Usually means: Transparent, hard material made silicate.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glass, glass: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glass: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glass: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glass, glass: Wordnik
  7. glass, the glass: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Glass, glass: Wiktionary
  9. glass: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glass: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glass: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. glass: Dictionary.com
  13. glass: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. glass: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GLASS (software bundle), Glass (EP), Glass (From Her Eyes Single), Glass (Thompson Square song), Glass (composition), Glass (disambiguation), Glass (drinkware), Glass (fiber), Glass (fibre), Glass (novel), Glass (song), Glass (surname), Glass, The Glass (Cherokee chief), .glass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Glass: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. glass: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. glass: Rhymezone
  19. glass: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. glass: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. glass: Free Dictionary
  22. glass: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Glass, glass: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Glass: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. glass: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Glass (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. glass: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. Glass: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLASS, glass: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. glass: Netlingo
  3. glass: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. glass: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GLASS: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. glass: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glass: Easton Bible
  2. Glass: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. glass (volcanic): Dictionary of Geology
  4. glass: Natural History Terms
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. glass, glass, glass, glass: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. glass: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Glass: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Stained Glass Windows (No longer online)
  3. Efficient Windows (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  10. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (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).
noun:  (countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
noun:  (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
noun:  (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
noun:  (uncountable) Glassware.
noun:  A mirror.
noun:  A magnifying glass or telescope.
noun:  (sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
noun:  (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
noun:  (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
noun:  A barometer.
noun:  (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
noun:  (obsolete) An hourglass.
noun:  (uncountable, photography, informal) Lenses, considered collectively.
noun:  (now rare) A pane of glass; a window (especially of a coach or similar vehicle).
verb:  (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
verb:  (transitive) To enclose in glass.
verb:  (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
verb:  (transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
verb:  (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
verb:  (transitive) To make glassy.
verb:  (intransitive) To become glassy.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass). [To apply fibreglass to.]

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