Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word glass. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in glass.
Definitions and meaning of glass
glass
Alternative forms
glasse(obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Englishglas, from Old Englishglæs, 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 *ǵʰel-(“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Cognate with West Frisianglês, Dutchglas, Low GermanGlas, GermanGlas, Swedishglas, Icelandicgler.
Pronunciation
enPR: gläs, IPA(key): /ɡlɑːs/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ɡlɑːs]
(General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [ɡläːs], [ɡlɐːs]
(usually uncountable) 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).
(countable, uncountable, by extension) 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.
1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67,[1]
[…] for what lady can abide to love a spruce silken-face courtier, that stands every morning two or three hours learning how to look by his glass, how to speak by his glass, how to sigh by his glass, how to court his mistress by his glass? I would wish him no other plague, but to have a mistress as brittle as glass.
A magnifying glass or telescope.
(sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
(basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
(ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
A barometer.
(attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
(obsolete) An hourglass.
(uncountable, photography, informal) Lenses, considered collectively.
(now rare) A pane of glass; a window (especially of a coach or similar vehicle).
Hyponyms
(vessel):SeeCategory:en:Vessels
(material):lechatelierite, pyrex, Pyrex
Derived terms
Related terms
glaze
glazier
glazing
Descendants
→ Gulf Arabic: قلاص(gḷāṣ)
→ Fiji Hindi: gilaas
→ Japanese: グラス(gurasu)
→ Kikuyu: ngirathi
→ Malay: gelas, ݢلس
Translations
Verb
glass (third-person singular simple presentglasses, present participleglassing, simple past and past participleglassed)
(transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
(transitive) To enclose in glass.
(transitive)Clipping of fibreglass. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
(transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
1987, John Godber, Bouncers page 19:
JUDD. Any trouble last night?
LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale page 72:
I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.
2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp page 139:
One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.
(transitive, science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a 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.
(archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
(transitive) To make glassy.
(intransitive) To become glassy.
Translations
Anagrams
slags
Manx
Etymology 1
From Old Irishglas(“blue-grey, green”), from Proto-Celtic*glastos.
Adjective
glass
green (of nature), verdant
Ta'n londaig hannah jeeaghyn slane glass. ― The lawn looks quite green already.
yn faarkey glass tonnagh foin ― the green billowy sea under us