What's the difference between glassy and glossy?

Glassy


Definition:

  • (a.) Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.
  • (a.) Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
  • (a.) Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) was covalently attached to an electron-conducting support, i.e., glassy carbon.
  • (3) The second, with amphibole or glassy fibres, is mediated by fibronectin which first binds to the fibre.
  • (4) The glassy cell carcinoma is considered to be a poorly differentiated mixed adenosquamous carcinoma.
  • (5) From these studies, it was suggested that the inelastic behavior of bioactive glass-ceramics was produced by the plastic deformation of glassy phase on the grain boundary.
  • (6) They tricked us.” When Morales speaks of it his eyes turn glassy.
  • (7) Its mechanical behaviour when dry is that of a glassy polymer with tensile strength about 300 MPa and modulus about 20 GPa.
  • (8) Cell lines were established from two uterine cervical cancers, a glassy cell carcinoma (GCC) and a large cell nonkeratinizing squamous cell carcinoma (LCSC), and studied by a variety of techniques, including histology, chromosome analysis, heterotransplantation and tumor marker analyses.
  • (9) In KGS and A-W.GC, which had macrocrystals in the glassy phase, an intervening apatite layer about 0.5 micron thick was observed between the materials and bone.
  • (10) When bimodal therapy with radical surgery and radical radiotherapy was used, the survival of patients with Stage IB glassy cell carcinoma improved to 87%.
  • (11) No significant association between HPV status and prognosis or glassy cell features was detected.
  • (12) We have developed a new type of glassy carbon electrode whose smooth surface with scattered craters reduces its polarization voltage.
  • (13) The detection system consists of two electrochemical detector cells aligned in series: a glassy-carbon electrode for catecholamines and serotonin, and a platinum electrode for acetylcholine and choline.
  • (14) The cytopathologic and histopathologic findings are presented for five cases of glassy-cell carcinoma.
  • (15) Further, the apparent "tightly bound" state, observed at low relative humidities, appears to exist when the polymer enters into a very viscous glassy state.
  • (16) Photo-switchable ion and enzyme sensors were fabricated by the use of glassy carbon electrode coated with nonactindoped or enzyme modified poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) membranes.
  • (17) And if that sentence leaves you glassy-eyed, we'll do our best to explain it as things proceed.
  • (18) Eighteen cases of glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix are presented.
  • (19) In lesional catagen follicles, the glassy membranes showed marked convolution and thickening.
  • (20) A method is proposed for the determination of paracetamol in whole undiluted blood, based on the enzymatic hydrolysis of the drug to p-aminophenol, which is then measured by chronoamperometry at a glassy carbon electrode.

Glossy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
  • (superl.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
  • (2) About 20,000 of those glossy programmes are normally sold for a big occasion at Manchester United but for this game almost four times that number had been produced.
  • (3) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
  • (4) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
  • (5) Photograph: Martin Godwin They say: Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Condé Nast: "Given the current economic climate, it is reassuring that glossy magazines are still selling in considerable numbers.
  • (6) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
  • (7) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
  • (8) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
  • (9) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
  • (10) The launch - from five sites across the US in partnership with Canadian media group Quebecor - will bring him into direct competition with the giants of the glossy world of American publishing, like Time Inc and Condé Nast.
  • (11) For people who don’t care about pop music or the fashion industry, it’s just another month of glossy magazines.
  • (12) Asos also publishes a glossy magazine with circulation of 470,000 – more than Glamour , Grazia or even the giveaway Stylist .
  • (13) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
  • (14) However, Condé Nast insiders say Greig's resignation is expected within days and the glossy magazine publisher's managing director, Nicolas Coleridge, is understood to be discreetly searching for a replacement Tatler editor.
  • (15) In addition to glossiness, color coordinates in the CIELAB color scale and surface roughness were measured.
  • (16) When you subscribe to the Daily Telegraph you get so much extra: “extra, extra every day”, says the glossy new TV commercial for Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney tabloid.
  • (17) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
  • (18) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
  • (19) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
  • (20) Don't place too much authority on universities' glossy photos and grinning case studies – they're adverts.