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glassmaking

glassmaking

1 3.5
An art of shaping hot glass into objects like vases
  • noun
  • /ˈɡlæsˌmeɪkɪŋ/
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  • This new technology was passed around trade routes to neighboring societies, and over the next 2,000 years, simple glassmaking spread across Mesopotamia and the Middle East.
  • Irish glassmaking
  • the secret of glassmaking
  • glassmaking tradition

Examples

  • The science of glassmaking continues to advance.

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  • I have a friend who runs the best glassmaking firm in the world.

  • The next big leap for glassmaking was using it to make containers.

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  • Certain nonhazardous wastes from glassmaking would make good additions to concrete, improving its properties.

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  • The story of glassmaking after that is one of continuous technological change: refining the recipe to create new types of glass, learning to shape it into new forms, and finding new and better uses for it.

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  • Glass beads and simple cast pieces dating to approximately 3,500 B.C. have been found in the region, and glassmaking instructions have even been discovered in ancient Sumerian texts.

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  • She attended a glassmaking workshop to learn how to create beautiful objects from glass.

  • The glassmaking process requires a high temperature to melt the raw materials.

  • After years of practice, he became a master at glassmaking, crafting intricate designs.

Synonyms

glassworking
vsglassmaking
  • Specialized
4.8

A craft of shaping objects from hot glass using heat and tools

includes making glass itself and broader creation processes beyond shaping

How Complex

glassblowing
1 4.2
glassmaking
1 3.5
glassworking
  • Specialized
4.8

Surface Forms

glassmaking singular
glassmakings plural

Morphology

glassmaking = glass + making (transparent) = glass + making

Clear compound of 'glass' + 'making' where 'making' denotes the process, so the meaning (process of making glass) is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word glassmaking is made from glass and making. Glass is the clear, shiny material and making means 'to make', so glassmaking is the craft of heating sand and shaping it into glass objects.