later admitted it had been her at the wheel and she had drunk four large glasses of wine.
  After a fix of chocolate, my energy levels would soon crash and burn and by supper-time I'd be wiped out again and desperate for a glass of wine.
  I'm certainly not going to try to say anything wise about a phenomenon that's at its most vivid after a supper of Roquefort, grapes and a glass of good port.
  By serving wine by the glass, restaurants open a new realm for wine drinkers.
  OK, so if I now have a glass of juice, then I've had three today.
  All you need is a hammock, a banana boat sundae, a daiquiri glass and one of those cute little umbrellas.
  Scientists have discovered that drinking a glass or two of wine a day can actually be beneficial.
  I drank a couple of glasses of Champagne which went straight to my head.
  He replied that he had drunk ‘two small glasses of beer’ while watching a World Cup football game much earlier in the day.
  Try to drink at least four glasses daily and if possible a lot more if deserved.
  Price includes a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie.
  Drink at least eight glasses of water, herbal teas and unsweetened fruit juice.
  On the empty streets of the Old City, some of the shopkeepers spend the daylight hours playing backgammon and drinking glasses of Arabic coffee.
  But there should have been chaise longues instead of seats; then we could lie back and enjoy the night with a nice glass of malt whisky to hand.
  Perhaps you should have a glass of wine more often.
  He drank three glasses of beer and drove his electric taxi on the pavement in Bond Street.
  If lunch up the mountain was good value (about £12 for a decent snack and a glass of wine), then dinner was even better.
  After a heavy workout, drink several glasses of water, milk, and juice over a period of a few hours.
3A lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens.
Example sentencesExamples
- A similarly shaped boundary for a glass lens in air was deduced by both Descartes and Huygens.
- Somewhere outside there was a street lamp, it was caught in the glass, repeated, magnified and diminished, countless times.
- Pinhole photos look relatively sharp but nothing like the quality produced by a fine glass lens.
- For shore watching 10 or 12 magnification glasses are better and a telescope on a tripod can be very useful.
- This allows you to scrutinize as much of the glass lens elements as possible.
- Feeling around inside he spots the glass lens of a video camera and pulls it out.
- Etta was a very austere widow who wore a little glass lens on a chain around her neck and held it up to peer at Norm and I whenever she visited us.
- An air bubble in water that is shaped like a normal glass lens would have roughly the opposite effect of the glass lens.
4British A mirror.
Example sentencesExamples
- When he sat in front of the massive picture window that framed his easel, the glass mirrored his likeness under a mammoth magnolia tree.
Synonyms
mirror, looking glass
1. 4.1archaic An hourglass.

verbɡlæsɡlas

[with object]

1Cover or enclose with glass.
the inn has a long balcony, now glassed in
Example sentencesExamples
- It has been glassed in and made into an attractive Visitors' Centre.
- The restaurant is glassed in on two sides, having an elevated floor with computers, while on street level there is the dining area.
- What was once the street is now the main lobby, which is glassed in so you can see its dome with original moulding and cornices.
- Spend as little time at the airport as possible; avoid heavily glassed areas.
- These stations are in the main all glassed in, and spotlessly clean.
- There are ancient rock carvings at the foot of a steep flight of steps; they are glassed over, but they prove worryingly hard to discern.
- The concourses are glassed in and the station waiting area is quite large and also glassy.
- The balcony is glassed in, and features corporate boxes.
- The room is nicely glassed off, so kids can have fun, stay put, and not bother the staid old newspaper readers like me.
- The restaurant is now fully air-conditioned, with the front section glassed in.
- The carvery is situated in the ‘new’ section of the pub, adjacent to the bar area and has one glassed in section with the roast meats and the bain marie hot boxes for the vegetables and the soup.
- An internal fiberglass liner is glassed in place and provides much of the structural support and stiffening for the hull.
- He followed her down a long hallway to a glassed in boardroom where two men stood waiting.
- This was the entrance to our front porch, which was all glassed in.
- Exterior cast-in-place shored walkways surround the theaters and are protected with a cantilevered architectural concrete roof system, shaded and glassed in.
- Although the arrow slits in the walls are glassed in and electric bulbs take the place of candlelight, as you ascend the narrow, anti-clockwise staircase, the feeling of a different time is strong.
2(especially in hunting) scan (one's surroundings) with binoculars.
the first day was spent glassing the rolling hills
Example sentencesExamples
- They were so large I thought at first they were bear tracks, and I spent the rest of the day anxiously glassing the cliffs above.
- Opening morning found us perched near the top of some Georgia pines, freezing half to death, overlooking a small field where we had glassed a few good bucks during the summer.
