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Glass and Porcelain Definitions

Glass

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.

Porcelain

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

Glass

A drinking vessel.

Porcelain

An object made of this substance.

Glass

A mirror.

Porcelain

A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as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.
Tableware and toilets are both made of porcelain.
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Glass

A barometer.

Porcelain

Syn of china: porcelain tableware.
He set the table with our porcelain and stemware.

Glass

A window or windowpane.

Porcelain

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

Glass

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

Porcelain

An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware.
The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.
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Glass

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

Porcelain

Syn of cowrie.

Glass

Often glasses A binocular or field glass.

Porcelain

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

Glass

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

Porcelain

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

The quantity contained by a drinking vessel; a glassful.

Porcelain

Purslain.

Glass

Objects made of glass; glassware.

Porcelain

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.
Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break.

Glass

Made or consisting of glass.

Porcelain

Ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic

Glass

Fitted with panes of glass; glazed.

Glass

To enclose or encase with glass.

Glass

To put into a glass container.

Glass

To provide with glass or glass parts.

Glass

To make glassy; glaze.

Glass

To see reflected, as in a mirror.

Glass

To reflect.

Glass

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

Glass

To become glassy.

Glass

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

Glass

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).
The tabletop is made of glass.
A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.

Glass

Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.

Glass

(countable) 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.

Glass

(metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.

Glass

(uncountable) Glassware.
We collected art glass.

Glass

A mirror.
She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.

Glass

A magnifying glass or telescope.

Glass

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

Glass

The backboard.
He caught the rebound off the glass.

Glass

(ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
He fired the outlet pass off the glass.

Glass

A barometer.

Glass

Transparent or translucent.
Glass frog;
Glass shrimp;
Glass worm

Glass

(obsolete) An hourglass.

Glass

Lenses, considered collectively.
Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.

Glass

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

Glass

(transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.

Glass

(transitive) To enclose in glass.

Glass

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

Glass

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

Glass

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

Glass

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

Glass

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

Glass

To reflect; to mirror.

Glass

(transitive) To make glassy.

Glass

(intransitive) To become glassy.

Glass

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.

Glass

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

Glass

Anything made of glass.
She would not liveThe running of one glass.

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.
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.

Glass

To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.
Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.
Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.

Glass

To case in glass.

Glass

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

Glass

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

Glass

A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

Glass

A glass container for holding liquids while drinking

Glass

The quantity a glass will hold

Glass

A small refracting telescope

Glass

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

Glass

A mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

Glass

Glassware collectively;
She collected old glass

Glass

Furnish with glass;
Glass the windows

Glass

Scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

Glass

Enclose with glass;
Glass in a porch

Glass

Put in a glass container

Glass

Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance;
Her eyes glaze over when she is bored

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