Weed vs Glass - What's the difference?

weed | glass |

As a noun weed

is pasture or weed can be willow.

As a proper noun glass is

weed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A plant.

# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

#*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

# (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.

# Short for duckweed.

# Underbrush; low shrubs.

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

one rushing forth out of the thickest weed

#* (1809-1892)

A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

# Marijuana.

# Tobacco.

# A cigar.

A horse unfit to breed from.

A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweed

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

I weeded my flower bed.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

* 1599 ,

DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;

And then to Leonato's we will go.

CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

He wore a weed on his hat.

(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel

* Milton

In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Etymology 4

From the verb wee.

Verb

(head)

(wee)

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glass

English

(wikipedia glass)

Noun

(lb) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.

*{{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.

The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

, 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.}}

*: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.

A mirror.

A magnifying glass or telescope.

(lb) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.

# The backboard.

#(lb) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.

A barometer.

*(Louis MacNeice) (1907-1963)

*:The glass is falling hour by hour.

Transparent or translucent.

(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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