Meaning of glass In English

• 0 a hard, transparent material, used to make windows, bottles, and other objects:

  • coloured/broken glass

  • a glass jar/dish/ornament

  • It's a huge window made from a single pane of glass.

  • The museum has a fine collection of valuable glass.

  • In cool climates you have to grow tropical plants under glass.

• 1 a small container for drinks made of glass or similar material, with a flat base and usually with no handle:

  • a beer/wine glass

  • She poured some milk into a glass.

  • Would you like a glass of water?

  • Two glasses of lemonade, please.

• 2 two small pieces of special glass or plastic in a frame worn in front of the eyes to improve sight:

  • a pair of glasses

  • reading glasses

• 3 a barometer :

  • The glass has been falling/rising (= showing a change to bad/good weather) all day.

• 4 to attack someone with a broken bottle or glass:

  • He was sentenced to two years in jail for glassing a student in a bar.

  • I got glassed in the face and needed treatment.

• 5 to search by looking through something such as binoculars (= a pair of tubes with glass lenses at either end that let you see things far away more clearly) or gun sights (= the part of a gun that you look through to aim):

  • When Jack glassed the barbed-wire enclosure, his binoculars magnified the legs of a man extending from under a truck.

  • Between each step I glassed into the thick forest and rolled my finger across the center focusing wheel to adjust my vision.

• 6 a hard, transparent material that is used to make windows, bottles, and other objects

  • [ C ] She poured some milk into a glass.

  • [ C ] May I have a glass of water?

• 7 made of glass:

  • a glass jar/bottle