(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.
Shard
Definition:
(n.) A plant; chard.
(n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
(n.) The hard wing case of a beetle.
(n.) A gap in a fence.
(n.) A boundary; a division.
Example Sentences:
(1) Numerous shards of ochronotic cartilage were embedded in the synovium.
(2) Filo pastry contains very little fat itself but relies on fat being added later in between incredibly fine sheets, allowing them to separate during cooking, and so shatter in the mouth into fine delicate shards.
(3) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
(4) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
(5) No topographic relationship was found between shards and mononuclear cell infiltration.
(6) Truth told, I simply hadn't the time to do anything more than snap a bar of expensive chocolate into jagged shards and put it in the middle of the table.
(7) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(8) Проект по форме напоминает оборонительную башню типа тех, которыми утыканы склоны чеченских гор, но будет отделан стеклом, а его высота почти на 100 метров превысит отметку лондонского небоскрёба Shard.
(9) Guardian staff RowanMoore 02 April 2014 1:33pm I wonder how excited these kids will be about 200 towers rather less inspiring than the Shard.
(10) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
(11) "This is a genuine merger of equals founded on core strategic principles rather than straight cost cuts," said James, presenting the merger deal at London's Shard skyscraper on Thursday.
(12) During their frequent and raging arguments, they threw so much crockery that we were able to make a giant mosaic in the garden from the shards.
(13) This nothing then broke into fragments, into shards which were real.
(14) As well as the shard investment, the Qataris last October came to the rescue of debt-laden Songbird, which owns Canary Wharf, and became its largest shareholder.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Renzo Piano’s Shard, a ‘giant middle finger presented to us all’.
(16) Launching his party’s economic programme for the next parliament at the Shangri-La hotel on the 52nd floor of the Shard in London, Clegg said the Lib Dems were eager to position themselves as the party of the centre ground.
(17) For example, he can denude himself of his forcefield of junk-shards and walk unaffected through laser-fields (since he's made of glass).
(18) Taking in the view from the Shard's observatory costs £30 for an adult ticket, bought on the day.
(19) Other videos showed views of Big Ben from close range, the Queen Victoria memorial next to Buckingham Palace, HMS Belfast at its mooring on the Thames and the Shard, Europe’s tallest skyscraper, all accompanied by a dramatic soundtrack.
(20) A police source told AFP a tourist had been “slightly injured” by a shard of bullet that struck her knee during the shooting.