glassnoun
uk/ɡlɑːs/us/ɡlæs/glass noun (SUBSTANCE)
A1 [ U ] a hard, transparent material, used to make windows, bottles, and other objects:
[ U ] objects made from glass when thought of as a group:
in a glasshouse:
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- a chipped glass
- clear glass
- office furnishings in glass, leather, and chrome
- A stone hit the window and cracked the glass.
- The road was covered with fragments of glass from the shattered window.
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Glass
- blow
- crystal
- cut glass
- fibreglass
- frost
- frosted
- glass cutter
- glass fibre
- glassblower
- glazier
- glazing
- looking glass
- mirror
- mirrored
- paste
- Pyrex
- safety glass
- shatterproof
- smoked
- stained glass
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glass noun (CONTAINER)
A1 [ C ] a small container for drinks made of glass or similar material, with a flat base and usually with no handle:
A1 a type or amount of drink contained in a glass:
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- She'd had a couple of glasses of champagne and was starting to feel light-headed.
- He got up and refilled their glasses.
- On a hot day it's lovely to hear the chink of ice in a glass.
- Would you like a glass of wine?
- He'd left sticky fingermarks all over the glass.
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Glass
- blow
- crystal
- cut glass
- fibreglass
- frost
- frosted
- glass cutter
- glass fibre
- glassblower
- glazier
- glazing
- looking glass
- mirror
- mirrored
- paste
- Pyrex
- safety glass
- shatterproof
- smoked
- stained glass
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glass noun (FOR IMPROVING SIGHT)
More examples
- I usually wear contact lenses, but I sometimes wear glasses when my eyes are tired.
- He wears glasses for reading.
A1 two small pieces of special glass or plastic in a frame worn in front of the eyes to improve sight:
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Eyesight, glasses & lenses
- (as) blind as a bat idiom
- 20/20 vision
- age-related macular degeneration
- AMD
- Balint's syndrome
- blepharospasm
- blind side
- blindly
- ciliary
- cross-eyed
- dispensing optician
- horn-rimmed
- lorgnette
- nearsighted
- ophthalmologist
- optic
- optometrist
- sightless
- spectacle
- twenty-twenty vision
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glass noun (DEVICE)
a barometer :
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Weather & climate - general words
- ambient
- aneroid barometer
- atmospherics
- aurora
- barometer
- barometric pressure
- climatic
- clime
- frontal system
- low-pressure
- meteorology
- microclimate
- pollen count
- rare
- rarefied
- the aurora australis
- the Met Office
- weather
- weather station
- zone
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