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Mining | A concentrated and viscous solution of sodium silicate or potassium silicate in water. Used as an adhesive, a binder, a protective coating, in waterproofing cement, and in bleaching. Colorless; amorphous; Na2 O.XSiO2 , in which X = 3 to 5; deliquescent. Syn:waterglass;soluble glass; liquid glass. (references) |
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Synonyms: Water GlassSynonyms: clepsydra (n), sodium silicate (n), soluble glass (n), water clock (n), water gage (n), water gauge (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Painting | Pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint; (coloring matter); watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish; a, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry. |
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 | Water glass designed by Reighard for underwater observation or photography. In: Reighard, Jacob, 1907, "The Photography of Aquatic Animals in Their Natural Environment," Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVII, 1907, pp. 41-68.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Two-foot water glass used for study and photographing of lamprey. In: Reighard , Jacob, 1907, "The Photography of Aquatic Animals in Their Natural Environment. " Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVII, 1907, pp. 41-68.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
water glass | 106 |
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| Language | Translations for "water glass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kupë qelqi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الساعة المائية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | водно стъкло, водна чаша. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vodní sklo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | verre à eau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wasserglas (soluble glass, tumbler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρευστή ύαλοσ, υδρύαλοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vízüveg (liquid glass, soluble glass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ushtey-ghlonney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aterway assglay silicat de potasiu. (various references) водомерное стекло (gauge-glass). (various references) cev sa staklenim dnom, čaša za vodu. (various references) vattenglas (soluble glass). (various references) su seviyesi camı, su saati, su bardağı (tumbler), su altı gözlem borusu, sodyum silikat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-l-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: glassware. | |
-2 letters: agrestal, gastreas, warstles, wartless, wastages, wastrels, wrastles. | |
-3 letters: alegars, artless, asswage, astrals, atlases, gasters, gastral, gastrea, laagers, largess, largest, lasters, salters, slaters, stagers, stalags, swagers, tarsals, teargas, warless, warsles, warstle, wastage, wasters, wastrel, wrassle, wrastle. | |
-4 letters: agates, aglare, aglets, alates, alegar, alerts, altars, alters, argals, argles, artels, assert, asters, astral, awless, estral. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-l-r-s-s-t-w" | |
+2 letters: weatherglass. | |
+4 letters: weatherglasses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 74 65 72 47 6C 61 73 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000111 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a t e r   G l a s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0074 0065 0072 0047 006C 0061 0073 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)576786718424178678585 |
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