Here's your winner... better late than... yeah

Woo hoooooo!  Ok, sorry for the late post but, you know, things get away from time to time... so without any further yammering and blahdy blah blahs, here's your winner from last week:

DILLON!

Yeah boyee!  Congrats to you!  Now, please send us 2 new words for next week by THIS FRIDAY!  That's tomorrow in real speak, yo...

Alrighty then!  GLASS / ORIENTAL is due tomorrow by 2pm!  Get em in yall!

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glass

[glas, glahs] 

 

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noun

1.

a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substanceproduced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica andsilicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary varietyused for windows and bottles.

2.

any artificial or natural substance having similar properties andcomposition, as fused borax, obsidian, or the like.

3.

something made of such a substance, as a windowpane.

4.

a tumbler or other comparatively tall, handleless drinking container.

5.

glasses, Also called eyeglasses. a device to compensate fordefective vision or to protect the eyes from light, dust, and the like,consisting usually of two glass or plastic lenses set in a frame thatincludes a nosepiece for resting on the bridge of the nose and twosidepieces extending over or around the ears (usually used with pairof).

Compare goggle (def 1a), pince-nez, spectacle (def 3).

6.

a mirror.

7.

things made of glass, collectively; glassware :

They used to collect old glass.

adjective

11.

made of glass:

a glass tray.

12.

furnished or fitted with panes of glass; glazed.

verb (used with object)

13.

to fit with panes of glass.

14.

cover with or encase in glass.

15.

to coat or cover with fiberglass :

to glass the hull of a boat.

16.

to scan with a spyglass or other optical instrument.

17.

to reflect:

Trees glassed themselves in the lake.

oriental

[awr-ee-en-tl, ohr‐] 

 

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adjective

1.

(usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of theOrient, or East; Eastern.

2.

of the orient or east; eastern.

3.

(initial capital letter) Zoogeography. belonging to a geographicaldivision comprising southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far asand including the Philippines, Borneo, and Java.

4.

Jewelry.

1. (usually initial capital letter) designating various gems that arevarieties of corundum:
   Oriental aquamarine; Oriental ruby.
2. fine or precious; orient :
   oriental agate; oriental garnet.
3. designating certain natural saltwater pearls found especially in theOrient.

noun

5.

(usually initial capital letter) Older Use: Usually Disparaging andOffensive. a native or inhabitant of the Orient.

Snagged from http://dictionary.reference.com/