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Cut Glass

Definition: Cut Glass

Cut Glass

Noun

1. Glass decorated by cutting or grinding facets.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Cut Glass

DomainDefinition

Chemical Industry

Glass formed, after solidification, into the shape required for optical purposes by cutting roughly to shape initially and subsequently shaping accurately by grinding and polishing, using abrasive powders at first coarse and becoming successively finer. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Cut Glass

Specialty definitions using "cut glass": cut-off tender, glassfinishing-machine operator, automaticGlass, GLASS CUT-OFF TENDER, GLASS-CUT-OFF SUPERVISOR, GLASS-CUTTER HELPER, GLASS-CUTTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, AUTOMATICmulticut-line operatorPAINTER, SHIPYARDsupervisor, automatic cutting machinesWATCH-CRYSTAL MOLDER, window-glass cutter off. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cut Glass

DomainUsage

Screenplays

My nipples can cut glass over here (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Well, hardest substance found in nature, they cut glass, suggest marriages, I suppose it replaced the dog as the girl's best friend (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cut Glass

DomainTitle

Books

  • Rich Cut Glass of Charles Guernsey Tuthill (reference)

  • Diamonds Can Cut Glass + Unrepeatable Miracle: Two Unforgettable Novels (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Cut Glass

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Sideboard with cut glass, home of Jim Hardin. Two Bit Creek, near Deadwood, South Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cut Glass

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cut glass

110

cut glass vase

3

cut glass sterling

35

cut glass tempered

3

antique cut glass

9

cut glass lamp table

3

b b cut glass hole in

8

cut glass russian

3

american brilliant cut glass

7

cut glass mirror

3

american cut glass

6

bohemian cut glass

2

custom cut glass

6

cut glass pre stained

2

cut glass hole in

5

clear cut cut glass red ruby

2

cut glass pattern

5

bowl cut glass punch

2

crystal cut glass

5

abp cut glass

2

cut glass lamp

5

cut glass pres

2

american b b brilliant cut glass period

4

cut glass stained

2

brilliant cut glass

4

bowl cut glass

2

cut glass hawkes

3

bowls cut glass

2

cut glass plexi

3

cut glass window

2

american association cut glass

3

cut glass warsaw

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cut Glass

Language Translations for "cut glass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kristal (crystal). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قطع الزجاج. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

шлифован кристал. (various references)

   

Czech

  

broušené sklo. (various references)

   

Danish

  

slebet og poleret glas (ground and polished glass), slebet glas (ground glass). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

geslepen holglas. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kristalli (crystal), hiottu lasi. (various references)

   

French

  

verre taillé, verre creux taillé, tailler (cut, cut off). (various references)

   

German

  

geschliffenes,poliertes Glas (ground and polished glass), geschliffenes Hohlglas. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κομμένο γυαλί (ground and polished glass), ύαλοσ επεξεργασμένη, ταγιαρισμένο γυαλί. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

metszett üveg. (various references)

   

Italian

  

vetro tagliato (ground and polished glass), vetro cavo arrotato. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

カタン糸 (a couple, beauty parlour, cloth band worn around hair, clothes made from jersey cloth, cotton, coupling sugar, cup, cupboard, cupcake, cut, cutlet, cutoff, cutter, cutter shirt, cutter shoes, cutting, kappa, raincoat). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

カットグラス . (various references)

   

Manx

  

glonney obbrit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utcay assglay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vidro oco lapidado. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

хрусталь хрустальный, граненое стекло (cut-glass). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

brušeno staklo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cristal tallado y pulimentado (ground and polished glass), cristal tallado, vidrio tallado, vidrio labrado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

slipat glas. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kristal (crystal, crystalline, flint glass), kesme cam (crystal), billur (crystal, flint glass, spar). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кришталь (crystal). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Cut Glass

Misspellings

"Cut Glass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cutglass. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cut Glass

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-l-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: cutlass.

-2 letters: clasts, cutlas, gaults, saults, tussal.

-3 letters: ascus, casts, casus, cauls, clags, class, clast, cults, gasts, gault, gauss, glass, gluts, gusts, lasts, lusts, salts, sauls, sault, scags, scats, scuta, scuts, slags, slats, slugs, sluts, stags, talcs, talus.

-4 letters: acts, alts, cast, cats, caul, clag, cult, cuss, cuts, gals, gast, gats, glut, guls, gust.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-l-s-s-t-u"
 

+3 letters: outclassing.

 

+4 letters: gesticulates, postsurgical, simulcasting.

 

+5 letters: cleistogamous, gesticulators.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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