glass

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

cup

mirror

🪞

tumbler

crystal

drinking glass

goblet

bottle

glaze

looking-glass

binoculars

mug

jar

🫙

vessel

glass over

ice

🧊

glaze over

looking glass

beaker

window

🪟

vitreous

panel

field glass

spyglass

meth

glassful

pane

methamphetamine

glassware

reflector

glazed

speculum

speed

bowl

chalk

enamel

trash

eyeglasses

👓

lens

chicken feed

vitrify

crank

Methedrine

glasses

deoxyephedrine

methamphetamine hydrochloride

shabu

glass in

velocity

verre

vitriform

water glass

wine glass

🍷

glass ball

drinking vessel

glasswork

hand glass

sand-glass

wind chimes

bocal

made of glass

GL

keeking-glass

Tina

drinkware

balloon

🎈

beer

🍺

break

bucket

🪣

caillou

capped

case

container

cupful

decanter

de flint

elan

facer

field-glasses

flashlight

🔦

flint

flint glass

glassy

greenhouse

head

hour-glass

hyaline

jug

looking

look-see

magnifying glass

mica

of

pace

pannikin

paper cup

pot

rate

receptacle

signboard

small glass

spectacle

spectacles

stone

🪨

swing

telescope

🔭

tin

torch

tub

tweak

vase

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ɡlɑːs/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: glas

Herdado de Old English: glæs

Relativo a frisón occidental: glês

Relativo a neerlandés: glas

Relativo a baixo alemán: Glas

Relativo a alemán: Glas

Relativo a sueco: glas

Relativo a islandés: gler

In summary

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.

Frases

She specializes in the field of ancient glass .

The furnaces shut down and the liquid glass cooled and hardened .

Steuben then produced primarily colorless art glass .