glass

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).uncountableusually

• This tabletop is made of glass.
• A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.

Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).broadlycountableuncountable

• Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.

A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.countable

• Would you like a glass of wine?
• Fill my glass with milk, please.

The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.countablemetonymicallyuncountable

• There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.

Glassware.uncountable

• We collected art glass.

A mirror.countableuncountable

• She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.

A magnifying glass or loupe.countableuncountable

A telescope.countableuncountable

• Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns, as is well known, and in the early part of the stalking season, when seen through a glass, might be mistaken for hummels […]
• He got a good glass for six hundred dollars. His new job gave him leisure for star-gazing. Often he bid me come and have a look Up the brass barrel, velvet black inside, At a star quaking in the other end.

A barrier made of solid, transparent material.; The backboard.colloquialcountableuncountable

• He caught the rebound off the glass.

A barrier made of solid, transparent material.; The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.countableuncountable

• He fired the outlet pass off the glass.

To fit with glass; to glaze.transitive

To enclose in glass.transitive

• As Iewels in Christall for some Prince to buy. / Who tendring their own worth from whence they were glast,
• And to ſatisfie my ſelf, that the diverſity came not from the Paper, vvhich one might ſuſpect capable of imbibing the Liquor, and altering the Colour, I made the Tryal upon a flat piece of purely VVhite Glaſs'd Earth, […]

Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass)”).abbreviationalt-ofclipping

To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.UKcolloquialtransitive

• 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.

To bombard an area (most often a planet) with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.transitive

• “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.

To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.transitive

• Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
• One of the keys to glassing effectively is supporting your binoculars. Advanced glassers who scan lots of country for long periods of time, or who use binoculars of 10X power or more, often use a lightweight camera tripod […]

To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.transitive

To reflect; to mirror.archaicreflexive

• Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror.
• Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.

To make glassy.transitive

• Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree.

To become glassy.intransitive

• Bourez had timed it perfectly: a wind that was forecast for the morning began to stir just after his arrival and the sea glassed off for a brief period before the waves grew bigger and bigger.