Definitions

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  • adjective resembling glass

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Examples

  • He reckons the yoghurt "lends a welcome freshness", I just think it makes the panna cotta taste like yoghurt – and gives it a slightly grainy texture evident even in Nigel's own version Denis, I must concede, seems to have achieved what manicurists refer to as a "glass-like shine" with his.

    How to cook perfect panna cotta 2011

  • I recall once watching these birds when, in the adjacent dyke, a swan, 600 times heavier, lumbered through the ice-smeared water, progressing one painful lunge at a time so that the glass-like sheet splintered with each new effort.

    Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

  • But the real magic happens within certain narrow bands of parameters where the interactions between the numbers of points on the stars, their sharpness, the displacements of the stacked forms, and specific fineness of the stacking conspire to yield lustrous, luminous, metallic and glass-like forms; implausible forms given the humble materials — stacked black and white stars — from which they are formed.

    Wolfram Blog : Hybrid Logos and a Fortunate Mistake 2009

  • Turns out that the hearts would have been perfect to stick into cookies - they don't melt except for a tiny bit of congealing, and they definitely don't do the "glass-like" look that other candy does in the oven.

    Sugar and Sass Sarah 2009

  • But tapping the screen to place the cursor at a specific spot in an email is a challenge on this tiny, 2.6-inch touch screen since the Veer lacks a magnifying glass-like effect for pinpointing text.

    H-P Smartphone Push That Is Really a Palm in Hand Katherine Boehret 2011

  • From the latter came the low murmur of a lazy surf, but the sheltered stretch of water, not more than a hundred yards across to the white beach of pounded coral sand, was of glass-like smoothness.

    A SON OF THE SUN 2010

  • The company claims the glass-like surface inhibits the growth of mold and algae.

    Builders’ Show: Home improvement, one breath at a time 2011

  • I've been using a black based desktop background for so long I didn't notice that the taskbar is already transparent/glass-like.

    Growl For Windows Adds Mac-Style Notifications | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • The image shows an Asian weaver ant hanging upside down on a glass-like surface and holding a 500mg (0. 02oz) weight in its jaws.

    Weightlifting ant « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • Clackers, which were marketed under a multitude of other names, consisted of two glass-like acrylic balls, each about the size of plum, which swung on either end of a string.

    Galactica Patch | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

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