(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.
Shiny
Definition:
(superl.) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
Example Sentences:
(1) You've got that shiny new promotion and the job looks great - but do you really know what you're letting yourself in for?
(2) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
(3) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
(4) This is why, preposterously, America is able to confirm plans to send four shiny F-16 fighter jets to Egyptian military on Thursday, while still talking democracy and inclusion for Egypt's transitional process.
(5) With her background in radio, news and current affairs her supporters say she realises that if she wants to be director general she needs more populist programming and the "shiny floor experience" that the Vision post would bring - but she dislikes exposure so much it is not obvious she would enjoy the public pressures of the top job.
(6) The first symptom is usually Raynaud's phenomenon, followed by skin changes; at the beginning the skin is swollen and oedematous, and then becomes thick, taut, shiny and atrophic.
(7) But Sky, which has built its business on the back of Premier League football and other live sports, chose Wednesday to talk up its new schedule and technological advances at its own shiny new £330m studio complex in west London.
(8) Outside the branch in Rochdale, sandwiched between a Nationwide and a bookmakers, Nora McDowell, a retired school cook whose son works at the bank's shiny new Manchester headquarters, said she was disappointed the bank would not be owned by the mutual any more.
(9) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(10) Equipment Let's be honest: good coffee depends heavily on equipment, which is why so many connoisseurs generally prefer to go out to a cafe with huge, shiny professional machines and baristas who have studied their craft in Milan and Melbourne, while their own over-complicated, underpowered espresso-makers gather dust in the kitchen.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The shiny new Postman Pat and his helicopter.
(12) Sitting in a shiny studio peopled with uniformed soldiers, athletes, doctors and more, a heavily bronzed Putin held forth for four hours and 47 minutes, beating his previous record by 15 minutes.
(13) Ownership of eight cattle and a shiny steel roof on their wood hut indicates relative prosperity.
(14) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
(15) 1. pale mucosa; 2. shiny surface and 3. prominent submucosal vessels.
(16) Shareholders may be forgiven for thinking wistfully of the £55 which Pfizer offered to pay for each of their shiny shares.
(17) This was made more explicit as the show developed – the addition of shiny PVC jackets in red, yellow and orange had the clean, zesty futurism popular during the decade.
(18) Europe’s elites have surely been guilty of letting political idealism run ahead of hard-nosed economics – thinking that by constructing a shiny new set of institutions and rules, they could just legislate away the deep differences between European economies.
(19) It has a full operating theatre, with shiny metal and glass equipment.
(20) It's causing Kenya – despite all our growth, the shiny buildings, all the nice cars – to head towards failure."