glass

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɡlɑːs/    美 /ɡlæs/|[ɡlɛəs]|[ɡleəs]|[ɡläːs]|[ɡlɐːs]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added). uncountable,usually
    — This tabletop is made of glass.
  2. Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice). broadly,countable,uncountable
    — Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
  3. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material. countable
    — Would you like a glass of wine?
  4. The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel. countable,metonymically,uncountable
    — There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
  5. Glassware. uncountable
    — We collected art glass.
  6. A mirror. countable,uncountable
    — She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
  7. A magnifying glass or loupe. countable,uncountable
  8. A telescope. countable,uncountable
    — Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns, as is well known, and in the early part of the stalking season, when seen through a glass, might be mistaken for hummels […]
  9. A barrier made of solid, transparent material.; The backboard. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — He caught the rebound off the glass.
  10. A barrier made of solid, transparent material.; The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink. countable,uncountable
    — He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
  11. A barometer. countable,uncountable
    — The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever / But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.
  12. Transparent or translucent. attributive,countable,uncountable
    — glass frog;  glass shrimp;  glass worm
  13. An hourglass. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ſhe would not liue / The running of one Glaſſe.
  14. Lenses, considered collectively. informal,uncountable
    — Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.
  15. Synonym of window or pane, particularly in vehicles. archaic,countable
    — [N]o sooner had we entered Holbourn than letting down one of the Front Glasses I enquired of every decent-looking Person that we passed ‘If they had seen my Edward?’
动词 v.
  1. To fit with glass; to glaze. transitive
  2. To enclose in glass. transitive
    — As Iewels in Christall for some Prince to buy. / Who tendring their own worth from whence they were glast,
  3. Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass)”). abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,transitive
  4. To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury. UK,colloquial,transitive
    — JUDD. Any trouble last night? LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
  5. To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass. transitive
    — “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
  6. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars. transitive
    — Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
  7. To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher. transitive
  8. To reflect; to mirror. archaic,reflexive
    — Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror.
  9. To make glassy. transitive
    — Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree.
  10. To become glassy. intransitive
    — Bourez had timed it perfectly: a wind that was forecast for the morning began to stir just after his arrival and the sea glassed off for a brief period before the waves grew bigger and bigger.

词形变化

glasses plural glasse alternative,obsolete glasses present,singular,third-person glassing participle,present glassed participle,past glassed past glasse alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
glaze glazier glazing

词源

词源 1
From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰleh₁- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”).
Cognate with West Frisian glês, Low German and German Glas, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish glas, Norwegian Bokmål glass, Icelandic gler.
词源 2
From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰleh₁- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”).
Cognate with West Frisian glês, Low German and German Glas, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish glas, Norwegian Bokmål glass, Icelandic gler.
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