glass
Kelime Anlamı :

1. cam.
2. cam eşya.
3. bardak.
4. ayna.
5. sırça.
6. coğ.
7. cam gibi yapmak.
8. büyüteç.
9. cam kadeh.
10. met.
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Tanımlar :
1. A substance resulting from the fusion of a combination of silica (rarely boracic acid) with various bases. see vitreous.
2. A plate, screen, vessel, instrument, etc., made of glass.
3. A plate or pane of glass inserted in the frame of a window, picture, clock, hotbed, etc., to admit the light or permit a view, while excluding wind, rain, dust, or other interference.
4. A looking-glass; a mirror. it was formerly fashionable for ladies to carry a looking-glass hanging from the girdle.
5. A glass vessel filled with running sand for measuring time, called specifically an hour-glass; hence, the time in which a glass is exhausted of its sand; specifically (nautical), the time in which a half-hour glass is emptied of its sand.
6. A vessel made of glass: as, a jelly-glass; a finger-glass. especially
7. A drinking-vessel made of glass; hence, the quantity which such a vessel holds, and figuratively what one drinks, especially strong drink: as, fond of his glass.
8. an observing-instrument made of glass, or of which the main or most important part is of glass. A lens; a telescope; a field-glass. A barometer. A thermometer. an eye-glass: usually in the plural eye-glasses or spectacles.
9. glass having a lime base instead of a lead base, in this sense including nearly all the ornamental glassware, vessels, etc., of the best periods and styles, venetian spanish, and others.
10. A kind of glass which is quite colorless, hard, difficultly fusible, and less readily acted upon by chemicals than any other kind of glass. mirrors are often made of it, and it is largely used for the manufacture of chemical apparatus. it is made from ground quartz, purified potash, and lime.
11. A musical instrument consisting either of glass tubes or glass bowls, graduated in size, which can be played by the friction of the moistened finger. also called glass harmonica.
12. glass made ornamental by the application of a white metallic film to the unexposed side, giving it a silvery luster.
13. less properly, same as enameled glass. see glass-painting.
14. glass that has been heated and then suddenly cooled, under the process of F. siemens. when the articles to be made are such as are generally molded, the molten glass is run into suitable molds and squeezed while it is highly heated, the mold cooling it sufficiently without the liquid bath.
15. [attrib. use of the noun. the older adj. is glazen, q. v.] made of glass; vitreous: as, a glass bottle.—
16. to case in glass; cover with or as if with glass; protect by a covering of glass.
17. to make glassy; give a glazed surface to; glaze or polish.
18. to reflect, as a mirror or other reflecting surface; show or observe a reflection of.
19. in petrography, glass is the natural product of the rapid cooling of igneous magmas, and in large masses is known as obsidian, pitchstone, and pumice. it may be colorless or of various colors, as white, yellow, orange, red, green, and black. it forms the ground-mass of many volcanic rocks, being sometimes recognizable by the unaided eye, but often only microscopically. glass base to the name given to it when it forms the matrix for microscopic crystals in the ground-mass of a rock.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia