Glass vs. Grass — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Glass and Grass
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Definitions
Glass
Hit (someone) in the face with a beer glass
He glassed the landlord because he'd been chatting to Jo
Grass
A member of the grass family.
Glass
Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent amorphous solid, that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of the molten form; some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occurring.
Grass
The members of the grass family considered as a group.
Glass
A hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles
The screen is made from glass
A glass door
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Grass
Any of various plants having slender leaves similar to those of a grass.
Glass
A drinking container made from glass
A beer glass
Grass
Ground, as on a lawn, that is covered with grass or similar plants.
Glass
A lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens.
Grass
Grazing land; pasture.
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Glass
A mirror
She couldn't wait to put the dress on and look in the glass
Grass
(Slang) Marijuana.
Glass
Cover or enclose with glass
The inn has a long gallery, now glassed in
Grass
(Electronics) Small variations in amplitude of an oscilloscope display caused by electrical noise.
Glass
(especially in hunting) scan (one's surroundings) with binoculars
The first day was spent glassing the rolling hills
Grass
Chiefly British Slang An informer.
Glass
Reflect as if in a mirror
The opposite slopes glassed themselves in the deep dark water
Grass
To cover with grass.
Glass
Any of a large class of materials with highly variable mechanical and optical properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization, are typically made by silicates fusing with boric oxide, aluminum oxide, or phosphorus pentoxide, are generally hard, brittle, and transparent or translucent, and are considered to be supercooled liquids rather than true solids.
Grass
To grow grass on.
Glass
A drinking vessel.
Grass
To feed (livestock) with grass.
Glass
A mirror.
Grass
To become covered with grass.
Glass
A barometer.
Grass
To graze.
Glass
A window or windowpane.
Grass
Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
Glass
The series of transparent plastic sheets that are secured vertically above the boards in many ice rinks.
Grass
(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
Glass
Glasses A pair of lenses mounted in a light frame, used to correct faulty vision or protect the eyes.
Grass
(uncountable) A lawn.
Glass
Often glasses A binocular or field glass.
Grass
Marijuana.
Glass
A device, such as a monocle or spyglass, containing a lens or lenses and used as an aid to vision.
Grass
An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.
Glass
The quantity contained by a drinking vessel; a glassful.
Grass
Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
Glass
Objects made of glass; glassware.
Grass
Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
Glass
Made or consisting of glass.
Grass
The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
Glass
Fitted with panes of glass; glazed.
Grass
That which is transitory.
Glass
To enclose or encase with glass.
Grass
Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
Glass
To put into a glass container.
Grass
(mining) The surface of a mine.
Glass
To provide with glass or glass parts.
Grass
(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
Glass
To make glassy; glaze.
Grass
To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
Thesaurus:rat out
Glass
To see reflected, as in a mirror.
Grass
(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
Glass
To reflect.
Grass
(transitive) To feed with grass.
Glass
To scan (a tract of land or forest, for example) with an optical instrument.
Grass
(transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
Glass
To become glassy.
Grass
(transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
Glass
To use an optical instrument, as in looking for game.
Grass
Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
Glass
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).
The tabletop is made of glass.
A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
Grass
An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
Glass
Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
Grass
The season of fresh grass; spring.
Two years old next grass.
Glass
(countable) 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.
Grass
Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
Surely the people is grass.
Glass
(metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
Grass
Marijuana.
Glass
(uncountable) Glassware.
We collected art glass.
Grass
To cover with grass or with turf.
Glass
A mirror.
She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
Grass
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
Glass
A magnifying glass or telescope.
Grass
To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
Glass
(sport) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
Grass
To produce grass.
Glass
The backboard.
He caught the rebound off the glass.
Grass
Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
Glass
(ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
Grass
German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
Glass
A barometer.
Grass
Animal food for browsing or grazing
Glass
Transparent or translucent.
Glass frog;
Glass shrimp;
Glass worm
Grass
Street names for marijuana
Glass
(obsolete) An hourglass.
Grass
Shoot down, of birds
Glass
Lenses, considered collectively.
Her new camera was incompatible with her old one, so she needed to buy new glass.
Grass
Cover with grass;
The owners decided to grass their property
Glass
A pane of glass; a window (especially of a coach or similar vehicle).
Grass
Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
Glass
(transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
Grass
Cover with grass
Glass
(transitive) To enclose in glass.
Grass
Feed with grass
Glass
(transitive) fibreglass To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
Grass
Give away information about somebody;
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
Glass
To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
Glass
To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
Glass
(transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
Glass
(transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
Glass
To reflect; to mirror.
Glass
(transitive) To make glassy.
Glass
(intransitive) To become glassy.
Glass
A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
Glass
Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
Glass
Anything made of glass.
She would not liveThe running of one glass.
Glass
A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands.
Glass
To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.
Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.
Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.
Glass
To case in glass.
Glass
To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
Glass
To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
Glass
A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
Glass
A glass container for holding liquids while drinking
Glass
The quantity a glass will hold
Glass
A small refracting telescope
Glass
Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
Glass
A mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
Glass
Glassware collectively;
She collected old glass
Glass
Furnish with glass;
Glass the windows
Glass
Scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
Glass
Enclose with glass;
Glass in a porch
Glass
Put in a glass container
Glass
Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance;
Her eyes glaze over when she is bored
