(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.
Jug
Definition:
(n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
(n.) A pitcher; a ewer.
(n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup.
(v. t.) To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
(v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.
(v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
(v. i.) To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(2) Allow to cool slightly for a few minutes before serving, with a jug of chilled cream alongside.
(3) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(4) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
(5) You will never see cream in my house that is not in a jug, nor salt that is not in a cellar.
(6) I requested a jug from the nurse but she said the jug was broken and they had no others available.
(7) They took the term skiffle from a favourite record, Home Town Skiffle, a compilation of American jug band styles and western swing.
(8) I'm not too well up on the Middle Eastern judicial system, but couldn't he get slung in the jug for a very long time for that?
(9) "Look – Putin didn't find down there jugs that had lain there for many thousands of years.
(10) If anything, his brother David looks more like Wallace because he really does have Wallace-style jug ears.
(11) When a glass+jug (900 ml) was visible the alcoholics drank significantly more than the non-alcoholics.
(12) The product was jugged to be galactonic acid, based on the behavior of the acetylmethyl ester derivative of the product and the pentaacetyl derivative of the galactonic methyl ester during gas chromatography.
(13) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
(14) Earlier this year, Waitrose reported that sales of 1 litre mixing bowls had more than doubled, measuring jug sales had quadrupled and rolling pins were up 40% .
(15) A row of Toby jugs grinned and grimaced from an ornament rail in the hall.
(16) Still employed in the early 1990s, the classic label sported a blue-and-white striped milk jug beside two cherry-red mugs, resting on sheaves of wheat, against an luminous yellow arc of - well, obviously, an incandescent light bulb.
(17) I was disciplined for not changing the water often enough for a woman I was caring for despite the jug never being less than half full.
(18) Thymol mouthwash which had been made up and distributed in communal jugs was found to be contaminated with the epidemic strain and was the likely source for this outbreak.
(19) The woman declined an offer to post the jugs back to her afterwards, and the constable now has one "at home as a little keepsake because I thought it was such a nice gesture".
(20) He is, for instance, technically taller than Martin Freeman but not by much more than a jug of Bree's finest hobbit ale.