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Substantiivit
- (uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
- A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- (uncountable) Glassware.
- A mirror.
- A magnifying glass or telescope.
- (sport) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
- A barometer.
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- (obsolete) An hourglass.
Verbit
- (transitive) To furnish with glass; to glaze.
- (transitive) To enclose with glass.
- (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- (video games) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
Esimerkit
- The glass is falling hour by hour.
- He has a glass ankle.
- Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.
- Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.
- Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
- “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
- One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.
- I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.
- LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
- JUDD. Any trouble last night?
- She would not live / The running of one glass.
- glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm
- The tabletop is made of glass.
- He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
- He caught the rebound off of the glass.
- We looked through the glass to see stars.
- She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
- We collected art glass.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[...]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
- Would you like a glass of milk?
- Fill my glass with milk please.
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
- A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
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