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• fragile — 1 Fragile, frangible, brittle, crisp, short, friable mean easily broken. They are, however, not often interchangeable. Fragile (see also WEAK) is applicable to whatever must be handled or treated carefully lest it be broken {a fragile antique… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Glass Mask — Cover of the first tankōbon of the series. ガラスの仮面 (Garasu no Kamen) …   Wikipedia

• glass snake — glass′ snake n. ram any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, of the Eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail Also called glass′ liz ard …   From formal English to slang

• fragile — 01. Be careful with that box; it has dishes and glasses in it, so it s really [fragile]. 02. My grandmother is really old, and her bones are [fragile] because she didn t get enough calcium in her diet when she was growing up. 03. The government… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Glass transition — The liquid glass transition (or glass transition for short) is the reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline materials) from a hard and relatively brittle state into a molten or rubber like state …   Wikipedia

• Glass beadmaking — The technology for glass beadmaking is among the oldest human arts, dating back 30,000 years (Dubin, 1987). Glass beads have been dated back to at least Roman times. Perhaps the earliest glass like beads were Egyptian faience beads, a form of… …   Wikipedia

• Glass Flowers — The Glass Flowers, formally The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, is a famous collection of highly realistic glass botanical models at the Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They …   Wikipedia

• glass snake — noun snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail • Syn: ↑glass lizard, ↑joint snake • Hypernyms: ↑anguid lizard • Member Holonyms: ↑Ophisaurus, ↑genus… …   Useful english dictionary

• glass lizard — any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, inhabiting the eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having external ear openings and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail. Also called glass snake. * * * ▪ reptile also called  glass… …   Universalium

• fragile, brittle, frail — These words are interchangeable in their meaning of weak and delicate, but they do have distinct uses. Fragile is the opposite of sturdy and suggests that something must be handled carefully to avoid breakage or damage: This beautiful china is… …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

• glass lizard — noun snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail • Syn: ↑glass snake, ↑joint snake • Hypernyms: ↑anguid lizard • Member Holonyms: ↑Ophisaurus, ↑genus… …   Useful english dictionary