- We reached the summit, hunkered below the skyline and began glassing the open swoops and dips of sagebrush terrain.
- They stop and pass the binoculars back and forth, glassing the walls.
3literary Reflect as if in a mirror.
the opposite slopes glassed themselves in the deep dark water

Phrases

the glass is half-full (or half-empty)

Used to refer to an optimistic (or pessimistic) outlook on life.
she remains a person for whom the glass is always half-full
I like to think of myself as a glass half-full kind of guy
Example sentencesExamples
- It all depends on whether you believe the glass is half-full or half-empty.
- They can choose the glass is half-empty story, the glass is half-full story or they can write a little of both.
- It's possible to disagree over whether the glass is half-full or half-empty for black Americans.
- I'm curious from the president's point of view whether the glass is half-empty or half-full.
- When people ask if the glass is half-empty or half-full, my answer is: both.
- The day is half-over, the week is half-over, the glass is half-full.
- Optimists may say that the glass is half-full, pessimists that the glass is half-empty.
- On the other hand, there is an argument that the glass is half-full.

people (who live) in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

proverb You shouldn't criticize others when you have similar faults of your own.
Example sentencesExamples
- So people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, eh?
- One common test of abstraction is to explain what this means: ‘people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.’
- The shadow environment secretary said: ‘It's all very well criticising the failure of America to sign up to Kyoto, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
- Yes, it's an extremely derogatory term, and not one I would use myself, unless I'm angry of course, and even then I would feel uneasy (people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones).

Origin

Old English glæs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch glas and German Glas.

单词	glass
释义	Definition of glass in English: glass noun ɡlɑːsɡlæs 1mass noun A hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles. the screen is made from glass as modifier a glass door Example sentencesExamples Silica is one of the basic materials of sand and it forms glass when it fuses. Around 600 car parking spaces are planned for the store, which has been designed using a large amount of glass fronting. But in this case, the noise was kept down by balancing the amount of glass with drywall. Once the milk has cooled, pour it into glass containers and refrigerate immediately. Interior windows and glass in doors allow maximum daylight but were sandblasted for privacy. I closed my eyes and leaned against the cool glass window, feeling sick. Drinks from plastic containers always taste different than those from glass containers. Hard materials tend to be very brittle, take glass for instance. As the amount of glass used in a house increases, the energy efficiency usually decreases. Verify that the sliding glass door and all windows are locked and secure. Also there was a long wooden table with benches on either side of it and a tall wooden cupboard with glass windows in the doors. The police had expressed concerns about the amount of glass used in the building and its location near a road that could leave it vulnerable to a car bomb. For anyone who does not know, glass is a hard, transparent or translucent brittle material that does not dissolve is not flammable. The pub's big windows and glass door make it easy to see anyone in the street. Marsh samphire, as noted above, is also known as glasswort from its former use in soda glass manufacture. Soda is one of the most common ores of sodium found in nature and it was used very early in human history to make glass. The metal used was a soft soda lime glass, which in inclined to pitting and will give a misleading impression of age. Householders across the district are being urged to take part in a major scheme to boost the amount of glass and cans recycled in Bradford. I press my nose against the cool glass of the lobby door, and shade my eyes so I can see past the glare. The amount of glass recycled so far amounts to almost ten per cent of the waste produced by local households. 1.1 A substance similar to glass which has solidified from a molten state without crystallizing. the black volcanic glass makes the beaches sparkle Example sentencesExamples They offer chemically inert fluid paths of Teflon, Kel-F, and borosilicate glass. A glass is a substance that is non-crystalline yet almost completely undeformable. Trehalose may also stabilise tissues by trapping them in an immobile sugar glass. He suspects thieves may be responsible but he cannot understand what use they would have with the perspex glass. 1.2 Glassware. we sell china and glass Example sentencesExamples Books went well, as did glass and china ware on the White Elephant stall. The firm sells high quality china, glass and collectables. Some composites such as precious opal protected between layers of quartz or glass are sold as such. In addition, vinegar can be used to remove price labels from glass, wood, and china. There will also be antique glass, china, furniture and metalware on display. His hard work paid off when the antiques company sold him its entire collection of glass. He said his father, a china and glass merchant, was not particularly pleased when he announced he wanted to be an actor. Also up for grabs are china, glass and pottery by leading names Wedgwood, Foley, Staffordshire. Somehow, it seemed that one of their salesmen was selling far more glass than any of the other members of