Glass vs Company - What's the difference?
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(lb) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
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The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.}}
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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.
# The backboard.
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#(lb) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
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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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* Byron
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
# A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
# (label) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
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, chapter=30, title= # A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
# (label) The entire crew of a ship.
# (label) Nickname for an intelligence service.
(label) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
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(label) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
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, title=Obama goes troll-hunting (label) Social visitors or companions.
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*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (label) Companionship.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company . When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
(archaic) To accompany, keep company with.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 2:
(archaic) To associate.
* Bible, Acts i. 21
(obsolete) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse.
As a proper noun glass
is .As a noun company is
a team; a group of people who work together professionally.As a verb company is
(archaic|transitive) to accompany, keep company with.glass
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(wikipedia glass)Noun
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=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.}}
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
(es)- (Boyle)
- (Shakespeare)
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.
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* 1000 English basic words ----company
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(wikipedia company)Noun
The Dust of Conflict, passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
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A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
Synonyms
* corporationDerived terms
* a man is known by the company he keeps * British East India Company * companiate * company clinic * company doctor * company front * company man * company officer * company seal * company-specific risk * company store * company time * company town * company union * fast company * fire company * growth company * holding company * in-company * incorporated company * insurance company * intracompany * investment company * joint-stock company * keep somebody company * listed company * limited liability company * livery company * management company * mixed company * mutual company * offshore company * parent company * present company excepted * private company * quoted company * shell company * ship's company * sister company * stock company * the company * title company * touring company * trust company * * you don't dip your pen in company inkVerb
- Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an unlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come unto an alient [...].
- it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”
- Men which have companied with us all the time.
- (Spenser)
- (Bishop Hall)
