Glass vs. Porcelain

Any of a large class of materials with highly variable mechanical and optical properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization, are typically made by silicates fusing with boric oxide, aluminum oxide, or phosphorus pentoxide, are generally hard, brittle, and transparent or translucent, and are considered to be supercooled liquids rather than true solids.

A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.

A drinking vessel.

An object made of this substance.

A mirror.

A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.

A barometer.

Syn of china: porcelain tableware.

A window or windowpane.

Syn of kaolin: the kind of clay traditionally used in China to manufacture porcelain.

The series of transparent plastic sheets that are secured vertically above the boards in many ice rinks.

An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware.

Glasses A pair of lenses mounted in a light frame, used to correct faulty vision or protect the eyes.

Syn of cowrie.

Often glasses A binocular or field glass.

Syn of wampum: strings of shells, beads, etc. used as ornamentation or currency; the composite shells, beads, etc.

A device, such as a monocle or spyglass, containing a lens or lenses and used as an aid to vision.

A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers.

The quantity contained by a drinking vessel; a glassful.

Purslain.

Objects made of glass; glassware.

A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; - called also China, or China ware.

Made or consisting of glass.

Ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic

Fitted with panes of glass; glazed.

To enclose or encase with glass.

To put into a glass container.

To provide with glass or glass parts.

To make glassy; glaze.

To see reflected, as in a mirror.

To reflect.

To scan (a tract of land or forest, for example) with an optical instrument.

To become glassy.

To use an optical instrument, as in looking for game.

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).

Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).

(countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

(metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

(uncountable) Glassware.

A mirror.

A magnifying glass or telescope.

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

The backboard.

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

A barometer.

Transparent or translucent.

(obsolete) An hourglass.

Lenses, considered collectively.

A pane of glass; a window (especially of a coach or similar vehicle).

(transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.

(transitive) To enclose in glass.

(transitive) fibreglass To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).

To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.

To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.

(transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.

(transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

To reflect; to mirror.

(transitive) To make glassy.

(intransitive) To become glassy.

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.

Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.

Anything made of glass.

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.

To case in glass.

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

A glass container for holding liquids while drinking

The quantity a glass will hold

A small refracting telescope

Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

A mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

Glassware collectively;

Furnish with glass;

Scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

Enclose with glass;

Put in a glass container

Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance;