to glass
- verb
- /ɡlæs/
- Jargon
- At the top of a rise, we stopped to glass the distant fields.
- glass with binoculars
- glass the area
- glass the hillside
Examples
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YOU GOTTA SIT UP HERE AND PUT YOUR TIME IN AND BE VERY METHODICAL ABOUT GLASSING AN AREA, AND YOU GOTTA ALSO REMEMBER IT'S NICE TO SPOT IT, BUT YOU GOTTA ALSO REMEMBER, UH, WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE TO GET IT OUT.
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Stuart stood right there on the lawn before the porch, taking turns glassing the far side of the river and talking.
Fiction book (1997) -
Get on the com and tell Fleet to glass that rock.
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Have them glass this river, upstream and down.
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With night vision goggles, they glass the house.
Fiction book (1995) -
Summer is a great time to glass agricultural fields to locate bachelor groups of bucks.
Blog text (33) -
"I bet they crawled up those hills every night and glassed us."
Fiction book (2001) -
We'd glassed his thickets and aspen groves and the low sage ridges where he ran.
Fiction book (1994) -
ANDY BASSICH: I'M HEADING UP TO, UH, ANOTHER PEAK HERE THAT I REALLY LIKE GLASSING FROM.
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Nothing flushes from the creek, so we raise our binoculars and glass the hillside across the valley.
Idioms
To overcome barriers that stop women or minority groups getting higher jobs
- Informal
To focus on the good parts of a situation instead of the bad
- Literature
Entering a strange, unreal world where usual rules are reversed
- Informal
Act carefully to avoid causing trouble in a tense, painful situation
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Literature
An invisible barrier that stops women and minorities from reaching top jobs
A small glass that holds one small drink of strong alcohol like whiskey or tequila
A window made of small colored glass pieces that makes colored light, often in churches
- Specialized
Glass with a plastic layer between sheets that stops it breaking into sharp pieces
A tall, straight glass used for serving mixed drinks with ice like a gin and tonic
- Specialized
A clear, strong glass that lens makers use for camera and telescope lenses
A sheet of glass made with layers of plastic so it does not break into sharp pieces
A fine, beautiful glass object made in Venice, often brightly coloured and carefully shaped
A sheet made of two glass layers with plastic between them to stop breaking into pieces
- Specialized
Glass made with small amounts of the metal lead that is very clear and sparkly
- Specialized
A legless lizard that looks like a snake, has eyelids and ear openings, and can grow its tail again
- Specialized
A clear, hard material made mostly from pure sand that resists high heat and chemicals
A tall, narrow glass with a short stem for layered cold desserts like ice cream and fruit
Glass that shows soft mixed colors and people use for stained-glass windows and lamps
- Specialized
A light hard foam made from crushed glass that keeps heat in and resists water
- Specialized
A hard outer layer of glass that protects a device screen from scratches and drops
- Specialized
A type of glass lens makers use that bends light little and keeps colours from separating
- Archaic
Old window glass you get by blowing hot glass into a round disk and spinning it flat
A glass thermometer with alcohol that rises when it gets warm and falls when it gets cold
- Specialized
A light hard material made from melted sand with many small air pockets used for insulation and building
- Indian
A large evergreen tree from India and Burma with leaves that are silvery underneath
A glass tube with mercury that measures body temperature
- Specialized
A legless lizard with a long tail that breaks off and regrows to escape predators
- Specialized
A sea animal with a skeleton of thin glass-like threads that lives on the ocean floor
- Specialized
A soft mass of very thin glass threads used to keep buildings warm and quiet
How Thoroughly
Surface Forms
Etymology
To glass an area (to scan with binoculars) comes from using a glass lens or spyglass to look far away, so the verb comes from the optical device made of glass.