Le mot anglais du jour

glass

verre

Définitions

anglais > français
glass
1. n. Verre.
2. n. Miroir.
3. n. Vitre.
4. v. Entourer de verre.
anglais > anglais
glass
1. n. An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
The tabletop is made of glass.
A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
2. n. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
Fill my glass with milk, please.
3. n. (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
4. n. Glassware.
We collected art glass.
5. n. A mirror.
She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
6. n. A magnifying glass or telescope.
7. n. (sport) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
8. n. (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
He caught the rebound off the glass.
9. n. (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
10. n. A barometer.
11. n. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm
12. n. (obsolete) An hourglass.
13. v. To fit with glass; to glaze.
14. v. To enclose in glass.
15. v. (clipping of fibreglass). To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
16. v. (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
17. v. (science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
18. v. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
19. v. To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
20. v. (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
21. v. To become glassy.
français > anglais
verre
1. n-m. (usually) glass (substance)
verre de couleur - colored glass
2. n-m. symbol of fragility
Ça casse comme le verre. - That breaks like glass.
3. n-m. symbol of transparency
Une maison de verre. - A house of glass.
4. n-m. Object of this substance
5. n-m. (optics) lens, glass
un verre de lunettes - a glasses lens, an eyeglass lens
un verre grossissant - a magnifying glass, a magnifying lens
6. n-m. glass (drinking vessel)
un verre en cristal - a crystal glass
7. n-m. the content of such a vessel
On va boire un verre! - Let's go have a drink!
8. v. singular present of verrer