glassy
IPA: gɫˈæsi
noun
- (Ulster) Glass marble.
adjective
- Of or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective.
- (sailing, surfing, of water, not comparable) Lacking any chop; smooth and mostly flat.
- Including a lot of glass.
- Extensively glazed.
- (of eyes) Dull; expressionless; lifeless.
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Examples of "glassy" in Sentences
- The sand is vitreous and glassy.
- What is the nature of the glassy state
- Between these bands the quartz is glassy and clear.
- The result is translucent but slightly glassy in feel.
- It makes the lava very viscous, or thick, and very glassy.
- He gaped in a stiff and glassy way, as of a horse with tetanus.
- The diffraction pattern shows it to be an isotropic glassy phase.
- The structure of glassy carbon has long been a subject of debate.
- Wind conditions can vary by the hour, and are often calm and glassy.
- The cooled melt is transparent, glassy and capable of being finely divided.
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