glass

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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 telescope.
8. (colloquial) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
9. A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
10. A barometer.
11. Transparent or translucent.
12. (obsolete) An hourglass.
13. (informal) Lenses, considered collectively.
14. A pane of glass; a window (especially of a coach or similar vehicle).

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. (colloquial) 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.

Konzepte

Glas

Becher

Spiegel

Trinkglas

Tasse

Gläser

Kristall

Holzbecher

Krug

Glas -es

Pokal

Flintglas

Lapislazuli

Lasurit

Kristallglas

Brille

verglasen

Becherglas

Molle

bauchiges Weinglas

Weinglas

Spiegel -s

Becher -s

Methamphetamin

Glasware

Glaswaren

Kelchglas

Rückspiegel

Seitenspiegel

Gefäß

Behälter

Behältnis

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɡlɑːs/

Etymologie (Englisch)

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 *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Cognate with West Frisian glês, Dutch glas, Low German Glas, German Glas, Swedish glas, Icelandic gler.

Sätze

She specializes in the field of ancient glass .

Sie hat sich auf das Gebiet des alten Glas spezialisiert.

Steuben then produced primarily colorless art glass .

Steuben produzierte dann hauptsächlich farbloses Kunstglas.