the sales force. Not just for the traditionalist either; some of the modern china and glass designs are stunning. It sells ceramics, glass, silver, paper and pretty much anything that takes her fancy. Lesser items, such as old magazines, inexpensive glass and china ware, may just sit in boxes. Their caravan is warm and homely, with glass and china neatly displayed. Synonyms glassware, crystal, crystalware rare vitrics 1.3 Greenhouses or cold frames considered collectively. lettuces grown under glass Example sentencesExamples The plants grown under glass were exposed to short treatments with supplementary UV-B. The variety is even grown under glass in climates as inimical as the Dutch and British to provide grapes for the fruit bowl. Flowers for shows earlier in the year are grown under glass at his address in Thorpe Audlin, Pontefract, but for Chelsea he had them growing in a tunnel. Under glass you also need to reduce the amount of watering you do and increase the heat a little. Genetically engineer algae or other plant species to grow well under lunar conditions under filtered glass. Keep pots in a sunny position but watch that leaves of plants under glass don't get sunburned. 2A drinking container made from glass. a beer glass Example sentencesExamples She called for pubs and bars to serve all bottled drinks in glasses, to discourage drinkers from leaving the premises with them. In mitigation, he claimed he was so drunk he forgot the glass was in his hand. Sure, we will all eat from different dishes and drink from different glasses, but we will all be able to agree that the meal is delicious. I am so used to using plastic cups everywhere that the drink glasses seemed unmanageably heavy and got very cold from the ice! The same, I'm told, was true as to proposals that fast-food restaurants use glasses rather than paper cups. I once saw a girl drinking beer from a pint glass with a straw. It has an important collection of 18th century drinking glasses, a tranquil walled garden and a garden tearoom. No doubt a great deal of whisky is drunk in New York, but almost all of it, surely, is drunk from whiskey glasses? His picture decorates stickers, cigarette lighters, record sleeves, cups, beer glasses and so on - Che is omnipresent. I still find it difficult to drink out of pint glasses at home. Other superstitions hold that by continuing to drink out of a glass after the toast is to dilute that toast. You pour the wine in a glass, and you drink it as you consume your meal - no tricks, no secrets. Both parties must then drink until the glass is dry, whether it contains alcohol or not. First of all, you should always be drinking quality beers out of a glass. We all lift our glasses and drink the wine down, afraid of what grandma will do if we don't follow through. The writer was also extremely enthusiastic about the ‘good selection of wine and very large glasses to drink out of.’ 2.1 The contents of a glass. have a glass of wine Example sentencesExamples One York solider threw down the drinking gauntlet believing the popular misconception that Americans only drink small glasses of weak, fizzy beer. Tyler grabbed a champagne glass and walked through the crowd, out to the garden. But there should have been chaise longues instead of seats; then we could lie back and enjoy the night with a nice glass of malt whisky to hand. Drink at least eight glasses of water, herbal teas and unsweetened fruit juice. Scientists have discovered that drinking a glass or two of wine a day can actually be beneficial. I eat chocolate cake, drink too many glasses of wine and party too late. You know, from this angle it looks suspiciously like a glass of coke… Price includes a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie. I drank a couple of glasses of Champagne which went straight to my head. A book that makes you want to find an armchair and a glass of good Burgundy, this is a pacy, well researched history with plenty of human detail to leaven the science. After a heavy workout, drink several glasses of water, milk, and juice over a period of a few hours. All you need is a hammock, a banana boat sundae, a daiquiri glass and one of those cute little umbrellas. I don't want a glass of wine right now, but what if I did? He replied that he had drunk ‘two small glasses of beer’ while watching a World Cup football game much earlier in the day. While running a marathon will make you lose a lot more water from your body than normal, it is important to drink about eight glasses of fluids every day. OK, so if I now have a glass of juice, then I've had three today. A local woman who never drinks had several glasses of fruit punch at a party and finished up driving at 64 miles an hour with well over twice the legal limit for alcohol. I'm certainly not going to try to say anything wise about a phenomenon that's at its most vivid after a supper of Roquefort, grapes and a glass of good port. Try to drink at least four glasses daily and if possible a lot more if deserved. After a fix of chocolate, my energy levels would soon crash and burn and by supper-time I'd be wiped out again and desperate for a glass of wine. If lunch up the mountain was good value (about £12 for a decent snack and a glass of wine), then dinner was even better. She poured another glass of the blue liquid and handed it to him. By serving wine by the glass, restaurants open a new realm for wine drinkers. Intitially, she claimed a passenger had been driving, but later admitted it had been her at the wheel and she had drunk four large glasses of wine. I accompanied my meal with a glass of draught cider for £1.10. Take 2 capsules with a large glass of room-temperature water at about 3pm. Alcohol consumption should be limited up to two small