Glass
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English
Etymology
From the Old English, gloes, which may have come from Old Saxon or Old High German, glas, which (in OHG) reffered to gloss for electrum amber. These words are developed from Old Teutonic, glaso. It is possible that ultimate root is from a variant of the Old Teutonic word glo (gla, which meant to "glow" or "shine".
Noun
glass (countable and uncountable; plural glasses)
- (uncountable) A solid, transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
- A vessel made of glass from which drinks may be drunk.
- (physics; uncountable) Amorphous (non-crystalline) substance.
- (old-fashioned, literary, poetic) A mirror.
Translations
substance
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drinking vessel
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amorphous non-crystalline substance
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mirror
See mirror
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and then inserted into the appropriate table(s) above.
- Hungarian: üveg, pohár
Transitive verb
to glass (present participle glassing, past tense and past participle glassed)
- (colloquial) To strike (someone) in the face with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
See also
- glasses
- Wikipedia article on glass
Swedish
Noun
glass
