glass

«glass» in Mova's school dictionary: a hard clear material that you can see through, used for… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (glass — uncountable for the material; a glass, glasses — the cup); glasses (plural noun, spectacles)

meaning for a pupil

1) Glass is a hard clear material that you can see through, used for windows, bottles and jars. It breaks easily. tree →

2) A glass is a cup made of glass for drinking, and a glass of something is the amount it holds. tree →

3) Glasses are two pieces of glass or plastic in a frame that people wear to see better. tree →

4) A glass can also mean a mirror, especially an old-fashioned one. tree →

sense in the lessons

A container that measures liquid (cups of juice, millilitres); glasses are also counted things. In science: glass is made from sand heated very hot; it lets light through (transparent). In safety: broken glass cuts, so tell an adult and do not pick it up. Phrases: «a glass of water», «a pair of glasses», «magnifying glass».

examples

• A jug fills 6 glasses. tree →
• Each glass holds 250 millilitres. tree →
• She drank 3 glasses of milk. tree →
• 2 glasses broke, so 10 are left. tree →
• The window is made of glass. tree →
• Grandma puts on her glasses to read. tree →
• Use a magnifying glass to look at the ant. tree →
• Careful, there is broken glass on the floor! tree →
• "Tell me, glass, tell me true! tree →

note

«Each glass holds» is a rate: glasses × amount per glass gives the total liquid. Trap: «glasses» can also mean spectacles in a story about people; «a pair of glasses» is one thing. Glass the material is uncountable: «some glass», «a piece of glass».

In the corpora

• Councils have recycling rules about which bin takes plastic, paper, glass or food, and the rules differ from place to place.
• Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but so do experience and wisdom.
• Breathed-out air is warm and full of water vapour, which turns into tiny droplets of mist on cold glass.
• Tapping on glass, shouting and flash photos frighten animals, which cannot leave as easily as visitors can.
• Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «glass» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.