Glass vs. Porcelain

Glassnoun

(uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.

Glassnoun

(countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

Glassnoun

(metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

Glassnoun

(uncountable) Glassware.

Glassnoun

A mirror.

Glassnoun

A magnifying glass or telescope.

Glassnoun

(sport) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.

Glassnoun

The backboard.

Glassnoun

(ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.

Glassnoun

A barometer.

Glassnoun

Transparent or translucent.

Glassnoun

(obsolete) An hourglass.

Glassverb

(transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.

Glassverb

(transitive) To enclose in glass.

Glassverb

(transitive) fibreglass. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).

Glassverb

To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.

Glassverb

(science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.

Glassverb

To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.

Glassverb

To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

Glassverb

To reflect; to mirror.

Glassverb

To become glassy.

Glassnoun

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, 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.

Glassnoun

Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.

Glassnoun

Anything made of glass.

Glassnoun

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

Glassverb

To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.

Glassverb

To case in glass.

Glassverb

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

Glassverb

To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

Glassnoun

a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

Glassnoun

a glass container for holding liquids while drinking

Glassnoun

the quantity a glass will hold

Glassnoun

a small refracting telescope

Glassnoun

amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

Glassnoun

a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

Glassnoun

glassware collectively;

Glassverb

furnish with glass;

Glassverb

scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

Glassverb

enclose with glass;

Glassverb

put in a glass container

Glassverb

become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance;

Glassnoun

a hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles

Glassnoun

a substance similar to glass which has solidified from a molten state without crystallizing

Glassnoun

glassware

Glassnoun

greenhouses or cold frames considered collectively

Glassnoun

a drinking container made from glass

Glassnoun

the contents of a glass

Glassnoun

a lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens.

Glassnoun

a mirror

Glassnoun

a weather glass.

Glassnoun

an hourglass

Glassverb

cover or enclose with glass

Glassverb

(especially in hunting) scan (one's surroundings) with binoculars

Glassverb

hit (someone) in the face with a beer glass

Glassverb

reflect as if in a mirror

Glass

Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent amorphous solid, that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of the molten form; some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occurring.

Porcelainnoun

A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.

Porcelainnoun

: porcelain tableware.

Porcelainnoun

: the kind of clay traditionally used in China to manufacture porcelain.

Porcelainnoun

An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware.

Porcelainnoun

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Porcelainnoun

: strings of shells, beads, etc. used as ornamentation or currency; the composite shells, beads, etc.

Porcelainnoun

A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers.

Porcelainnoun

Purslain.

Porcelainnoun

A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; - called also China, or China ware.

Porcelainnoun

ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic

Porcelain

Porcelain () is a ceramic material made by heating materials, generally including a material like kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 °C (2,200 and 2,600 °F). The strength, and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises mainly from vitrification and the formation of the mineral mullite within the body at these high temperatures.