What's the difference between eyeglasses and glass?

Eyeglasses


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Optimal radiation protection of the eyes during fluoroscopy depends not only on eyeglasses with leaded glass, but also on shielding of sufficient size and shape to reduce exposure to the surrounding head.
  • (2) This paper discusses methods for improving vision in the dental operatory and details a new design for eyeglasses suitable for the presbyopic dentist.
  • (3) Numerous eyeglass lens materials have been recommended for protection of radiologists' eyes from the cataractogenic effect of radiation during fluoroscopic procedures.
  • (4) Patient assessment of dental prostheses, hearing aids, and eyeglasses can provide valuable data regarding adaptability of geriatric patients.
  • (5) To aid the partially sighted in writing on small areas, such as bank drafts, a clip-on eyeglass loupe (11 diopters, 3.5 inches, Bausch and Lomb) attached to a finepoint felt pen provides adequate vision.
  • (6) These lesions, located along the retroauricular fold and on the nasal bridge, are caused by ill-fitting eyeglasses.
  • (7) A model of ocular and facial skin exposure to UVB is presented that combines interview histories of work activities, leisure activities, eyeglass wearing, and hat use with field and laboratory measurements of UV radiant exposure.
  • (8) An improved gauge using an eyeglass frame, the TOM gauge, was devised.
  • (9) Vision acuity of 0.05-0.3 diopters (with eyeglass correction) was achieved in 74.1 percent of cases, that of 0.1-0.3 diopters in 29.9 percent.
  • (10) These forms, along with the striking "eyeglass" configuration of incompletely separated cells that were also present, are the diagnostic features of this apparently rare variety.
  • (11) Conrad von Soest depicted an apostle in reading glasses in the Niederwildungen Altarpiece in 1403, and there are mentions of the use of eyeglasses dating back to antiquity.
  • (12) Appropriate eyeglasses may be matched with the curing unit used.
  • (13) My prescription eyeglasses were taken away from me and I was forced to sit in essential blindness."
  • (14) A 12-yr-old anisometropic patient had worn corrective eyeglasses (right eye, -0.50 +1.50 x 125; LE, -9.75 +2.50 x 60) for 7 yr, and then changed to contact lenses.
  • (15) Since eyewear may have a photoprotective effect, this study evaluated the use of prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses in patients with periorbital basal cell carcinoma compared with other facial sites.
  • (16) Reported herein are two different mathematical procedures for simulating transfer functions of the feedback path of an eyeglass-type hearing aid.
  • (17) As a consequence, incidence rates for blindness are higher for the black population than the white population.Statistics show that black children requiring eyeglasses are less likely to receive eyeglasses than similar age-matched white children.
  • (18) Before eyeglass wear best corrected acuity was reduced for both eyes with the left eye acuity significantly lower than the right.
  • (19) After surgery on the proximal nose, wearing eyeglasses can be difficult and uncomfortable.
  • (20) It is concluded that eyeglasses did not serve as an efficient discriminating feature in recognition memory, and it is recommended that positive eyewitness identification of people wearing spectacles be treated with particular caution.

Glass


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  • (v. t.) Anything made of glass.
  • (v. t.) A looking-glass; a mirror.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
  • (v. t.) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
  • (v. t.) A weatherglass; a barometer.
  • (v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. t.) To case in glass.
  • (v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
  • (v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (2) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
  • (3) Retention of platelets from whole blood on glass beads was performed by the method of Bowie.
  • (4) Populations of lymphocytes were separated using glass and nylon wool.
  • (5) Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material.
  • (6) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
  • (7) A reference glass, five ceramic materials, and one resin-based composite were tested.
  • (8) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
  • (9) Samples of rockwool and glass fibre were compared with chrysotile fibres for their capacity to hydroxylate 2-deoxyguanosine to 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine, a reaction that is mediated by formation of hydroxyl radicals.
  • (10) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
  • (11) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
  • (12) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (13) Three brands of glass ionomer were applied to prepared dentin surfaces of extracted human molars, after one of four treatments with polyacrylic acid.
  • (14) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (15) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
  • (16) When used in snail neurones such electrodes gave very similar pHi values to those recorded simultaneously by recessed-tip glass micro-electrodes.
  • (17) Cells dissociated from 6-day rat cerebellum were seeded on glass coverslips coated with polylysine on one half and hyaluronectin on the other.
  • (18) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (19) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (20) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.

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