- vitreous, vitriform
- The first describes something made or having the quality of glass. The second means to have the appearance of glass.
Dictionary of troublesome word. Bill Bryson. 2013.
vitreous, vitriform
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vitreous, vitriform — The first describes something made or having the quality of glass. The second means to have the appearance of glass … Dictionary of troublesome word
vitreous — , vitriform The first describes something made of or having the quality of glass. The second means to have the appearance of glass … Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors
vitreous — a. pertaining to or like glass. ♦ vitreal, a. ♦ vitrescent, a. becoming vitreous; able to be made into glass. ♦ vitrescible, a. vitrifiable. ♦ vitric, a. glassy. ♦ vitrics, n. study of glassware. ♦ vitrifacture, n. making of… … Dictionary of difficult words
vitreous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. glassy, crystalline, vitriform; brittle, hard; transparent, translucent. See transparency, brittleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. glassy, glasslike, thin, translucent, hyaline; see also clear 2 ,… … English dictionary for students
glassy — Synonyms and related words: blank, buffed, burnished, clear as glass, cold, dazed, deadpan, dull, empty, expressionless, finished, fishy, fixed, furbished, glace, glass, glasslike, glazed, gleaming, glossy, hyalescent, hyaline, hypnotic, icy,… … Moby Thesaurus
hyaline — Synonyms and related words: Caelus, air, azure, blue sky, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, clear as glass, cope, empyrean, ether, firmament, glass, glasslike, glassy, heaven, heavens, hyalescent, lift, lifts, sky, starry heaven, the… … Moby Thesaurus
Hyaloid — Hy a*loid, a. [Gr. ? glassy, transparent; y alos glass + ? appearance: cf. F. hyalo[ i]de.] (Anat.) Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
glass — Synonyms and related words: CM glass, CR glass, achromatic lens, adobe, aerological instrument, agate glass, alabaster, aneroid barometer, aneroidograph, astigmatic lens, barograph, barometer, barometrograph, beaker, bifocals, bijouterie,… … Moby Thesaurus
glassy — adj 1. vitreous, vitric, vitriform, crystal, crystalline, glasslike; clear, crystal clear, transparent, transpicuous, lucid, limpid, pellucid, translucent, diaphanous; mirrorlike, reflective, reflecting, glossy, shiny, shining, gleaming,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
pellucid — adj 1. translucent, glassy, crystalline, vitreous, vitric, vitriform, hyaline; clear, transparent, transpicuous, crystal, crystal clear, diaphanous, see through, limpid. 2. understandable, comprehensible, apprehensible; intelligible, coherent,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
