Get to know Glass better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like glaze or enclose.
Glass in a sentence
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Glass meaning
- An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
Synonyms of Glass
Using Glass
- The main meaning on this page is: An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added). | Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice). | A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- Useful related words include: glaze, enclose, inclose, methedrine.
- In the example corpus, glass often appears in combinations such as: the glass, of glass, glass is.
Context around Glass
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 15 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Glass
- In this selection, "glass" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fritted, silicate, ground, reinforced, diatonic and bricks stand out and add context to how "glass" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a ground glass connector on, a wine glass simple optical, gorilla glass, stained glass and glass bottle. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "glass" sits close to words such as houses, wear and commissioner, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with glass
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is offered in Glass Black, Glass Blue, and Glass Lavender colour options. (13 words)
Although brittle, silicate glass is extremely durable, and many examples of glass fragments exist from early glass-making cultures. (19 words)
Glass valves An all-glass check valve Valves made entirely of glass may be used to restrict fluid flows. (19 words)
Note the barbed sidearm on the filtering flask A glass adapter with a hose barb on the left and a ground glass connector on the right * Ground glass joints composed of all glass quickly and easily fit leak-tight apparatus together. (41 words)
A wine glass Simple optical device: the magnifying glass Glass petri dish Other properties In the process of manufacture, silicate glass can be poured, formed, extruded and molded into forms ranging from flat sheets to highly intricate shapes. (38 words)
The new iMac has a sheet of glass that covers the LCD, and while you can use a damp cloth and some distilled water to clean this glass, you should not use any glass cleaner or other chemicals. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
In the 20th century, new types of glass such as laminated glass, reinforced glass and glass bricks have increased the use of glass as a building material and resulted in new applications of glass.
A wine glass Simple optical device: the magnifying glass Glass petri dish Other properties In the process of manufacture, silicate glass can be poured, formed, extruded and molded into forms ranging from flat sheets to highly intricate shapes.
Fritted glass Fritted glass is finely porous glass through which gas or liquid may pass. Applications in laboratory glassware include use in fritted glass filter items, scrubbers, or spargers.
Note the barbed sidearm on the filtering flask A glass adapter with a hose barb on the left and a ground glass connector on the right * Ground glass joints composed of all glass quickly and easily fit leak-tight apparatus together.
The new iMac has a sheet of glass that covers the LCD, and while you can use a damp cloth and some distilled water to clean this glass, you should not use any glass cleaner or other chemicals.
It is offered in Glass Black, Glass Blue, and Glass Lavender colour options.
Place a metal spoon in a glass (will prevent glass from breaking) into the glass to pre-heat it, before emptying it out.
Sea glass is ordinary glass which has been physically and chemically weathered by the sea and the shore to create a naturally frosted glass.
Although brittle, silicate glass is extremely durable, and many examples of glass fragments exist from early glass-making cultures.
A second piece of glass rubbed with a second piece of resin, then separated and suspended near the former pieces of glass and resin causes these phenomena: *The two pieces of glass repel each other.
Container glass is a soda-lime glass that is a slight variation on flat glass, which uses more alumina and calcium, and less sodium and magnesium which are more water-soluble.
E-glass is alumino-borosilicate glass with less than 1% w/w alkali oxides, mainly used for glass-reinforced plastics.
Glass and plastic welding The welding together of two tubes made from lead glass A bowl made from cast-glass.
Glass diatonic harmonica distinguish The first glass diatonic harmonica (diatonic harmonica made of glass) was created by Geoff Stengel citation in 2009.
Glass valves An all-glass check valve Valves made entirely of glass may be used to restrict fluid flows.
If later heat treatments cause this glass to become partly crystalline, the resulting material is known as a glass-ceramic, widely used as cook-top and also as a glass composite material for nuclear waste disposal.
In the neck and the funnel of the tube, lead glass is used for this purpose, but this type of glass shows a browning effect due to the interaction of the X-rays with the glass.
It is comparable to looking through a glass window: you (bright field microscopy) don't see the glass but merely the dirt on the glass.
Modern reproductions of these articles remain popular in North America. citation Window glass is most often made by floating molten glass on molten tin ( float glass ), resulting in a flat and flawless surface.
Non-classical states Glass main render Glass is a non-crystalline or amorphous solid material that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state.
Phrases with glass
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with glass
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the glass 57×
- of glass 32×
- glass is 21×
- glass of 20×
- glass and 18×
- gorilla glass 14×
- and glass 13×
- glass to 8×
- stained glass 7×
- glass in 7×