Palavra Inglês do Dia
glass
copo
Definições
| inglês > português |
| glass |
| 1. Substantivo. (incontável) vidro |
| This thing was made of glass! (Essa coisa foi feita de vidro!) |
| 2. Substantivo. (contável) copo |
| He asked for a glass of beer. (Ele pediu um copo de cerveja) |
| 3. Substantivo. (contável, plural) óculos |
| I lost my glasses! (Perdi meus óculos!) |
| inglês > inglês |
| 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. |
| português > inglês |
| copo |
| 1. n-m. glass, id=vessel (vessel from which one drinks) |
Pronúncia
Exemplos
| Could I have a glass of water, please? Eu poderia beber água, por favor? Give me a glass of water, please. Me dê um copo d'água, por favor. Do not drink the water in the dirty glass! Não beba a água no copo sujo! Aluminium and glass are important materials in civil construction, even though not as important as steel and wood, for instance. O alumínio e o vidro são materiais importantes na construção civil, embora não tão importantes quanto o aço e a madeira, por exemplo. I broke a glass when I did the dishes. Eu quebrei um copo lavando a louça. |
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