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Look up: Glass

  1. glass
    A non-crystaline rock that results from very rapid cooling of magma.
    Found on http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gl

  2. Glass
    Glass is a brittle substance made by fusing silica, an alkali and a base.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/A6

  3. Glass
    Glass is slang for heroin.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/PA

  4. Glass
    an inorganic product of fusion which has cooled to a rigid condition without crystallizing.
    Found on http://www.tulane.edu/~bmitche/book/glos

  5. glass
    liquid with its viscosity so high that it appears solid, even though its constituent atoms and ions do not have a regular arrangement like those of crystalline substances.
    Found on http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/

  6. glass
    [n] - a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure 2. [n] - the quantity a glass will hold 3. [n] - glassware collectively 4. [n] - a glass container for holding liquids while drinking 5. [v] - furnish with glass, as of a window 6. [v] - scan with binoculars, as for game in the forest 7. [v] - enclose with glass 8. [v] - put in a glass container
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  7. Glass
    The material predominantly used to glaze windows
    Found on http://www.caldwell.co.uk/glossary/gloss

  8. Glass
    A fusion of sand and wood ash. Coloured with the addition of metal oxides. Used for the production of beads, and enamels for decoration.
    Found on http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/glossary.

  9. Glass
    Wine glass.Transparent or translucent substance that is physically neither a solid or liquid. It is made by fusing certain types of sand (silica).
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  10. glass
    The Romans learned from the Syrians how to blow glass. This was a new and simple technique, although ways of making glass had been known for centuries. As a result, glass became widely used in Roman times. From ca. AD 200 the different styles of glass came together and all parts of the Roman Empire began to make glass of the same kind. Thousands of…
    Found on http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/temetfutue/gl

  11. glass
    (IBM) silicon. [Jargon File]
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  12. GLASS
    General LAnguage for System Semantics. An Esprit project at the University of Nijmegen. (ftp://phoibos.cs.kun.nl/pub/GLASS). (1995-01-25)
    Found on

  13. glass
    an inorganic product of fusion which has cooled to a rigid condition without crystallizing Category: The chemical industry
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  14. Glass
    A hard, brittle substance, usually transparent, made by fusing silicates under high temperatures with soda, lime, etc.
    Found on http://www.rookinspections.com/glossary/

  15. Glass
    known to man since at least 4000BC, the basic ingredients are sand and a flux to reduce the melting point, such as soda. Ideal ingredients are basically, soda ash, lime and pure white silica sand, which are then fused together at high temperature. The Romans used glass in windows, after wh...
    Found on http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glo

  16. glass
    Hard, transparent or translucent substance made from the fusion of silica, such as sand or flint, and an alkali, such as potash or soda. When heated to about 1100°C (2000°F) the ingredients fuse together and become molten. In this state the metal, as it is technically called, can be shaped by blowing, casting, moulding or pressing. Glass can be col …
    Found on http://www.antique-crafts.co.uk/glossary

  17. Glass
    Glass (glȧs) noun [ Middle English glas , gles , Anglo-Saxon glæs ; akin to D., G., Dan., & Swedish glas , Icelandic glas , gler , Danish glar ; confer Anglo-Saxon glær amber, Latin glaesum . Confer Glare , noun , Glaze , transitive verb ] 1. A hard, bri …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/31

  18. Glass
    Glass transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Glassed ; present participle & verbal noun Glassing .] 1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively. « Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.» Motley. « Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests. …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/31

  19. glass
    1. A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or coloured, 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. ... Glass is variously …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?g

  20. glass
    drinking glass noun a container for holding liquids while drinking
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  21. glass
    glaze verb furnish with glass; `glass the windows`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  22. glass
    glass in verb enclose with glass; `glass in a porch`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  23. glass
    verb scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  24. Glass
    `Glass` is a type of non-crystalline or amorphous solid. By traditional convention the term glass is reserved for an amorphous solid which has been formed by quenching a glass forming liquid (or melt) through its glass transition temperature sufficiently fast that a regular crystal lattice cannot form. However, amorphous solids may be formed by methods other than melt quenching, such as ion implantation or the sol-gel method, and since they exhib...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass

  25. Glass
    `Glass` is a type of non-crystalline or amorphous solid. By traditional convention the term glass is reserved for an amorphous solid which has been formed by quenching a glass forming liquid (or melt) through its glass transition temperature sufficiently fast that a regular crystal lattice cannot form. However, amorphous solids may be formed by methods other than melt quenching, such as ion implantation or the sol-gel method, and since they exhib...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass

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21 November 2008

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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