Glass

[glɑːs] or [ɡlæs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a container for holding liquids while drinking.

(noun.) glassware collectively; 'She collected old glass'.

(noun.) the quantity a glass will hold.

(noun.) a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure.

(verb.) put in a glass container.

(verb.) enclose with glass; 'glass in a porch'.

(verb.) scan (game in the forest) with binoculars.

(verb.) furnish with glass; 'glass the windows'.

錄入:泽维尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

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

(v. t.) Anything made of glass.

(v. t.) A looking-glass; a mirror.

(v. t.) 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.

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

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

(v. t.) A weatherglass; a barometer.

(v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.

(v. t.) To case in glass.

(v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

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

錄入:撒迦利亚

解釋/意思:

n. a combination of silica with some alkali or alkaline earth such as lime &c. used for window panes mirrors lenses &c.: anything made of glass esp. a drinking-vessel a mirror &c.: the quantity of liquid a glass holds: any fused substance like glass with a vitreous fracture: (pl.) spectacles.—adj. made of glass.—v.t. to case in glass.—ns. Glass′-blow′er one who blows and fashions glass; Glass′-blow′ing the process of making glass by taking a mass of glass reduced by heat to a viscid state and inflating it; Glass′-coach a coach for hire having glazed windows; Glass′-crab the larval form of rock lobsters &c. but formerly regarded as adults and made into a genus or even family; Glass′-cut′ter; Glass′-cut′ting the act or process of cutting shaping and ornamenting the surface of glass.—adj. Glass′-faced (Shak.) reflecting the sentiments of another as in a mirror.—n. Glass′ful the contents of a glass.—adj. Glass′-gaz′ing (Shak.) addicted to viewing one's self in a mirror.—ns. Glass′-grind′ing the ornamenting of glass by rubbing with sand emery &c.; Glass′-house a glass manufactory: a house made of glass.—adv. Glass′ily.—n. Glass′iness.—adj. Glass′-like.—ns. Glass′-paint′ing the art of producing pictures on glass by means of staining it chemically; Glass′-pā′per paper coated with finely pounded glass and used like sand-paper; Glass′-soap an oxide of manganese and other substances used by glass-blowers to remove colouring from glass; Glass′ware articles made of glass; Glass′-work articles made of glass; Glass′wort a plant so called from its yielding soda used in making glass.—adjs. Glass′y made of or like glass; Glass′y-head′ed (Tenn.) having a bald shining head.—ns. Cut′-glass flint-glass shaped or ornamented by cutting or grinding on a wheel; Ground′-glass any glass that has been depolished by a sand-blast grinding or etching with acids so as to destroy its transparency; Plate′-glass glass cast in large thick plates.—Live in a glass house=to be open to attack or retort.—Musical glasses (see Harmonica).—Water or Soluble glass the soluble silicate of soda or of potash formed when silica is fused with an excess of alkali used for hardening artificial stone as a cement and for rendering calico &c. uninflammable.

錄入:山姆