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glass

12 definitions • 18 examples
1
a hard, transparent material, used to make windows, bottles, and other objects:

Examples:

a glass jar/dish/ornament
pane of glass It's a huge window made from a single pane of glass.
2
objects made from glass when thought of as a group:

Examples:

The museum has a fine collection of valuable glass.
3
in a glasshouse:

Examples:

In cool climates you have to grow tropical plants under glass.
4
a small container for drinks made of glass or similar material, with a flat base and usually with no handle:

Examples:

beer glass The bartender refilled my beer glass.
wine glass He accidentally broke one of their wine glasses.
She poured some milk into a glass.
5
a type or amount of drink contained in a glass:

Examples:

Would you like a glass of water?
6
two small pieces of special glass or plastic in a frame worn in front of the eyes to improve sight:

Examples:

pair of glasses I need a different pair of glasses for driving.
7
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Examples:

The glass has been falling/rising (= showing a change to bad/good weather) all day.
8
to attack someone with a broken bottle or glass:

Examples:

He was sentenced to two years in jail for glassing a student in a bar.
I got glassed in the face and needed treatment.
9
to search by looking through something such as binoculars (= a pair of tubes with glass lenses at either end that let you see things far away more clearly) or gun sights (= the part of a gun that you look through to aim):

Examples:

When Jack glassed the barbed-wire enclosure, his binoculars magnified the legs of a man extending from under a truck.
Between each step I glassed into the thick forest and rolled my finger across the center focusing wheel to adjust my vision.
10
a hard, transparent material that is used to make windows, bottles, and other objects
11
A glass is a small container of glass, usually round and without a handle, for holding a liquid that you can drink, or the liquid held by such a container:

Examples:

[ C ] She poured some milk into a glass.
[ C ] May I have a glass of water?
12
made of glass:

Examples:

a glass jar/bottle

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