Meaning of glass in English

She'd had a couple of glasses of champagne and was starting to feel light-headed.
He got up and refilled their glasses.
On a hot day it's lovely to hear the chink of ice in a glass.
Would you like a glass of wine?
He'd left sticky fingermarks all over the glass.

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Dishes, bowls, cups & glasses

glass noun (FOR IMPROVING SIGHT)

glasses [ plural ]

two small pieces of special glass or plastic in a frame worn in front of the eyes to improve sight:

pair of glasses I need a different pair of glasses for driving.

glass noun (DEVICE)

the glass [ S ] old-fashioned

a barometer :

The glass has been falling/rising (= showing a change to bad/good weather) all day.

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Idioms

the glass is half empty
the glass is half full
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

glass

verb

/ɡlɑːs/ us

/ɡlæs/

glass verb (ATTACK)

[ T ]

to attack someone with a broken bottle or glass:

He was sentenced to two years in jail for glassing a student in a bar.

I got glassed in the face and needed treatment.

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glass verb (SEARCH)

[ I or T ] US

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):

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.

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Phrasal verb

glass something in/over

(Definition of glass from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

glass | American Dictionary

glass

noun [ C/U ]

/ɡlæs/

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a hard, transparent material that is used to make windows, bottles, and other objects

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:

[ C ] She poured some milk into a glass.

[ C ] May I have a glass of water?

glass

adjective [ not gradable ]

/ɡlæs/

made of glass:

a glass jar/bottle

(Definition of glass from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of glass

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The infiltrating silicate melts interact with carbonates, resulting in the 'exotic' compositions of glasses found in some skarn xenoliths.

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Fragilities of liquids predicted from the random first order transition theory of glasses.

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Volume changes in cupping glasses and the air pump measured the power of this active elasticity.

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A metal bolt was fixed to the skull just above the beak to allow attachment of spectacles with filter glasses needed for stereoscopic stimulation.

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One uncorked bottle of extra dry wine, flanked by two wine glasses, rests on the center of a marble table.

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The user wears a pair of stereo liquid crystal shutter glasses and a six-degree-of-freedom head-tracking device.

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There were trays on which stood sherry glasses filled with water.

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Each experimental homonym pair appeared once in each set, in the order : letter, bow, bat, glasses.

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After several glasses of wine he confided to me that my lexicographic footnote had won the day for the boojum.

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The preparation of a meal involves many things - spoons, dishes, glasses, pitchers - and a certain facility in the use of those things.

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A relatively recent application of sintering is the production of high-quality glasses by means of what is known as the sol-gel technique.

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Before each session the quality of analyses was checked using certified minerals and glasses as reference standards.

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The total quantity of e might be a function of the temperature of the wine and of the number of glasses consumed.

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Because glasses are metastable solids, they can support a considerable mechanical stress, especially over short periods of time.

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An in-depth discussion of the technical details of the analytical treatment of spin glasses goes beyond the scope of this article.

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