drinks (one drink = one ounce whisky) or two glasses of beer or wine. Downing another glass of the frothy liquid he stood shakily prepared to leave when someone called his name. He drank three glasses of beer and drove his electric taxi on the pavement in Bond Street. On the empty streets of the Old City, some of the shopkeepers spend the daylight hours playing backgammon and drinking glasses of Arabic coffee. Sit back, close your eyes, get some hummus and a glass of tinto de verano or mint tea, switch on the sun lamp and pretend you're anywhere but here - and warm. Before that fateful day, my partner was content with a glass of orange juice in the morning. After a week, still in pain, I saw my GP who said that I must rest with my feet higher than my thighs, drink twelve glasses of water a day and eat a lot of oranges. Perhaps you should have a glass of wine more often. The salad was slightly over-salted and consisted of peppers, olives, greens and tomatoes which we washed down with a glass of house white. Drinking a couple of glasses creates a feeling of euphoria and a heightening of the senses, at once stimulating and relaxing. Unravelling the small package he brought with him, he tipped its contents into a glass of water. They go down very nicely with a glass of red wine. It's an hour's drive to my parent's house and I was eager to get home and pour myself a refreshing glass of Pineau de Charente, the local aperitif. 3A lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens. Example sentencesExamples This allows you to scrutinize as much of the glass lens elements as possible. Somewhere outside there was a street lamp, it was caught in the glass, repeated, magnified and diminished, countless times. For shore watching 10 or 12 magnification glasses are better and a telescope on a tripod can be very useful. A similarly shaped boundary for a glass lens in air was deduced by both Descartes and Huygens. An air bubble in water that is shaped like a normal glass lens would have roughly the opposite effect of the glass lens. Feeling around inside he spots the glass lens of a video camera and pulls it out. Pinhole photos look relatively sharp but nothing like the quality produced by a fine glass lens. Etta was a very austere widow who wore a little glass lens on a chain around her neck and held it up to peer at Norm and I whenever she visited us. 4British A mirror. she couldn't wait to put the dress on and look in the glass Example sentencesExamples When he sat in front of the massive picture window that framed his easel, the glass mirrored his likeness under a mammoth magnolia tree. Synonyms mirror, looking glass 4.1dated A weather glass. 4.2archaic An hourglass. every hour the ship's glass was turned verb ɡlɑːsɡlæs [with object] 1Cover or enclose with glass. the inn has a long gallery, now glassed in Example sentencesExamples An internal fiberglass liner is glassed in place and provides much of the structural support and stiffening for the hull. What was once the street is now the main lobby, which is glassed in so you can see its dome with original moulding and cornices. Exterior cast-in-place shored walkways surround the theaters and are protected with a cantilevered architectural concrete roof system, shaded and glassed in. Spend as little time at the airport as possible; avoid heavily glassed areas. The carvery is situated in the ‘new’ section of the pub, adjacent to the bar area and has one glassed in section with the roast meats and the bain marie hot boxes for the vegetables and the soup. The restaurant is glassed in on two sides, having an elevated floor with computers, while on street level there is the dining area. The concourses are glassed in and the station waiting area is quite large and also glassy. It has been glassed in and made into an attractive Visitors' Centre. This was the entrance to our front porch, which was all glassed in. The room is nicely glassed off, so kids can have fun, stay put, and not bother the staid old newspaper readers like me. There are ancient rock carvings at the foot of a steep flight of steps; they are glassed over, but they prove worryingly hard to discern. The balcony is glassed in, and features corporate boxes. The restaurant is now fully air-conditioned, with the front section glassed in. Although the arrow slits in the walls are glassed in and electric bulbs take the place of candlelight, as you ascend the narrow, anti-clockwise staircase, the feeling of a different time is strong. These stations are in the main all glassed in, and spotlessly clean. He followed her down a long hallway to a glassed in boardroom where two men stood waiting. 2(especially in hunting) scan (one's surroundings) with binoculars. the first day was spent glassing the rolling hills Example sentencesExamples They were so large I thought at first they were bear tracks, and I spent the rest of the day anxiously glassing the cliffs above. Opening morning found us perched near the top of some Georgia pines, freezing half to death, overlooking a small field where we had glassed a few good bucks during the summer. They stop and pass the binoculars back and forth, glassing the walls. We reached the summit, hunkered below the skyline and began glassing the open swoops and dips of sagebrush terrain. 