glass 音标拼音: [gl'æs]
n .
U 玻璃;
U 玻璃器皿;
C 玻璃杯;
C 镜子,透镜;眼镜,望远镜
U 玻璃;
U 玻璃器皿;
C 玻璃杯;
C 镜子,透镜;眼镜,望远镜
glass 玻璃
glass n 1 :
a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure 2 :
a container for holding liquids while drinking [
synonym : {
glass },
{
drinking glass }]
3 :
the quantity a glass will hold [
synonym : {
glass }, {
glassful }]
4 :
a small refracting telescope [
synonym : {
field glass }, {
glass },
{
spyglass }]
5 :
an amphetamine derivative (
trade name Methedrine )
used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride ;
used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant [
synonym :
{
methamphetamine }, {
methamphetamine hydrochloride },
{
Methedrine }, {
meth }, {
deoxyephedrine }, {
chalk }, {
chicken feed }, {
crank }, {
glass }, {
ice }, {
shabu }, {
trash }]
6 :
a mirror ;
usually a ladies '
dressing mirror [
synonym : {
looking glass }, {
glass }]
7 :
glassware collectively ; "
She collected old glass "
v 1 :
furnish with glass ; "
glass the windows " [
synonym : {
glass },
{
glaze }]
2 :
scan (
game in the forest )
with binoculars 3 :
enclose with glass ; "
glass in a porch " [
synonym : {
glass }, {
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 " [
synonym : {
glaze }, {
glass }, {
glass over }, {
glaze over }]
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 .]
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 . (
Chem .)
Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance ,
and a conchoidal fracture ,
and usually produced by fusion .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
Glass is much used adjectively or in combination ;
as ,
glass maker ,
or glassmaker ;
glass making or glassmaking ;
glass blower or glassblower ,
etc .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
Glass \
Glass \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Glassed };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Glassing }.]
1 .
To reflect ,
as in a mirror ;
to mirror ; --
used reflexively .
[
1913 Webster ]
Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror .
--
Motley .
[
1913 Webster ]
Where the Almighty '
s form glasses itself in tempests . --
Byron .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
To case in glass . [
R .] --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
To cover or furnish with glass ;
to glaze . --
Boyle .
[
1913 Webster ]
4 .
To smooth or polish anything ,
as leater ,
by rubbing it with a glass burnisher .
[
1913 Webster ]
glassblower 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 (
IBM ) {
silicon }.
[{
Jargon File }]
glass :
n . [
IBM ]
Synonym for silicon .
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 .
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