glass

Definitions of glass in various dictionaries:

noun - a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

noun - a container for holding liquids while drinking

noun - the quantity a glass will hold

noun - a small refracting telescope

noun - an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride

noun - a mirror

noun - glassware collectively

verb - furnish with glass

verb - scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

verb - enclose with glass

verb - put in a glass container

verb - become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance

Any of a large class of materials with highly variable mechanical and optical properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization, are typically made by silicates fusing with boric oxide, aluminum oxide, or phosphorus pentoxide, are generally hard, brittle, and transparent or translucent, and are considered to be supercooled liquids rather than true solids.

A drinking vessel.

A mirror.

A barometer.

A window or windowpane.

A device, such as a monocle or spyglass, containing a lens or lenses and used as an aid to vision.

The quantity contained by a drinking vessel; a glassful.

Objects made of glass; glassware.

To enclose or encase with glass.

To put into a glass container.

To provide with glass or glass parts.

To make glassy; glaze.

To see reflected, as in a mirror.

To reflect.

To scan (a tract of land or forest, for example) with an optical instrument.

To become glassy.

To use an optical instrument, as in looking for game.

verb - to encase in glass (a transparent substance)

GLASS - Glass is a non-crystalline amorphous solid that is often transparent and has widespread practical, technological, and decorative usage in, for exampl...