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Glass Wool

Definition: Glass Wool

Glass Wool

Noun

1. Glass fibers spun and massed into bundles resembling wool.

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


Specialty Definitions: Glass Wool

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Mining

See:mineral wool. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Glass Wool

Specialty definitions using "glass wool": Batt/Blanketdisposable ear plugs, dissipative absorber, dissipative attenuator. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Glass Wool

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Business

The country's annual thermal insulation material imports (i.e., imports of polyurethane, phenolics, polystyrene, glass wool, and rock wool) are valued at approximately USD 100 million, of which about ten percent is supplied by the United States. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Glass Wool

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

  glass wool

7
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Modern Translations: Glass Wool

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

Albanian

  

lesh xhami (fiberglass, fibreglass). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏صوف الزجاج. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стъклена вата. (various references)

   

Czech

  

sklenìná vlna. (various references)

   

Danish

  

glasuld (spun glass). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

glaswol, glaswatten. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lasivilla (spun glass). (various references)

   

French

  

laine de verre. (various references)

   

German

  

Glaswolle (fiberglass), Glaswatte. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στιβάδα από υαλοβάμβακα, υαλοβάμβακασ (glass fibre), υαλοβάμβακας (glass fibre). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

צמר זכוכית. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

üveggyapot (fiberglass, fibreglass, glass fibre). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ovatta di vetro, lana di vetro (fiberglass). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

グノーシス主義 (bat boy, Generally Recognied as Safe list, gladiolus, gladius, glasnost, glass, glass boat, glass fiber, glass fiber pole, glass fiber rod, glass fiber ski, glider, gnosis, Gnosticism, gradation, gradient, granulated, graphic equalizer, GRAS list, grass, grass court, grass ski, grassroots democracy, gratin, grind, grinder, ground boy, ground hostess, ground manners, ground rule, ground stroke, ground zero, groundkeeper, grout, grouting, sports ground, sports oval, thank you), ガラス綿 , ガス焜炉 (background chatter on a soundtrack, chewing gum, gadget, gadget bag, gadolinium, gamelan, gas range, gas station, gasohol, gasoline, gasoline engine car, gasoline stand, gateau, GATT, gattable, gavotte, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, glass, glass block, governability, gut, guts, guts pose, packing tape, pane, petrol). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

グラスウール , ガラスめ", ガラスウール . (various references)

   

Manx

  

snaie glonney. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

assglay oolway

   

Portuguese

  

pasta de vidro. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стеклянная шерсть, стеклянная вата (glass-wool). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

staklena vuna. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

guata de vidrio, fibra de vidrio (fiberglass, fibreglass), algodón de vidrio. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

glasull (spun glass), glasfiberull. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cam yünü. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Glass Wool

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-l-l-o-o-s-s-w"

-2 letters: gallows, glossal, sallows, sawlogs.

-3 letters: allows, glossa, sallow, salols, sawlog.

-4 letters: aglow, allow, awols, galls, gaols, glass, gloss, glows, goals, lasso, logos, ollas, sagos, salol, slags, slaws, slogs, slows, solos, swags, walls, wools.

-5 letters: alls, alow, also, awls, awol, gall, gals, gaol, glow, goal, goas, goos, lags, lass, laws, logo, logs, loos, loss, lows.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Glass Wool


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 6C 61 73 73      57 6F 6F 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110011 00100000 01010111 01101111 01101111 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#108 &#97 &#115 &#115 &#32 &#87 &#111 &#111 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 006C 0061 0073 0073      0057 006F 006F 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4178678585257818178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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