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glass | false |

As a proper noun glass

is .

As an adjective false is

(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

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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    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
  • , title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society , section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
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  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
  • Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:whose false foundation waves have swept away
  • Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (lb) Out of tune.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

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