glass

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Old English glæs, cognate with Old Saxon and Old High German glas (“amber”), which (in Old High German) is attested as a gloss for Latin electrum (“amber”). These words are developed from Proto-Germanic *glasan. Possibly ultimately from the Proto-Germanic root *glōanan (“to shine”) (compare glow).

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[edit] Noun

a glass (2) of milk

glass (countable and uncountable; plural glasses)

  1. (uncountable) A solid, transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
    The tabletop is made of glass.
  2. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
    Fill my glass with milk please.
  3. The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
    Would you like a glass of milk?
  4. (physics, uncountable) Amorphous (non-crystalline) substance.
    A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
  5. (uncountable) Glassware.
    We collected art glass.
  6. A mirror.
    She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
  7. A magnifying glass or telescope.
    We looked through the glass to see stars.
  8. (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
    He caught the rebound off of the glass.
  9. (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
    He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
  10. A barometer.
    The glass is falling hour by hour — Louis MacNeice.

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Terms derived from glass (noun)

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substance
drinking vessel
amorphous non-crystalline substance
mirror — see mirror

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glass (third-person singular simple present glasses, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with glass; to glaze.
  2. (transitive) To enclose with glass.
  3. (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
    • 1987, John Godber, Bouncers [1]
      JUDD. Any trouble last night? / LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
    • 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoters Tale [2]
      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 [3]
      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.
  4. To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
  5. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars

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[edit] Manx

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Irish glas (“blue-grey, green”)

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glass

  1. green (of nature), verdant
    • Ta'n londaig hannah jeeaghyn slane glass.
      • The lawn looks quite green already.
    • yn faarkey glass tonnagh foin
      • the green billowy sea under us
    • yn awin ghlass
      • the green river
  2. grey (of animal), ashen (colour)
  3. soft, pale, pasty
  4. raw, unfledged, sappy
  5. callow (of youth)
[edit] Mutation
Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
glass ghlass nglass
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old Irish glas (“lock, clasp”)

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glass m. (plural glish)

  1. lock
    • Hooar eh y glass er y dorrys roish.
      • He found himself locked out.
    • T'eh fo glass.
      • He is behind bars.
    • Ta glass er my hengey.
      • My lips are sealed.
    • Ta glass y dorrys er y çheu sthie.
      • The door locks on the inside.
    • Ta'n ogher shoh gentreil y glass.
      • This key goes in the lock.
    • Vrish ad y glass.
      • They forced the lock.
[edit] Mutation
Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
glass ghlass nglass
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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glass (verbal noun glassey)

  1. to lock up, secure
[edit] Mutation
Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
glass ghlass nglass
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Etymology

From French glace.

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glass c.

  1. ice cream

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Declension of glass
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative glass glassen glassar glassarna
genitive glass glassens glassars glassarnas
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