glass
What is the Definition of glass?
Noun:
- a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
- a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking
- the quantity a glass will hold
- a small refracting telescope
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine)
- a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
- glassware collectively
Verb:
- furnish with glass
- scan (game in the forest)
- enclose with glass
- put in a glass container
- become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
How can I use glass in a sentence?
What came next happened so fast no one saw how it happened — one second, Piers and Dudley were leaning right up close to the glass, the next, they had leapt back with howls of horror.
The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them.
He would not have been surprised if it had died of boredom itself — no company except stupid people drumming their fingers on the glass trying to disturb it all day long.
He tried to edge to the left, to get in front of the glass without Quirrell noticing, but the ropes around his ankles were too tight: he tripped and fell over.
It was colder here than up in the main castle, and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars all around the walls.
Other meanings of glass (synonyms, cognates).
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