Glass vs Jewel - 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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, 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.
* Motley
* Byron
A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.
* ante'' 1611 , (William Shakespeare), '', lines 188–9:
(figuratively) Anything considered precious or valuable.
* Shakespeare
A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
(slang) The clitoris.
* 2008 , Another Time, Another Place: Five Novellas
To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
As proper nouns the difference between glass and jewel
is that glass is while jewel is from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century.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 ----jewel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Iachimo: 'Tis plate of rare device, and jewels / Of rich and exquisite form, their values great.
- our prince (jewel of children)
- The area between her eyebrows wrinkled with the increasing circular motions her two fingers made on her jewel .
