All our glass and china is kept in the cupboard. 我们所有的玻璃和陶瓷器皿都放在柜橱里。
glass
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a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
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a container for holding liquids while drinking
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the quantity a glass will hold
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a small refracting telescope
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an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
Glass \Glass\ (gl[.a]s), n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[ae]s; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS. gl[ae]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.] 1. A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides; thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous), red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium, yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown; gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium, emerald green; antimony, yellow.
2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
3. Anything made of glass. Especially: (a) A looking-glass; a mirror. (b) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
She would not live The running of one glass. --Shak. (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner. (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses. (e) A weatherglass; a barometer.
Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as, glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
{Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian}, {Cut}, etc.
{Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it in the process of blowing.
{Crystal glass}, or {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in the Vocabulary.
{Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened.
{Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulphide.
{Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
{Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so called because originally private carriages alone had glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart.
Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands. --J. F. Cooper.
{Glass cutter}. (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window panes, ets. (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and polishing. (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for cutting glass.
{Glass cutting}. (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of glass into panes with a diamond. (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand, emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied; especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
{Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass.
{Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows, and the like.
{Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used for abrasive purposes.
{Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
{Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
{Glass soap}, or {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take away color from the materials for glass.
{Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass. Cf. Glass painting.
{Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}.
{Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made.
{Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially of a borosilicate of potash.
{Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}.
{Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates, and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and the best windows.
{Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure when hot.
{Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium, found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}.
{Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
{Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine, etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the process, {Bastie glass}.
{Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above.
{Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows.
Glass \Glass\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glassed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glassing}.] 1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror. --Motley.
Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests. --Byron.
2. To case in glass. [R.] --Shak.
3. To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. --Boyle.
4. To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
The price asked by the spacemen to save the world is a glass of water.
Mr Stevens should encourage Richard Rogers to be more imaginative and to keep the listed building at the heart of his scheme. There are plenty of boring glass towers around.
But it requires wholesale replacement of lecturers and classrooms with silicon chips and glass threads.
The crack was in the outermost of four panes of glass in the porthole.
Building supply stores rushed to fill orders for glass, plywood, cement, flashlights, power generators _ and tarpaulins to shield from the rain.
Even the fabricators that fit glass into window sashes or install windows on construction projects often are beholden to makers, some say. Japanese executives dispute that.
Less than two hours later, an explosion rocked a downtown Banco Central office and shattered glass in surrounding buildings, he said.
Among other things, the gel kept oozing from between the two layers of glass.
Vietnamese leaders said they falsified the date of Ho Chi Minh's death and changed portions of his will, putting the leader's body on display in a glass mausoleum when his initial wish was to be cremated.
It might be possible, he said, to use gravitational lenses _ areas in space in which gravity bends light in the same way that a magnifying glass does _ to see small, faint stars in the dark halo, if they exist.
Miami-based Carnival doesn't plan to fine anybody for throwing trash overboard, but its passengers are encouraged to separate plastics from glass, cans and paper into deck-side garbage cans.
Art nouveau glass vases and antique silver boxes are popular, he says.
As an action hero he's pretty goofy, but he does walk through broken glass barefoot, which should attract the Rambo fans.
Now it separates untreated glass for re-use to make patterned or wired glass products, while other glass which has been toughened or printed on is used as aggregate in cement and as reflective material in road-marking paint.
Now it separates untreated glass for re-use to make patterned or wired glass products, while other glass which has been toughened or printed on is used as aggregate in cement and as reflective material in road-marking paint.
Now it separates untreated glass for re-use to make patterned or wired glass products, while other glass which has been toughened or printed on is used as aggregate in cement and as reflective material in road-marking paint.
'It bores me even to think of such a trip, not that I mind luxury and lashings of delicious food and starting to drink at 11am with a glass of champagne to steady the stomach.
Desks and file cabinets were toppled, and a glass door was smashed, he said.
About five million shares will be used for previously announced share swaps in which Saint-Gobain bid for full control of its Belgian glass unit, restructured its construction operations in a joint venture with Cie.
Paul Cross, JRN's director of special projects, had to look to Hollywood, Calif., to find companies to reproduce the battleship linoleum used on the cafe's floors and the wheel-etched glass that bore the colonel's name on the front of the building.
Van Thiel told reporters the painting needs new veneer but will go on display in two weeks, protected by a glass shield until the veneer is dry.
The 1902 lamp, known as "Les Coprins" (The Mushrooms), is made of internally decorated and intaglio-carved glass and wrought iron.
These devices, 10 inches long and four inches wide, have high-speed microprocessors and are "trained" by large computers to pick, say, the sound of breaking glass out of a jumble of interfering sounds.
Downed with a glass of cool Galician apple cider, they make a delicious market-morning snack. EL BOMBERO There is nothing fancy about El Bombero, a small upstairs restaurant overlooking a narrow Santiago street.
Would you give the cops machine guns if you lived in a glass dome?
In a bid to prevent passengers being caught in the crossfire between Rio's police and drug traffickers all the windows are to be fitted with bullet-proof glass.
The new Opera is a hulking mass of polished granite, glass and stainless steel designed by Canadian architect Carlos Ott.
Other discoveries include seashells and obsidian glass tools that indicate emergence of long-distance trade.
To symbolize Ocean City's commitment to clean beaches, the throne was set upon a container of recyclable materials such as aluminum cans and glass bottles.
Fitzwater reported that Reagan not only joined in eating a bit of the cake, but had a glass of champagne to celebrate his trip.