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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#m1)

2) A glass is a cup made of glass for drinking, and a glass of something is the amount it holds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#m2)

3) Glasses are two pieces of glass or plastic in a frame that people wear to see better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#m3)

4) A glass can also mean a mirror, especially an old-fashioned one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#x1)
- Each glass holds 250 millilitres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#x2)
- She drank 3 glasses of milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#x3)
- 2 glasses broke, so 10 are left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#x4)
- The window is made of glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#x5)
- Grandma puts on her glasses to read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#x6)
- Use a magnifying glass to look at the ant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#x7)
- Careful, there is broken glass on the floor! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#x8)
- "Tell me, glass, tell me true! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/14/)
- [Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but so do experience and wisdom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/13/)
- [Breathed-out air is warm and full of water vapour, which turns into tiny droplets of mist on cold glass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/7/)
- [Tapping on glass, shouting and flash photos frighten animals, which cannot leave as easily as visitors can.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/16/)
- [Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glass» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glass/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.