glass
See also: Glass
English
Alternative forms
- glasse (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Cognate with West Frisian glês, Dutch glas, Low German Glas, German Glas, Swedish glas, Icelandic gler.
Pronunciation
- enPR: gläs, IPA(key): /ɡlɑːs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ɡlɑːs]
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [ɡläːs], [ɡlɐːs]
- enPR: glăs, IPA(key): /ɡlæs/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [ɡlæs], [ɡlɛəs], [ɡleəs]
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): [ɡlas], [ɡlæs]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːs, -æs
Noun
a glass (drinking vessel) of milk
glass (countable and uncountable, plural glasses)
- (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).
- The tabletop is made of glass.
- A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
- (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.
- (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- Fill my glass with milk, please.
- (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- (uncountable) Glassware.
- We collected art glass.
- A mirror.
- 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.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 216:
- As of old, he took down his portable glass hanging on a nail, and carefully wiping it, replaced it in its case.
- She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
- 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67,
- A magnifying glass or telescope.
- 1912, The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games
- 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 […]
- 1912, The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games
- (sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- He caught the rebound off the glass.
- (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
- He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- A barometer.
- 1938, Louis MacNeice, “Bagpipe Music”, in The Earth Compels, page 59:
- The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever / But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.
-
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm
- (obsolete) An hourglass.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ſhe would not liue / The running of one Glaſſe.
-
- (uncountable, photography, informal) Lenses, considered collectively.
- Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.
- (now rare) A pane of glass; a window (especially of a coach or similar vehicle).
- 1790, Jane Austen, ‘Love and Freindship’, Juvenilia:
- [N]o sooner had we entered Holbourn than letting down one of the Front Glasses I enquired of every decent-looking Person that we passed ‘If they had seen my Edward?’
- 1790, Jane Austen, ‘Love and Freindship’, Juvenilia:
Hyponyms
(material):
- lechatelierite
- pyrex, Pyrex
Derived terms
Terms derived from glass (noun)
- Alamogordo glass
- anaclastic glass
- art glass
- aurora glass
- beer-glass
- beer glass
- Bohemian glass
- borosilicate glass
- breakaway glass
- burning-glass
- burning glass
- cabal glass
- candy glass
- car glass
- carnival glass
- cellular glass insulation
- chalcogenide glass
- cheval glass
- cheval-glass
- chimney-glass
- Claude glass
- Claude Lorraine glass
- coffee glass
- coffee-glass
- Collins glass
- counting glass
- crown glass
- cupping-glass
- cupping glass
- cut-glass
- cut glass
- cylinder glass
- dope glass
- dribble glass
- excise glass
- eyeglasses
- fibreglass, fiberglass
- field glass
- finger glass
- flint glass
- float glass
- gall of glass
- garden glass
- gauge glass
- glasphalt
- glass à la Psyche
- glass arm
- glassblower
- glass blowing
- glassblowing
- glass blue-eye
- glass bone disease
- glass-bottom boat
- glass cannon
- glass ceiling
- glass-ceramic
- glass chin
- glasschord
- glass cleaner
- glass cliff
- glass closet
- glass coach
- glass cockpit
- glass-crab
- glass cutter
- glass delusion
- glass disease
- glass-door
- glass door
- glass eel
- glass electrode
- glasses
- glass eye
- glass-faced
- glass felt
- glass fiber
- glass fiber insulation
- glassformer
- glass frog
- glass-half-empty
- glass-half-full
- glass hammer
- glass harmonica
- glass harmonicist
- glass harp
- glass harpist
- glasshouse
- glass jaw
- glassless
- glass lizard
- glassmaker
- glass metal
- glass noodle
- glass octopus (Vitreledonella richardi)
- glass of antimony
- glass of welcome
- glass onion
- glass painting
- glass parking lot
- glass-rope
- glass shot
- glass shrimp
- glass silk
- glass snail
- glass snake
- glass soap
- glass sponge
- glass squid
- glass tear
- glass transition
- glass transition temperature
- glassware
- glass water
- glass wool
- glasswork
- glassworker
- glass-works
- glassy
- ground-glass
- ground glass
- ground glass joint
- hand glass
- heart of glass
- heavy glass
- highball glass
- hour glass
- hour-glass
- in glass
- isinglass
- jelly glass
- keeking-glass
- lead glass
- Lévy glass
- liquid glass
- log-glass
- looking glass
- looking-glass
- magnifying glass
- Mashpi glass frog
- matted glass
- milk glass
- minute glass
- multiplying glass
- Muscovy glass
- night-glass
- night glass
- Nouns' glass frog
- object glass
- opal glass
- opera glass
- optical glass
- pattern glass
- people that live in glass houses should not throw stones
- people that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- people who live in glass houses should not throw stones
- people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- perspective glass
- pier glass
- pint glass
- plate-glass
- plate glass
- plate-glass university
- pony glass
- preserving glass
- pressed glass
- prism glass
- pulse glass
- quarter glass
- quizzing glass
- race glass
- rainbow glass
- rock-glass
- rock glass
- rocks glass
- safety glass
- sapphire glass
- satin glass
- sea glass
- see the glass half-empty
- see the glass half-full
- shot glass
- shot-glass
- show glass
- show-glass
- sight glass
- silica glass
- single pane of glass
- soda glass
- soda-lime glass
- soluble glass
- spin glass
- spyglass
- stained glass
- storm glass
- storm in a glass of water
- sugar glass
- taffeta glass
- those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
- those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- throw stones in a glass house
- Tiffany glass
- toilet glass
- tulip glass
- under glass
- under the magnifying glass
- uranium glass
- uviol glass
- Vaseline glass
- Venetian glass
- vignetting glass
- volcanic glass
- watch glass
- water glass
- weather-glass
- Wegner's glass lizard
- wine glass
- wine-glass
- Wood's glass
- X-ray absorbing glass
Related terms
- glaze
- glazier
- glazing
Descendants
- → Gulf Arabic: قلاص (gḷāṣ)
- → Fiji Hindi: gilaas
- → Indonesian: gelas
- → Japanese: グラス (gurasu)
- → Kikuyu: ngirathi
- → Malay: gelas, ݢلس
Translations
substance
|
drinking vessel
|
quantity
|
glassware — see glassware
mirror — see mirror
magnifying glass or telescope
|
sport: barrier made of solid, transparent material
|
barometer — see barometer
attributive: transparent or translucent
|
hourglass — see hourglass
Verb
glass (third-person singular simple present glasses, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)
- (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
- (transitive) To enclose in glass.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- As Iewels in Christall for some Prince to buy.
