meaning of glass

1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
2. To case in glass.
3. To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
4. To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
5. Alt. of Glassmaker
6. 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.
7. Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
8. Anything made of glass.
9. A looking-glass; a mirror.
10. A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
11. A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
12. An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
13. A weatherglass; a barometer.
14. GLASS General LAnguage for System Semantics. An Esprit project at the University of Nijmegen. ftp://phoibos. cs. kun. nl/pub/GLASS.
15. glass IBM silicon. [Jargon File] glass box testing white box testing glassfet /glasfet/ [Analogy with MOSFET] or "firebottle" A humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube. [Jargon File] glass tty /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas titee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it cant do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesnt produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 without cursor control. See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty. GLB greatest lower bound glibc GNU C Library Glish Glish is an interpretive language for building loosely-coupled distributed systems from modular, event-oriented programs. Written by Vern Paxson lbl. gov>. These programs are written in conventional languages such as C, C++, or Fortran. Glish scripts can create local and remote processes and control their communication. Glish also provides a full, array-oriented programming language similar to S for manipulating binary data sent between the processes. In general Glish uses a centralised communication model where interprocess communication passes through the Glish interpreter, allowing dynamic modification and rerouting of data values, but Glish also supports point-to-point links between processes when necessary for high performance. Version 2. 4. 1 includes an interpreter, C++ class library and user manual. It requires C++ and there are ports to SunOS, Ultrix, an HP/UX rusty. ftp://ftp. ee. lbl. gov/glish/glish-2. 4. 1. tar. Z. ["Glish: A User-Level Software Bus for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems," Vern Paxson and Chris Saltmarsh, Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Conference, San Diego, CA, January, 1993].
16. a glass container for holding liquids while drinking

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