What is the difference between barometer and glass?
barometer | glass |
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
Anything used as a gauge or indicator.
* 1916. Michigan Law Review, Vol. 14, No. 8 (Jun., 1916), pp. 661-665 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-2234%28191606%2914%3A8%3C661%3APOAJO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C&size=LARGE]:
(lb) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
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The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
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*: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 .
(lb) Glassware.
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A mirror.
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A magnifying glass or telescope.
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(lb) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
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A barometer.
*(Louis MacNeice) (1907-1963)
*:The glass is falling hour by hour.
Transparent or translucent.
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(lb) An hourglass.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She would not live / The running of one glass .
To furnish with glass; to glaze.
To enclose with glass.
To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
* 1987, John Godber, Bouncers
* 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale
* 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp
(label) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
* 2012 , Halo: First Strike,
*:“The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
* 2000 , Ben D. Mahaffey, 50 Years of Hunting and Fishing , page 95:
To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
(archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
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As nouns the difference between barometer and glass
is that barometer is an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure while glass is (uncountable) a solid, transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.As a verb glass is
to furnish with glass; to glaze.barometer
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(wikipedia barometer)Alternative forms
* barometre (nonstandard)Noun
(en noun)- "An election is not necessarily an accurate barometer of public opinion. There are other ways in which it makes itself felt, through the press, the forum, discussion, and through every other type of communication."
glass
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(wikipedia glass)Noun
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Derived terms
* carnival glass * cheval glass * eyeglasses * glassblower * glassblowing * glasses * glassformer * glass frog * glasshouse * glass jaw * glassless * glassmaker * glassware * glasswork * glassworker * glassy * isinglass * looking glass * magnifying glass * spyglassDescendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),Verb
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p. 19:
- JUDD. Any trouble last night?
- LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed .
p. 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.
p. 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.
p. 190:
- Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
- Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.
- Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.