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glass | dipleidoscope |

As a proper noun glass

is .

As a noun dipleidoscope is

(astronomy) an instrument for determining the time of apparent noon it consists of two mirrors and a plane glass in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's centre is on the meridian.

glass

English

(wikipedia glass)

Noun

  • (lb) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= 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.}}
  • 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 .
  • 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 * spyglass

    Descendants

    * Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),

    Verb

    (es)
  • To furnish with glass; to glaze.
  • (Boyle)
  • To enclose with glass.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
  • * 1987, John Godber, Bouncers p. 19:
  • JUDD. Any trouble last night?
    LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed .
  • * 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale 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.
  • * 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp 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.
  • (label) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
  • * 2012 , Halo: First Strike, p. 190:
  • *:“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:
  • Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
  • To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
  • (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
  • * Motley
  • Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.
  • * Byron
  • Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.

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    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's centre is on the meridian.
  • (Webster 1913)