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单词 glass-blowing
释义

Definition of glass-blowing in English:

glass-blowing

nounˈɡlɑːsˌbləʊɪŋ
mass noun
  • The craft of making glassware by blowing air into semi-molten glass through a long tube.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Traditional Lebanese crafts include basketry, carpet weaving, ceramics and pottery, copper-and metalworking, embroidery, glass-blowing, and gold-and silversmithing.
    • It can withstand heavy traffic without significant wear and can handle the high temperatures in the glass-blowing facilities.
    • In the 17th century, we learn of the introduction of smoking tobacco and after that there is an impressive display about 18th century Waterford, glass-blowing and the Georgian legacy in architecture.
    • Like several of Taiwan's other localized festivals - Hsinchu's glass-blowing and Hualien's marble - sculpting festivals - the Steel and Iron Festival features art that draws on materials once vital to its local economy.
    • Cultivate an unusual talent like bellydancing or glass-blowing and start a new career.
    • Visitors looking for a less ‘interactive’ attraction can pay a visit to Langkawi Crystal, Malaysia's only glass-blowing factory, which is several kilometres north of the capital Kuah.
    • Glass vessels were known in the Ancient world and became common during Roman times, when the techniques of glass-blowing spread throughout the Roman empire.
    • For many years, I've been longing to try what I saw as one of the most difficult crafts of all: glass-blowing.
    • At the funfair, visitors will also have the opportunity to view the traditional art of Italian glass-blowing.
    • A glass-blowing demonstration at the Science Festival showed how, with skill and steady hands, glass can be coaxed into a vast array of different pieces.
    • Although the bottom of the ‘hookah’ was earthen in the beginning, it turned into glass once glass-blowing became an innovative technique.
    • In the afternoon there is time to explore the city, or join excursions to the famous food market beside the Rialto Bridge and the glass-blowing factories on the island of Murano.
    • Interestingly, the blow pipe wasn't invented until the 1st century BC and so glass-blowing is unknown before then.

Derivatives

  • glass-blower

  • nounˈɡlɑːsˌbləʊə
    • Then you can stroll around the special interest shops, spend time in one of the three excellent small galleries, or watch the glass-blowers or ceramcists in action.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His was made from glass by a glass-blower who made laboratory equipment, test-tubes, pipettes and so on.
      • He's now a scientific glass-blower at the university and repairs broken laboratory equipment and makes specialised glassware.
      • The way she puts it, though, ‘At this point I'm primarily a glass-blower and a painter.’
      • It is notable in the fact that she grew up around a very old glass works, and in fact, her father is a third generation glass-blower.
 
 
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