Definitions for Glass

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Glass glass

Spelling: [glas, glahs]

IPA: /glæs, glɑs/

Glass is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Glass (aglss).

Definitions for Glass

noun

1. a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles.
2. any artificial or natural substance having similar properties and composition, as fused borax, obsidian, or the like.
3. something made of such a substance, as a windowpane.
4. a tumbler or other comparatively tall, handleless drinking container.
5. glasses, Also called eyeglasses. a device to compensate for defective vision or to protect the eyes from light, dust, and the like, consisting usually of two glass or plastic lenses set in a frame that includes a nosepiece for resting on the bridge of the nose and two sidepieces extending over or around the ears (usually used with pair of). Compare goggle (def 1a), pince-nez, spectacle (def 3).
6. a mirror.
7. things made of glass, collectively; glassware:
8. a glassful.
9. a lens, especially one used as a magnifying glass.
10. a spyglass.
11. Carter, 1858–1946, U.S. statesman.
12. Philip, born 1937, U.S. composer.

adjective

1. made of glass:
2. furnished or fitted with panes of glass; glazed.

verb (used with object)

1. to fit with panes of glass.
2. cover with or encase in glass.
3. to coat or cover with fiberglass:
4. to scan with a spyglass or other optical instrument.
5. to reflect:

Origin of Glass

before 900; Middle English glas (noun), Old English glæs; cognate with Dutch, German Glas

Examples for Glass

"Here's hoping we'll soon be back in God's own country," said Oldaker, raising his glass.

"Now look in the glass," directed Grace, when she had finished.

The captain looked at it through his glass, and then examined the chart.

"Come, George, fill up your glass," said Ashton repeatedly; but George declined.

In The Lodger an ominous character paced the floor, which Hitchcock constructed of glass.

Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google glass hit a contrarian rip tide.

You meant to chase every glass of wine with a pitcher of H2O, but the holiday cheer somehow steered you off course.

He manages to talk one of them into a glass or two, but for the most part he remains sober.

Oldaker sipped his glass of old Oloroso sherry and discoursed.

The resulting product included four single-cask variants along with finished pictures of McKidd enjoying a glass of The Macallan.