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backboard
English
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: back?board
Etymology 1
back +? board
Noun
backboard (plural backboards)
- (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
- (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it. Designed to practice hitting against such that the ball bounces back.
- (medicine, first aid) A spine board.
- A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.
Translations
Etymology 2
Likely a borrowing from Dutch bakboord (“portside”) or from Middle Low German backbort, bakb?rt (“portside”). Compare also Old Norse bakborði (“portside”), Old English bæcbord (“larboard, portside”). Cognate with Scots backburd, backber, babord (“portside”), West Frisian bakboard (“portside”), French bâbord (“portside”), German Backbord (“portside”).
Noun
backboard (usually uncountable, plural backboards)
- (nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
- Synonyms: larboard, port
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glass
English
Alternative forms
- glasse (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glas?, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *gl?an? (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *??el- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Cognate with West Frisian glês, Dutch glas, Low German Glas, German Glas, Swedish glas, Icelandic gler.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
- (US) IPA(key): /?læs/
- Rhymes: -æs
Noun
glass (countable and uncountable, plural glasses)
- (usually uncountable) 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).
- (countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- (uncountable) Glassware.
- A mirror.
- 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67,[1]
- […] for what lady can abide to love a spruce silken-face courtier, that stands every morning two or three hours learning how to look by his glass, how to speak by his glass, how to sigh by his glass, how to court his mistress by his glass? I would wish him no other plague, but to have a mistress as brittle as glass.
- 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67,[1]
- A magnifying glass or telescope.
- 1912, The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games
- Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns, as is well known, and in the early part of the stalking season, when seen through a glass, might be mistaken for hummels […]
- 1912, The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games
- (sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- A barometer.
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- (obsolete) An hourglass.
- Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ?he would not liue / The running of one Gla??e.
- (uncountable, photography, informal) Lenses, considered collectively.
Hyponyms
(material):
- lechatelierite
- pyrex, Pyrex
Derived terms
Related terms
- glaze
- glazier
- glazing
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ????? (g???)
- ? Fiji Hindi: gilaas
- ? Indonesian: gelas
- ? Japanese: ??? (gurasu)
- ? Kikuyu: ngirathi
- ? Malay: gelas, ????
Translations
Verb
glass (third-person singular simple present glasses, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)
- (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
- (transitive) To enclose in glass.
- Template:RQ:Doyle Colours
- I made the Tryal upon a flat piece of purely White Glass'd Earth
- Template:RQ:Doyle Colours
- (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass.. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
- (transitive, Britain, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- 1987, John Godber, Bouncers page 19:
- JUDD. Any trouble last night?
- LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
- 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale page 72:
- I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.
- 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp page 139:
- One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.
- 1987, John Godber, Bouncers page 19:
- (transitive, science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- 2012, Halo: First Strike, page 190:
- “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
- 2012, Halo: First Strike, page 190:
- (transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- (transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
- Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror.
- (transitive) To make glassy.
- (intransitive) To become glassy.
- 2012, Keith Duggan, Cliffs Of Insanity: A Winter On Ireland's Big Waves (page 32)
- Bourez had timed it perfectly: a wind that was forecast for the morning began to stir just after his arrival and the sea glassed off for a brief period before the waves grew bigger and bigger.
- 2012, Keith Duggan, Cliffs Of Insanity: A Winter On Ireland's Big Waves (page 32)
Translations
Anagrams
- slags
Manx
Etymology 1
From Old Irish glas (“blue-grey, green”), from Proto-Celtic *glastos.
Adjective
glass
- green (of nature), verdant
- grey (of animal), ashen (colour)
- soft, pale, pasty
- raw, unfledged, sappy
- callow (of youth)
Derived terms
- coo glass (“greyhound; tope”)
- glassrey
See also
Etymology 2
From Old Irish glas (“lock, clasp”)
Noun
glass m (genitive singular glish or gleish, plural glish or gleish)
- lock
Verb
glass (verbal noun glassey)
- lock up, secure
Mutation
Middle English
Noun
glass
- Alternative form of glas
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German glas
Pronunciation
Noun
glass n (definite singular glasset, indefinite plural glass, definite plural glassa or glassene)
- glass (a hard and transparent material)
- a glass (container for drink made of glass)
- et glass vin - a glass of wine
- a small container, such as a jar or bottle
Derived terms
See also
- glas (Nynorsk)
References
- “glass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Swedish
Alternative forms
- glace (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from French glace, from Old French glace, from Vulgar Latin *glacia, reformation (with change of declension) of Latin glacies, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?las/
Noun
glass c
- an ice cream
Declension
Derived terms
References
- glass in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- slags
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