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Definitions: Vitreous |
VitreousAdjective1. Of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; "the vitreous chamber". 2. Relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica". 3. (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vitreous" was first used: 1646. (references) |
Etymology: Vitreous \Vit"re*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression vitreous, from vitrum glass; perhaps akin to videre to see (see Vision). Compare to Varnish.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Geological | Glassy. (references) |
Health | Glasslike or hyaline; often used alone to designate the vitreous body of the eye (corpus vitreum). (references) |
Mining | A. In minerals, a luster typical of that of quartz or calcite. CF:adamantine; pearly; resinous. b. That degree of vitrification evidenced by low water absorption. See also:impermeable; nonvitreous; semivitreous c. Amorphous. d. Noncrystalline, such as volcanic glass.e. Consisting of or resembling glass. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Under certain conditions, vitreous materials may begin to rearrange themselves into crystals. This process is referred to as devitrification.
See the entry on glass for more information.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vitreous."
Synonyms: VitreousSynonyms: glassy (adj), vitrified (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hardness | Adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous; hard as a rock. Noun: stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker; stiff as starch, stiff as as board. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is a vitreous greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown. |
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Health | The eye contains a jelly-like substance called the vitreous. (references) | |
The vitreous is removed to prevent it from pulling on the retina. (references) | ||
A vitrectomy is performed if you have a lot of blood in the vitreous. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. |
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| "Vitreous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Vitreous" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.06% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vitreous": glassy vitreous vitrified ♦ vitreous binder ♦ vitreous body ♦ vitreous carbon ♦ vitreous copper ♦ Vitreous Detachment ♦ vitreous electricity ♦ vitreous enamel ♦ Vitreous Hemorrhage ♦ Vitreous Humor ♦ vitreous humour ♦ vitreous rock ♦ vitreous silica ♦ vitreous silver ♦ vitreous sponge. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "vitreous": vitreous-enamelled. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "vitreous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qelqor (hyaline), i tejdukshëm (clear, diaphanous, glassy, hyaline, lucid, pellucid, sheer, translucent, transparent, transpicuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زجاجي (glassy, hyaline, plexiglas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стъкловиден (vitric), стъклен (glass, vitric), като на стъкло, подобен на стъкло. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 玻' (GLASS, glasses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sklovitý (glassy), skelný (glassy, glazed, hyaline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vitreus, glasagtig (hyaloid), amorf (amorphous, noncrystalline, structureless, uncrystalline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vitreus, glasachtig (glassy, hyaline, hyaloid), doorzichtig (transparant, transparent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | زجاجی (Glassy), زرق وبرق (Glamor, Glamour, Luster, Razzledazzle, Splendor), شیشه ای (Glassy), شبیه شیشه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lasitettu hiili (vitreous carbon), lasimainen sideaine (vitreous binder), lasimainen kivi (glassy rock, hyaline rock, vitreous rock), lasimainen jyvä (steely grain, vitreous grain), kuparihohde (beta chalcocite, chalcocite, chalcosine, copper glance, redruthite, vitreous copper), kestoetiketti (enamel badge, enamel label, vitreous enamel label), emali (enamel, enamel frit, vitreous enamel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vitreux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | glasig (amorphous, glassy, transparent, waxy), gläsern (glass, glassy, transparent, vitreously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υαλώδης (hyaline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זכוכי (glassy, transparent), ז'ו'י (glassy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | üvegszerû (glassy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengkilap (burnish, glossy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vitreo, vetroso (amorphous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | glenny, glenniagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itreousvay vítreo (amorphous, glassy, glazed, gleam). (various references) vitros (glassy), sticlos (glassy, glossy, hyaline, hyaloid), din sticlã, de sticlã (glass). (various references) стеклянный (glass, glassy). (various references) staklen (glass, glassy), staklast (glazy). (various references) vítreo (amorphous). (various references) glasartad (glasslike, glassy). (various references) camlı (glazed, hyaloid), camdan yapılmış, cam gibi (glassy, glazed, hyaline, hyaloid), cam (glass, glazed, glazing, peeper, window). (various references) скляний (glass, glassy), склоподібний (hyaline), осклянілий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vitreus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vitreous": vitreouses. (additional references) | |
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"Vitreous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: veteris, victreous, virous, virtous, vitrearum, vitreou, vitrious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vitreous" (pronounced vi"trēus) |
| 5 | -t r ē u s | illustrious, industrious. |
| 4 | -r ē u s | curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, furious, glorious, gregarious, hilarious, imperious, inglorious, injurious, laborious, lugubrious, meritorious, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, Sartorius, serious, spurious, various, vicarious, victorious. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, gaseous, harmonious, hideous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, impervious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, lascivious, luxurious, melodious, miscellaneous, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, percutaneous, previous, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, simultaneous, spontaneous, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: virtuose. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: outvies, revuist, stourie, stuiver, virtues. | |
-2 letters: ouster, outers, outvie, rivets, routes, sortie, souter, soviet, stiver, stoure, stover, strive, strove, suiter, suitor, tories, triose, troves, turves, verist, vertus, vireos, virtue, virtus, voters. | |
-3 letters: etuis, euros, osier, ourie, outer, outre, overs, overt, riots, rites, rives, rivet, roset, rotes, rotis, roues, rouse, roust, route, routs, roves. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: obtrusive, outdrives, outlivers. | |
+2 letters: outserving, protrusive, retrovirus, savouriest, supportive, uvarovites, vitreouses. | |
+3 letters: enterovirus, intravenous, obstructive, obtrusively, outdelivers, revolutions, rotaviruses, sporulative, unobtrusive, vertiginous, voluntaries, voyeuristic. | |
+4 letters: constructive, countervails, counterviews, equivocators, nonintrusive, obstructives, overcautions, overcautious, overdiscount, overfatigues, overhuntings, overstuffing, overutilizes, posteruptive, protrusively, retroviruses, revaluations, supervention, ultraviolets, virtuosities, virtuousness, vituperators, volunteerism, voluptuaries. | |
+5 letters: arteriovenous, enteroviruses, insectivorous, intravenouses, intravenously, nondisruptive, nonuniversity, obstructively, obtrusiveness, overambitious, overdiscounts, overstimulate, reevaluations, rejuvenations, reproductives, revolutionise, revolutionist, subordinative, subventionary, superventions, supervirtuosi, supervirtuoso, unobtrusively, ventriloquies, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, vertiginously, vituperations, voluntariness, volunteerisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 74 72 65 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. - .-. . --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01110100 01110010 01100101 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i t r e o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0074 0072 0065 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5675868471818785 |
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