glasses
US: /ˈɡɫæsəz/, /ˈɡɫæsɪz/
UK: /ɡlˈɑːsɪz/
UK: /ɡlˈɑːsɪz/
English Vietnamese dictionary
glass /glɑ:s/
- danh từ
- kính thuỷ tinh
- đồ dùng bằng thuỷ tinh (nói chung)
- cái cốc; (một) cốc
- cái phong vũ biểu ((cũng) weather glass)
- ống nhòm
- thấu kính
- mặt kính (đồng hồ, cửa sổ)
- nhà kính (trồng cây)
- gương soi ((cũng) looking glass)
- đồng hồ cát
- (số nhiều) kính đeo mắt
- to have had a glass too much
- quá chén
- to look through blue glasses
- nhìn (sự việc...) một cách bi quan yếm thế
- to look through green glasses
- thèm muốn, ghen tức
- ngoại động từ
- lắp kính, lồng kính
- to glass a window: lắp kính vào cửa sổ
- phản chiếu; soi mình
- trees glass themslves in the lake: cây soi mình trên mặt hồ
- (từ hiếm,nghĩa hiếm) đóng vào hòm kính
- lắp kính, lồng kính
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 glassware, crystal:
Use the best glass for the party.
2 mirror, looking-glass:
He constantly looks at himself in the glass.
3 window, pane, window-pane, plate glass:
The children pressed their noses against the glass of the toy shop.
4 tumbler, drinking-glass, beaker, goblet:
May I have a glass of beer?
5 barometer:
The glass fell as the storm approached.
6 lens, magnifying glass, telescope, spyglass, microscope:
Look at this drop of water through the glass.
7 glasses. spectacles, eyeglasses, lorgnon, lorgnette, opera-glasses, binoculars, field-glasses, bifocals, trifocals, goggles, sun-glasses, Colloq specs:
These are my reading glasses.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
dark, sun
(also
sunglasses
),
tinted
I wear blue-tinted glasses on sunny days.
| reading | half-moon, (little) round | pebble, thick, thick-lensed
a short, fat man with greasy black hair and thick pebble glasses
| granny | owlish | heavy | gold-rimmed, horn-rimmed, steel-rimmed, wire-framed/wire-rimmed | rimless | field, opera
QUANT.
pair
VERB + GLASSES
have on, wear | put on | remove, take off | look over, peer over
Her father lowered his paper and peered over his glasses at her.
| adjust, push up
She pushed her glasses up and rubbed the bridge of her nose.
| clean, polish, wipe
GLASSES + VERB
steam up
His glasses steamed up as soon as he came indoors.
| be perched on sth, perch on sth
Horn-rimmed glasses perched on the bridge of her nose.
PREP.
behind (your) ~
She blinked behind her glasses. Their anxious faces were hidden behind dark glasses.
Concise English dictionary
noun
+optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision
glasses|glassed|glassingglæs /glɑːs
noun
+a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
+a container for holding liquids while drinking
+the quantity a glass will hold
+a small refracting telescope
+an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
+a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
+glassware collectively
verb
+furnish with glass
+scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
+enclose with glass
+put in a glass container
+become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
