Glass

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glass \Glass\ (gl[.a]s), n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[ae]s; akin
     to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf.
     AS. gl[ae]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v.
     t.]
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     1. 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.
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     Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides;
           thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous),
           red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium,
           yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown;
           gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium,
           emerald green; antimony, yellow.
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     2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance,
        and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
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     3. Anything made of glass. Especially:
        (a) A looking-glass; a mirror.
        (b) 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.
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                  She would not live
                  The running of one glass.         --Shak.
        (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the
            contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous
            liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
        (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the
            plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears
            glasses.
        (e) A weatherglass; a barometer.
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     Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as,
           glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or
           glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
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     {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian},
        {Cut}, etc.
  
     {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest
        plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of
        silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of
        lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of
        crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it
        in the process of blowing.
  
     {Crystal glass}, or {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in the
        Vocabulary.
  
     {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in
        the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally,
        opened out, and flattened.
  
     {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with
        sulphide.
  
     {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
  
     {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for
        the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so
        called because originally private carriages alone had
        glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart.
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              Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from
              which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this
              term, which is never used in America, hired
              carriages that do not go on stands.   --J. F.
                                                    Cooper.
  
     {Glass cutter}.
        (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window
            panes, ets.
        (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and
            polishing.
        (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for
            cutting glass.
  
     {Glass cutting}.
        (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of
            glass into panes with a diamond.
        (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by
            appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand,
            emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied;
            especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth
            ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental
            scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
  
     {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass.
  
     {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative
        effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and
        combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of
        lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting
        and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used
        indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows,
        and the like.
  
     {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used
        for abrasive purposes.
  
     {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion,
        on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
  
     {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass
        into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a
        deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
  
     {Glass soap}, or {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of
        manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take
        away color from the materials for glass.
  
     {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in
        its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in
        a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass.
        Cf. Glass painting.
  
     {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}.
  
     {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made.
  
     {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially
        of a borosilicate of potash.
  
     {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}.
  
     {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates,
        and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and
        the best windows.
  
     {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure
        when hot.
  
     {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium,
        found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder,
        or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for
        rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial
        stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}.
  
     {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
  
     {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or
        annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by
        plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine,
        etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the
        process, {Bastie glass}.
  
     {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above.
  
     {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glass \Glass\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glassed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Glassing}.]
     1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used
        reflexively.
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              Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.
                                                    --Motley.
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              Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in
              tempests.                             --Byron.
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     2. To case in glass. [R.] --Shak.
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     3. To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. --Boyle.
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     4. To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it
        with a glass burnisher.
        [1913 Webster] glassblower

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glass
       n 1: a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
       2: a glass container for holding liquids while drinking [syn: {drinking
          glass}]
       3: the quantity a glass will hold [syn: {glassful}]
       4: a small refracting telescope [syn: {field glass}, {spyglass}]
       5: amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride;
          used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an
          appetite suppressant [syn: {methamphetamine}, {methamphetamine
          hydrochloride}, {Methedrine}, {meth}, {deoxyephedrine}, {chalk},
           {chicken feed}, {crank}, {ice}, {shabu}, {trash}]
       6: a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror [syn: {looking
          glass}]
       7: glassware collectively; "She collected old glass"
       v 1: furnish with glass; "glass the windows" [syn: {glaze}]
       2: scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
       3: enclose with glass; "glass in a porch" [syn: {glass in}]
       4: put in a glass container
       5: become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes
          glaze over when she is bored" [syn: {glaze}, {glass over},
           {glaze over}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  201 Moby Thesaurus words for "glass":
     CM-glass, CR-glass, achromatic lens, adobe, aerological instrument,
     agate glass, alabaster, aneroid barometer, aneroidograph,
     astigmatic lens, barograph, barometer, barometrograph, beaker,
     bifocals, bijouterie, billiard table, binoculars, biscuit, bisque,
     blown glass, board, bottle glass, bowl, bowling alley,
     bowling green, brick, bubble, bullet-resisting glass,
     burning glass, camera, camphor glass, carnival glass, cement,
     ceramic ware, ceramics, cheval glass, china, clapboard,
     clear as glass, coated lens, concave lens, concave mirror,
     concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, convex mirror,
     coralene, costume jewelry, crock, crockery, crown glass, crystal,
     cut glass, diaphane, display case, distorting mirror, eggshell,
     enamelware, eyeglass, eyeglasses, eyepiece, face, fiber glass,
     field glass, firebrick, flat, frosted glass, glass house, glasses,
     glasslike, glassware, glassy, glaze, goblet, goggles, ground glass,
     hand lens, hand mirror, house of cards, hurricane-hunter aircraft,
     hyalescent, hyaline, hygrometer, ice, image, ivory, jewelry, jug,
     junk jewelry, laminated glass, lath, lens, level, light,
     looking glass, lorgnette, lorgnon, magnifier, magnifying glass,
     mahogany, marble, matchwood, meniscus, mercury, microscope, mirror,
     object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, old paper,
     opaline, opera glasses, pane, paper, parchment, paste, piecrust,
     pier glass, plane, plank, plate glass, porcelain, pot, pottery,
     prism, radiosonde, reader, reading glass, rear-view mirror,
     recording barometer, reflector, refractory, revet, rhinestone,
     safety glass, satin, scatter pins, scope, seeing glass, shake,
     shaving mirror, sheathe, shingle, shopwindow, showcase, silk,
     slate, slide, smooth, specs, spectacles, speculum, spy glass,
     spyglass, stained glass, stemware, stone, telephoto lens,
     telescope, tennis court, terrestrial telescope, thatch,
     thermal detector, thermometer, thermostat, tile, tiling,
     toric lens, transparent substance, trifocals, tumbler, urn,
     vacuometer, varifocal lens, vase, velvet, veneer, vitreous,
     vitrics, vitriform, vitrine, wall in, wall up, wallpaper,
     watch crystal, watch glass, weather balloon, weather instrument,
     weather satellite, weather vane, weatherboard, weatherglass,
     window, window glass, window mirror, windowlight, windowpane,
     zoom binoculars, zoom lens
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  glass n. [IBM] Synonym for {silicon}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  GLASS
       
          General LAnguage for System Semantics.
       
          An {Esprit} project at the {University of Nijmegen}.
       
          {(ftp://phoibos.cs.kun.nl/pub/GLASS)}.
       
          (1995-01-25)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  glass
       
          (IBM) {silicon}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Glass
     was known to the Egyptians at a very early period of their
     national history, at least B.C. 1500. Various articles both
     useful and ornamental were made of it, as bottles, vases, etc. A
     glass bottle with the name of Sargon on it was found among the
     ruins of the north-west palace of Nimroud. The Hebrew word
     _zekukith_ (Job 28:17), rendered in the Authorized Version
     "crystal," is rightly rendered in the Revised Version "glass."
     This is the only allusion to glass found in the Old Testament.
     It is referred to in the New Testament in Rev. 4:6; 15:2; 21:18,
     21. In Job 37:18, the word rendered "looking-glass" is in the
     Revised Version properly rendered "mirror," formed, i.e., of
     some metal. (Comp. Ex. 38:8: "looking-glasses" are brazen
     mirrors, R.V.). A mirror is referred to also in James 1:23.