Dictionary Entry
glass
glass is a 5-letter English word with 24 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 24 senses
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- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
- 3transitive verb
Anything made of glass.
- 4transitive verb
A looking-glass; a mirror.
- 5transitive verb
A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
- 6transitive verb
A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
- 7transitive verb
An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
- 8transitive verb
A weatherglass; a barometer.
- 9transitive verb
To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
- 10transitive verb
To case in glass.
- 11transitive verb
To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
- 12transitive verb
To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- 13noun
a small refracting telescope
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- 14noun
a container for holding liquids while drinking
- 15noun
glassware collectively
"She collected old glass"
- 16noun
a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
- 17noun
an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- 18noun
the quantity a glass will hold
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- 19noun
a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
- 20verb
become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
"Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"
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- 21verb
put in a glass container
- 22verb
enclose with glass
"glass in a porch"
- 23verb
scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
- 24verb
furnish with glass
"glass the windows"
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