(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.
Tumbler
Definition:
(n.) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
(n.) A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
(n.) A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
(n.) A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.
(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
(n.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.
(n.) A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) We pay €5 each and fall into the 7 Estrellas bar (Travesa Alexandre Herculano, opposite the meat market), where small tumblers of excellent wine from the cask are 30 cents a throw.
(2) Don was there first, nuzzling his tumbler, mulling on the quality of his creative.
(3) Now the fantasy becomes near-reality, as a replica of the 'Tumbler' Batmobile used in The Dark Knight movies goes on sale for $1m.
(4) Platelet concentrates made with an initial pH of 7.85 or 6.85 by addition of alkali or acid were stored at 22 degrees C on tumbler or horizontal agitators.
(5) We suggest that the etiology of diabetes has become analogous to the cylinder of a lock containing many tumblers.
(6) Similar to the way "tumblers" allow users to spend bitcoins without being traced, by mixing hundreds of bitcoins together in the same wallet before passing them on to merchants, it is trivial to exchange one bitcoin for another.
(7) 3.02am GMT Fey and Poehler are back, each with a tumbler of what looks like whiskey.
(8) The Weather Service Nuclear Support Office has analyzed the meteorological and radiological data collected for the following atmospheric nuclear tests: TRINITY; EASY of the Tumbler-Snapper series; ANNIE, NANCY, BADGER, SIMON, and HARRY of the Upshot-Knothole series; BEE and ZUCCHINI of the Teapot series; BOLTZMANN and SMOKY of the Plumbbob series; and SMALL BOY of the Dominic II series.
(9) Perhaps now is the time to reach for altogether plainer tableware and glasses, for Kaj Frank bowls at one end of the price range, but more likely to Duralex tumblers at the other as we face a future of, as it were, porridge and tap water rather than the fine wines and dainty dishes it's hard not to associate with Waterford and Wedgwood.
(10) Harding said newspapers had been undervalued for years, pointing out that when the Times was founded in the 18th century it had cost more than double a coffee or a tumblerful of gin.
(11) Lock cylinders of five manufacturers, employing tumblers of several different compositions, were examined.
(12) The hypotheses developing on that are often extremely suggestive and incorrect hypotheses on the first opportunity sometimes reappear like a "cork-tumbler".
(13) Why does a pack of plastic pint tumblers retailing for £2 appear in a promotional bin with economical-looking red-and-yellow labelling when it isn’t discounted at all?
(14) Microscopic examination of the tumblers of pin and disc tumbler lock cylinders may indicate whether an attempt has been made to pick the lock.
(15) With the tumbler rotator, there was no loss of platelets and antibody binding to GP Ib remained normal.
(16) Similar, but less striking changes occurred in acidified platelet concentrates stored on the tumbler rotator.
(17) The parlor tumbler is a breed of domestic pigeon which displays a hereditary movement disorder resulting in backward somersaulting upon attempting to fly.
(18) Each tumbler, e.g., environment, genetics, or cellular interactions, must be aligned before the key can be turned and an understanding of the etiologic process claimed.
(19) This form of purpura was undoubtedly due to self-mutilation by establishing of a vacuum over the skin produced by a tumbler from which the air had been partially aspirated.
(20) And the tumbler of whisky she sometimes slowly drained between 11am and the end of lunch must have helped.