glass
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable, usually)(usually uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
This tabletop is made of glass.
A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
- 2.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)(countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
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(countable)A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
Would you like a glass of wine?
Fill my glass with milk, please.
- 4.
(countable, metonymically, uncountable)(metonymic) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
- 5.
(uncountable)Glassware.
We collected art glass.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)A mirror.
She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67, […] for what lady can abide to love a spruce silken-face courtier, that stands every morning two or three hours learning how to look by his glass, how to speak by his glass, how to sigh by his glass, how to court his mistress by his glass? I would wish him no other plague, but to have a mistress as brittle as glass.
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(countable, uncountable)A magnifying glass or loupe.
- 8.
(countable, uncountable)A telescope.
- 9.
(sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
- 10.
(countable, uncountable)A barometer.
- 11.
(attributive, countable, uncountable)(attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)An hourglass.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To fit with glass; to glaze.
- 2.
(transitive)To enclose in glass.
- 3.
(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, transitive)Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass)”).
- 4.
(UK, colloquial, transitive)To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
JUDD. Any trouble last night? LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
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.
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.
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(transitive)(transitive, science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
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(transitive)To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
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(transitive)To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- 8.
(archaic, reflexive)To reflect; to mirror.
- 9.
(transitive)To make glassy.
- 10.
(intransitive)To become glassy.
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From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related to to shine (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European - root *ǵʰleh₁- (to shine, shimmer, glow).