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Meaning of கண்ணாடி in English

  • 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.
  • Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  • Anything made of glass.
  • A looking-glass; a mirror.
  • A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
  • A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
  • An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
  • A weatherglass; a barometer.
  • To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
  • To case in glass.
  • To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
  • To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
  • of Glass
  • The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.
  • Glassy; shining like glass.
  • of Glassful
  • So as to resemble glass.
  • The quality of being glassy.
  • A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
  • Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.
  • Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
  • Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.
  • To roll the eyes; to stare.
  • Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.
  • A strained or affected rolling of the eye.
  • A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.
  • Colored glasses for relief from intense light.
  • A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.
  • Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.
  • A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.
  • That which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.
  • See Speculum.
  • To reflect, as in a mirror.

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