Glass

Definition

glass / glɑ:s; US glæs / n ၁။ [U] ဖန္။ cut oneself on broken glass ❍ a sheet/ pane of glass ❍ as smooth as glass ❍ glass jars (ie made of glass). See also CUT GLASS, PLATE GLASS, STAINED GLASS, GLAZIER ၂။ [C] (က) (often in compounds) ဖန္ခြက္။ a beer/ brandy/ sherry/ whisky glass ❍ a wineglass. (ခ) (တစ္)ခြက္။ Could I have a glass of water, please? ၃။ [U] ဖန္ထည္ မွန္ထည္။ All our glass and china is kept in this cupboard. ❍ There is a large area under glass (ie covered with glasshouses (GLASSHOUSE ၁) or frames filled with glass to protect growing plants). ၄။ [sing] (နာရီ စသည္ စက္ကိရိယာမွ) ဖန္မ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ In case of emergency, break the glass and press the button. ၅။ glasses (also spectacles , infml specs ) [pl] မ်က္မွန္။ She wears glasses. ❍ a new pair of reading glasses ❍ dark glasses. ၆။ glasses (also field-glasses ) [pl] = BINOCULARS ။ [C usu sing ] ( dated ) ၾကည့္မွန္။ He looked in the glass to check that his tie was straight. See also LOOKING-GLASS ။ the glass [sing] ေလဖိအား တိုင္း ကိရိယာ။ The glass is falling (ie It is likely to rain). See also MAGNIFYING GLASS ❏ glass-blower n ဖန္ရည္ကို ႁပြန္ျဖင့္မႈတ္ကာ ဖန္ပုလင္း၊ ဖန္ခြက္ စသည္ ပံုေဖာ္ျပဳလုပ္သူ။ ဖန္မႈတ္သမား။ ❏ glass fibre n [U] = FIBREGLASS ❏ glassful /-fƱl / n ( pl -fuls ) တစ္ဖန္ခြက္စာ။ ❏ glass sth in/ over [ PHRV ] (မွန္ျဖင့္) မိုးသည္၊ ကာသည္။ a glassed-in veranda.

Examples

1. Car windows made of bulletproof glass
2. The sound of breaking glass
3. [slivers/shards of glass] : She had six slivers of glass removed from her cheek.
4. [pane/sheet of glass] : Each pane of glass costs several hundred pounds.
5. A glass bowl
6. A wine/brandy/beer glass
7. He raised the glass to his lips and drained it at one gulp.
8. [glass of] : She drank three glasses of milk.
9. Ramon poured himself a tall glass of gin and tonic.
10. A beautiful collection of Italian glass