Definition of Glass

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Definition of Glass

Glass

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.

Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.

Anything made of glass.

A looking-glass; a mirror.

A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.

A weatherglass; a barometer.

To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.

To case in glass.

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

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Glass Quotations

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William Shakespeare

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.
Mitch Hedberg

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
Rodney Dangerfield

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?
Jack LaLanne

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Emo Philips

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney

Glass Translations

glass in Afrikaans is glas
glass in Danish is glas
glass in Dutch is drinkglas, glas
glass in Finnish is juomalasi, lasi
glass in French is verre, vitre
glass in German is Spiegel, Glas, Glas
glass in Italian is calice, vetro
glass in Norwegian is speil, glass
glass in Portuguese is vidro, copo
glass in Spanish is cascara, cristal, vidrio, vaso
glass in Swedish is glas

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