3British informal Hit (someone) in the face with a beer glass. he glassed the landlord because he'd been chatting to Jo Example sentencesExamples A 22-year-old woman alleged she had been glassed in the face on November 29 last year, leaving her with cuts and a broken nose. He was convicted of glassing a man in 1991, and on Monday received a mandatory, new-style life sentence for a second offence of wounding with intent. Paramedics helped save the life of a 17-year-old man who suffered serious head injuries after being glassed in the pub at midnight last night. A York man was recovering from facial surgery in hospital today after a woman allegedly glassed him during a bar room brawl. An electrical engineer has escaped a jail sentence for glassing a former friend in the face, but must pay him £750 compensation. A man who glassed a teenager in the face leaving him scarred for life faces being banned from every licensed premises in Bradford. A mum left scarred for life after being glassed in the face today praised a judge for sending her attackers to prison. If I see someone come in to Ron's bar carrying a copy of it I will glass them. When I realised I had been glassed, my immediate thought was, there's so much blood am I going to die? A woman was glassed in the face by a man while she out enjoying a drink with friends, it has been revealed. But when she was questioned later, she said she believed they were referring to the Friday night and not the Saturday night when her friend was glassed. A further 20 stitches were added last May, when he was allegedly glassed by a man in an up-market Sydney club. An illegal immigrant who glassed a man in a Chippenham nightclub has been remanded in custody by a judge at Swindon Crown Court. A former public relations worker had to have stitches and specialist eye treatment after he was glassed in the face by a former friend a jury was told. At least one man will bear the scars of this season forever; he was glassed in a city pub. A city broker who glassed a colleague in an unprovoked attack has been jailed. A consultation document published by the Department of Health said there are more than 5,000 glassing injuries every year. A couple of blokes tried to glass me in the face with a pint tumbler. 4literary Reflect as if in a mirror. the opposite slopes glassed themselves in the deep dark water Phrases the glass is half-full (or half-empty) Used to refer to an optimistic (or pessimistic) outlook on life. she remains a person for whom the glass is always half-full, not half-empty I like to think of myself as a glass half-full kind of guy Example sentencesExamples They can choose the glass is half-empty story, the glass is half-full story or they can write a little of both. It's possible to disagree over whether the glass is half-full or half-empty for black Americans. The day is half-over, the week is half-over, the glass is half-full. On the other hand, there is an argument that the glass is half-full. I'm curious from the president's point of view whether the glass is half-empty or half-full. Optimists may say that the glass is half-full, pessimists that the glass is half-empty. It all depends on whether you believe the glass is half-full or half-empty. When people ask if the glass is half-empty or half-full, my answer is: both. people (who live) in glass houses shouldn't throw stones proverb You shouldn't criticize others when you have similar faults of your own. Example sentencesExamples Yes, it's an extremely derogatory term, and not one I would use myself, unless I'm angry of course, and even then I would feel uneasy (people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones). So people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, eh? The shadow environment secretary said: ‘It's all very well criticising the failure of America to sign up to Kyoto, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. One common test of abstraction is to explain what this means: ‘people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.’ Derivatives glassful nounPlural glassfuls ˈɡlɑːsfʊl Pouring some water in it, I made her down three glassfuls before taking her up to her room. Example sentencesExamples I drink a large glassful of the juice every day and, hey presto, no more ulcers. The waitress returned with a glassful of murky whisky. When I found one I quickly downed a few glassfuls of water within 5 seconds. Myself, I left at about 10.30 pm, having already spotted that the last bottle of red wine in the kitchen only had about one glassful left in it. glassless adjective Minutes later, I'm lounging on my bed and gazing through the glassless windows onto a panorama of paradise. Example sentencesExamples Samoan buses are colourful wooden structures with glassless windows mounted on a truck chassis. People leant through the glassless windows watching our browsing. The two glassless windows appeared to be little more than too wide cracks in the wood, and the tops of roots made the ground around the building look very uneven. We walk past block after block of colonial stone buildings with 12-foot doorways and elaborate lintels, grillwork balconies, and shuttered, glassless windows. Reaching over, I picked it up, and walked into the glassless phone booth. glass-like adjective The canopy above him seemed to be a transparent, glass-like material. Example sentencesExamples The unusually fine clay yielded a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish. Ice froze in the air, crystallized it into glass-like shards. Its surface polishes to a glass-like finish with a neon luminescence. The hilt and crosspiece were made of a dark metal, and a thin wire wrapped around cross-guard, attaching it to the chain, while the blade was made of a clear glass-like substance. Origin Old English glæs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch glas and German Glas. The substance glass goes back to ancient Mesopotamia or Phoenicia (modern Lebanon and Syria). Glasses ‘spectacles’ dates from the mid 18th century, although before that people would use a single glass or ‘an eye glass’. ‘Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses’ is by the American wit Dorothy Parker (1893–1967). The proverb people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, dates from the 17th century. People started complaining of the existence of a glass ceiling, meaning an unofficial barrier to advancement at work, especially for a woman, in the early 1980s. Glaze (Late Middle English), to equip with glass, comes from glass and was first used of eyes, in Shakespeare's Richard II: ‘For Sorrowes eyes glazed with blinding tears, Divides one thing entire to many objects.’ Glare (Middle English) first found in the sense ‘dazzling shine’ may be related. Rhymes brass, carse, class, coup de grâce, farce, grass, Grasse, impasse, Kars, kick-ass, kvass, Laplace, Maas, Madras, outclass, pass, sparse, stained glass, surpass, upper class, volte-face noun.1 phr. Definition of glass in US English: glass nounɡlæsɡlas 1A hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda, lime, and sometimes other ingredients and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles. as modifier a glass door a piece of glass Example sentencesExamples Marsh samphire, as noted above, is also known as glasswort from its former use in soda glass manufacture. I press my nose against the cool glass of the lobby door, and shade my eyes so I can see past the glare. But in this case, the noise was kept down by balancing the amount of glass with drywall. The metal used was a soft soda lime glass, which in inclined to pitting and will give a misleading impression of age. Verify that the sliding glass door and all windows are locked and secure. I closed my eyes and leaned against the cool glass window, feeling sick. Hard materials tend to be very brittle, take glass for instance. Soda is one of the most common ores of sodium found in nature and it was used very early in human history to make glass. For anyone who does not know, glass is a hard, transparent or translucent brittle material that does not dissolve is not flammable. Silica is one of the basic materials of sand and it forms glass when it fuses. Drinks from plastic containers always taste different than those from glass containers. Around 600 car parking spaces are planned for the store, which has been designed using a large amount of glass fronting. The pub's big windows and glass door make it easy to see anyone in the street. The police had expressed concerns about the amount of glass used in the building and its location near a road that could leave it vulnerable to a car bomb. Interior windows and glass in doors allow maximum daylight but were sandblasted for privacy. Once the milk has cooled, pour it into glass containers and refrigerate immediately. Also there was a long wooden table with benches on either side of it and a tall wooden cupboard with glass windows in the doors. As the amount of glass used in a house increases, the energy efficiency usually decreases. The amount of glass recycled so far amounts to almost ten per cent of the waste produced by local households. Householders across the district are being urged to take part in a major scheme to boost the amount of glass and cans recycled in Bradford. 1.1 A substance similar to glass which has solidified from a molten state without crystallizing. Example sentencesExamples A glass is a substance that is non-crystalline yet almost completely undeformable. He suspects thieves may be responsible but he cannot understand what use they would have with the perspex glass. Trehalose may also stabilise tissues by trapping them in an immobile sugar glass. They offer chemically inert fluid paths of Teflon, Kel-F, and borosilicate glass. 1.2 Glassware. Example sentencesExamples Not just for the traditionalist either; some of the modern china and glass designs are stunning. In addition, vinegar can be used to remove price labels from glass, wood, and china. He said his father, a china and glass merchant, was not particularly pleased when he announced he wanted to be an actor. The firm sells high quality china, glass and collectables. It sells ceramics, glass, silver, paper and pretty much anything that takes her fancy. His hard work paid off when the antiques company sold him its entire collection of glass. Also up for grabs are china, glass and pottery by leading names Wedgwood, Foley, Staffordshire. Their caravan is warm and homely, with glass and china neatly displayed. Lesser items, such as old magazines, inexpensive glass and china ware, may just sit in boxes. Some composites such as precious opal protected between layers of quartz or glass are sold as such. Books went well, as did glass and china ware on the White Elephant stall. There will also be antique glass, china, furniture and metalware on display. Somehow, it seemed that one of their salesmen was selling far more glass than any of the other members of the sales force. Synonyms glassware, crystal, crystalware 1.3 Greenhouses or cold frames considered collectively. Example sentencesExamples Keep pots in a sunny position but watch that leaves of plants under glass don't get sunburned. The variety is even grown under glass in climates as inimical as the Dutch and British to provide grapes for the fruit bowl. Under glass you also need to reduce the amount of watering you do and increase the heat a little. The plants grown under glass were exposed to short treatments with supplementary UV-B. Flowers for shows earlier in the year are grown under glass at his address in Thorpe Audlin, Pontefract, but for Chelsea he had them growing in a tunnel. Genetically engineer algae or other plant species to grow well under lunar conditions under filtered glass. 2A drinking container made from glass. a beer glass Example sentencesExamples The writer was also extremely enthusiastic about the ‘good selection of wine and very large glasses to drink out of.’ I still find it difficult to drink out of pint glasses at home. We all lift our glasses and drink the wine down, afraid of what grandma will do if we don't follow through. I once saw a girl drinking beer from a pint glass with a straw. First of all, you should always be drinking quality beers out of a glass. She called for pubs and bars to serve all bottled drinks in glasses, to discourage drinkers from leaving the premises with them. Sure, we will all eat from different dishes and drink from different glasses, but we will all be able to agree that the meal is delicious. Other superstitions hold that by continuing to drink out of a glass after the toast is to dilute that toast. It has an important collection of 18th century drinking glasses, a tranquil walled garden and a garden tearoom. The same, I'm told, was true as to proposals that fast-food restaurants use glasses rather than paper cups. In mitigation, he claimed he was so drunk he forgot the glass was in his hand. His picture decorates stickers, cigarette lighters, record sleeves, cups, beer glasses and so on - Che is omnipresent. You pour the wine in a glass, and you drink it as you consume your meal - no tricks, no secrets. Both parties must then drink until the glass is dry, whether it contains alcohol or not. No doubt a great deal of whisky is drunk in New York, but almost all of it, surely, is drunk from whiskey glasses? I am so used to using plastic cups everywhere that the drink glasses seemed unmanageably heavy and got very cold from the ice! 2.1 The liquid or amount of liquid contained in a glass; a glassful. a glass of lemonade I'll have another glass, please Example sentencesExamples She poured another glass of the blue liquid and handed it to him. A local woman who never drinks had several glasses of fruit punch at a party and finished up driving at 64 miles an hour with well over twice the legal limit for alcohol. A book that makes you want to find an armchair and a glass of good Burgundy, this is a pacy, well researched history with plenty of human detail to leaven the science. One York solider threw down the drinking gauntlet believing the popular misconception that Americans only drink small glasses of weak, fizzy beer. I accompanied my meal with a glass of draught cider for £1.10. Before that fateful day, my partner was content with a glass of orange juice in the morning. Drinking a couple of glasses creates a feeling of euphoria and a heightening of the senses, at once stimulating and relaxing. Sit back, close your eyes, get some hummus and a glass of tinto de verano or mint tea, switch on the sun lamp and pretend you're anywhere but here - and warm. Downing another glass of the frothy liquid he stood shakily prepared to leave when someone called his name. You know, from this angle it looks suspiciously like a glass of coke… Take 2 capsules with a large glass of room-temperature water at about 3pm. It's an hour's drive to my parent's house and I was eager to get home and pour myself a refreshing glass of Pineau de Charente, the local aperitif. They go down very nicely with a glass of red wine. I don't want a glass of wine right now, but what if I did? I eat chocolate cake, drink too many glasses of wine and party too late. Tyler grabbed a champagne glass and walked through the crowd, out to the garden. After a week, still in pain, I saw my GP who said that I must rest with my feet higher than my thighs, drink twelve glasses of water a day and eat a lot of oranges. Alcohol consumption should be limited up to two small drinks (one drink = one ounce whisky) or two glasses of beer or wine. While running a marathon will make you lose a lot more water from your body than normal, it is important to drink about eight glasses of fluids every day. The salad was slightly over-salted and consisted of peppers, olives, greens and tomatoes which we washed down with a glass of house white. Unravelling the small package he brought with him, he tipped its contents into a glass of water. Intitially, she claimed a passenger had been driving, but later admitted it had been her at the wheel and she had drunk four large glasses of wine. After a fix of chocolate, my energy levels would soon crash and burn and by supper-time I'd be wiped out again and desperate for a glass of wine. I'm certainly not going to try to say anything wise about a phenomenon that's at its most vivid after a supper of Roquefort, grapes and a glass of good port. By serving wine by the glass, restaurants open a new realm for wine drinkers. OK, so if I now have a glass of juice, then I've had three today. All you need is a hammock, a banana boat sundae, a daiquiri glass and one of those cute little umbrellas. Scientists have discovered that drinking a glass or two of wine a day can actually be beneficial. I drank a couple of glasses of Champagne which went straight to my head. He replied that he had drunk ‘two small glasses of beer’ while watching a World Cup football game much earlier in the day. Try to drink at least four glasses daily and if possible a lot more if deserved. Price includes a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie. Drink at least eight glasses of water, herbal teas and unsweetened fruit juice. On the empty streets of the Old City, some of the shopkeepers spend the daylight hours playing backgammon and drinking glasses of Arabic coffee. But there should have been chaise longues instead of seats; then we could lie back and enjoy the night with a nice glass of malt whisky to hand. Perhaps you should have a glass of wine more often. He drank three glasses of beer and drove his electric taxi on the pavement in Bond Street. If lunch up the mountain was good value (about £12 for a decent snack and a glass of wine), then dinner was even better. After a heavy workout, drink several glasses of water, milk, and juice over a period of a few hours. 