Who tendring their own worth from whence they were glast,
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
- I made the Tryal upon a flat piece of purely White Glass'd Earth
-
- (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fibreglass).
- (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- 1987, John Godber, Bouncers page 19:
- JUDD. Any trouble last night?
- LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
- 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale page 72:
- 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.
- 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp page 139:
- 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.
- 1987, John Godber, Bouncers page 19:
- (transitive, science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- 2012, Halo: First Strike, page 190:
- “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
- 2012, Halo: First Strike, page 190:
- (transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- 2000, Ben D. Mahaffey, 50 Years of Hunting and Fishing, page 95:
- Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
-
- (transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
- 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 1138660207:
- Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror.
- 1818, Lord Byron, “Canto IV”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, London: John Murray, […], OCLC 1015248873, stanza LXXXIII:
- Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.
-
- (transitive) To make glassy.
- 2018, Harry Leon Wilson, Ruggles of Red Gap, →ISBN, page 199:
- Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree.
-
- (intransitive) To become glassy.
- 2012, Keith Duggan, Cliffs Of Insanity: A Winter On Ireland's Big Waves (page 32)
- 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.
- 2012, Keith Duggan, Cliffs Of Insanity: A Winter On Ireland's Big Waves (page 32)
Translations
to furnish with glass
|
Anagrams
- slags
Manx
Etymology 1
From Old Irish glas (“blue-grey, green”), from Proto-Celtic *glastos.
Adjective
glass
- green (of nature), verdant
- Ta'n londaig hannah jeeaghyn slaneglass. ― The lawn looks quite green already.
- yn faarkeyglass tonnagh foin ― the green billowy sea under us
- yn awin ghlass ― the green river
- grey (of animal), ashen (colour)
- soft, pale, pasty
- raw, unfledged, sappy
- callow (of youth)
Derived terms
- coo glass (“greyhound; tope”)
- glassrey
See also
| bane | lheeah | doo |
| jiarg; feer-yiarg | jiarg-bwee; dhone | bwee; bane-wuigh |
| geayney, glass | ||
| gorrym-ghlass, speyr-ghorrym | gorrym | |
| plooreenagh | jiarg gorrym | jiarg-bane |
Etymology 2
From Old Irish glas (“lock, clasp”).
Noun
glass m (genitive singular glish or gleish, plural glish or gleish)
- lock
- Hooar eh y glass er y dorrys roish. ― He found himself locked out.
- T'eh fo glass. ― He is behind bars.
- Ta glass er my hengey. ― My lips are sealed.
- Ta glass y dorrys er y çheu sthie. ― The door locks on the inside.
- Ta'n ogher shoh gentreil y glass. ― This key goes in the lock.
- Vrish ad y glass. ― They forced the lock.
Verb
glass (verbal noun glassey)
- lock up, secure
Mutation
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| glass | ghlass | nglass |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Middle English
Noun
glass
- Alternative form of glas
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German glas.
Noun
glass n (definite singular glasset, indefinite plural glass, definite plural glassa or glassene)
- glass (a hard and transparent material)
- a glass (container for drink made of glass)
- et glass vin - a glass of wine
- a small container, such as a jar or bottle
Derived terms
Terms derived from glass
|
|
|
See also
- glas (Nynorsk)
References
- “glass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Swedish
Alternative forms
- glace (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from French glace, from Old French glace, from Vulgar Latin *glacia, reformation (with change of declension) of Latin glacies, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlas/
audio (file)
Noun
glass c
- (countable, uncountable) ice cream
- (countable, uncountable) frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water or the like, when served as a popsicle or freeze pop
- Synonym: isglass
Declension
| Declension of glass | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | glass | glassen | glassar | glassarna |
| Genitive | glass | glassens | glassars | glassarnas |
Derived terms
- apelsinglass
- bananglass
- chokladglass
- glassa
- glassbar
- glassbil
- glassbomb
- glassbägare
- glassförsäljare
- glassig
- glasskiosk
- glassmaskin
- glasspinne
- glasstillverkning
- glasstrut
- glasstånd
- glasstårta
- isglass
- jordgubbsglass
- kulglass
- mjukglass
- pinnglass
- päronglass
- smultronglass
- vaniljglass
References
- glass in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- slags