3A lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens. Example sentencesExamples A similarly shaped boundary for a glass lens in air was deduced by both Descartes and Huygens. Somewhere outside there was a street lamp, it was caught in the glass, repeated, magnified and diminished, countless times. Pinhole photos look relatively sharp but nothing like the quality produced by a fine glass lens. For shore watching 10 or 12 magnification glasses are better and a telescope on a tripod can be very useful. This allows you to scrutinize as much of the glass lens elements as possible. Feeling around inside he spots the glass lens of a video camera and pulls it out. Etta was a very austere widow who wore a little glass lens on a chain around her neck and held it up to peer at Norm and I whenever she visited us. An air bubble in water that is shaped like a normal glass lens would have roughly the opposite effect of the glass lens. 4British A mirror. Example sentencesExamples When he sat in front of the massive picture window that framed his easel, the glass mirrored his likeness under a mammoth magnolia tree. Synonyms mirror, looking glass 4.1archaic An hourglass. verbɡlæsɡlas [with object] 1Cover or enclose with glass. the inn has a long balcony, now glassed in Example sentencesExamples It has been glassed in and made into an attractive Visitors' Centre. The restaurant is glassed in on two sides, having an elevated floor with computers, while on street level there is the dining area. What was once the street is now the main lobby, which is glassed in so you can see its dome with original moulding and cornices. Spend as little time at the airport as possible; avoid heavily glassed areas. These stations are in the main all glassed in, and spotlessly clean. There are ancient rock carvings at the foot of a steep flight of steps; they are glassed over, but they prove worryingly hard to discern. The concourses are glassed in and the station waiting area is quite large and also glassy. The balcony is glassed in, and features corporate boxes. The room is nicely glassed off, so kids can have fun, stay put, and not bother the staid old newspaper readers like me. The restaurant is now fully air-conditioned, with the front section glassed in. The carvery is situated in the ‘new’ section of the pub, adjacent to the bar area and has one glassed in section with the roast meats and the bain marie hot boxes for the vegetables and the soup. An internal fiberglass liner is glassed in place and provides much of the structural support and stiffening for the hull. He followed her down a long hallway to a glassed in boardroom where two men stood waiting. This was the entrance to our front porch, which was all glassed in. Exterior cast-in-place shored walkways surround the theaters and are protected with a cantilevered architectural concrete roof system, shaded and glassed in. Although the arrow slits in the walls are glassed in and electric bulbs take the place of candlelight, as you ascend the narrow, anti-clockwise staircase, the feeling of a different time is strong. 2(especially in hunting) scan (one's surroundings) with binoculars. the first day was spent glassing the rolling hills Example sentencesExamples They were so large I thought at first they were bear tracks, and I spent the rest of the day anxiously glassing the cliffs above. Opening morning found us perched near the top of some Georgia pines, freezing half to death, overlooking a small field where we had glassed a few good bucks during the summer. We reached the summit, hunkered below the skyline and began glassing the open swoops and dips of sagebrush terrain. They stop and pass the binoculars back and forth, glassing the walls. 3literary Reflect as if in a mirror. the opposite slopes glassed themselves in the deep dark water Phrases the glass is half-full (or half-empty) Used to refer to an optimistic (or pessimistic) outlook on life. she remains a person for whom the glass is always half-full I like to think of myself as a glass half-full kind of guy Example sentencesExamples It all depends on whether you believe the glass is half-full or half-empty. They can choose the glass is half-empty story, the glass is half-full story or they can write a little of both. It's possible to disagree over whether the glass is half-full or half-empty for black Americans. I'm curious from the president's point of view whether the glass is half-empty or half-full. When people ask if the glass is half-empty or half-full, my answer is: both. The day is half-over, the week is half-over, the glass is half-full. Optimists may say that the glass is half-full, pessimists that the glass is half-empty. On the other hand, there is an argument that the glass is half-full. people (who live) in glass houses shouldn't throw stones proverb You shouldn't criticize others when you have similar faults of your own. Example sentencesExamples So people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, eh? One common test of abstraction is to explain what this means: ‘people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.’ The shadow environment secretary said: ‘It's all very well criticising the failure of America to sign up to Kyoto, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Yes, it's an extremely derogatory term, and not one I would use myself, unless I'm angry of course, and even then I would feel uneasy (people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones). Origin Old English glæs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch glas and German Glas. noun.1 phr.
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