Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.

Two examples of these traditions are the parties Long Tall Glasses ( a formal affair thrown by North ) and TQ Day ( a tequila-centered " beach " party thrown by West ).

Glasses, some ceramics, and many natural materials are amorphous, not possessing any long-range order in their atomic arrangements.

Glasses are amorphous solids ( e. g. amorphous materials that are at temperatures below the glass transition temperature ) which are usually fabricated when the viscous molten material cools very rapidly to below its glass transition temperature, without sufficient time for a regular crystal lattice to form.

Glasses ( optical fibers ), crystals and ceramics with Yb < sup > 3 +</ sup > are used.

Glasses and other non-crystalline, amorphous solids without long-range order are not thermal equilibrium ground states ; therefore they are described below as nonclassical states of matter.

), Rambo Amadeus recorded a Laibach parody song " Samit u burekđinici Laibach " (" Summit in the burek-bakery Laibach "), featuring the song lyrics from the poems " Santa Maria della Salute " (" Saint Mary of Health ") by Laza Kostić and " Ne, nemoj mi prići " (" No, Do Not Come Near Me ") by Desanka Maksimović and the chorus from the turbo folk singer Šaban Šaulić song " Čaše lomim, ruke mi krvave " (" I Break the Glasses, My Hands are Bleeding ").

Glasses or " spectacles " are worn on the face a short distance in front of the eye.

Glasses, also known as eyeglasses ( formal ), spectacles or simply specs ( informal ), are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes.

Glasses that can be purchased off the shelf are available in a wide variety of colors and designs, suitable for different tastes.

Musicians Buddy Holly and John Lennon became synonymous with the styles of eye-glasses they wore to the point that thick, black horn-rimmed glasses are often called " Buddy Holly glasses " and perfectly round metal eyeglass frames called " John Lennon Glasses.

These included Glasses of Archimedes which could set ships afire at sea and an early form of machine gun " in which a number of musket barrels are fastened together in such a manner as to allow one man to take the place of a hundred musketeers in battle.

Glasses are placed an inch or so above the knives, also in the order of use: white wine, red wine, dessert wine, and water tumbler.

Glasses ( non-crystalline ceramics ) are also widely used as host materials for lasers.

Muppet * Vision 3D along with Captain EO are one of two Disney 3D attractions currently playing which actually calls their glasses " 3D Glasses " ( It's Tough to Be a Bug utilizes " Bug Eyes ", Star Tours: The Adventures Continue refers to them as " Flight Glasses ", Toy Story Midway Mania!

Glasses of beer in Western Australia smaller than a pint are referred to as a middy, a 285ml serve.

Glasses containing liquid crystal that will let light through in synchronization with the images on the cinema, television or computer screen, using the concept of alternate-frame sequencing.

In the novel, the Brain Gremlin subdues and locks Bischoff in his bathroom before taking the reins for a little bit to explain that the Gremlins take over at this point in the film, his displeasure at Bischoff using the nickname " Mr. Glasses " instead of his official name, and begins a treatise on politics before Bischoff breaks his way out of the bathroom with an axe and subdues the Brain Gremlin.

Picturesque-hunters began crowding the Lake District to make sketches using ' Claude Glasses ' - tinted portable mirrors to frame and darken the view, and named after the 17th century landscape painter Claude Lorrain, whose work Gilpin saw as synonymous with the picturesque and worthy of emulation.

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

During the early summer of 1914, Gertrude bought three paintings by Juan Gris: Roses, Glass and Bottle, and Book and Glasses.

Lloyd named the character " The Glasses Character " or " The Glass Character " after the frames ; the lenses themselves had in fact been removed, both because Lloyd did not require glasses to see, and because studio lights reflecting off of the lenses obscured Lloyd's eyes on film.

Glasses can then be categorised by their composition and position on the diagram.

Glasses and other vision aids, large-print materials as well as bright but angled reading lights, can help individuals with albinism, even though their vision cannot be corrected completely.

* Now defunct Fair Lawn, New Jersey Mathcore band The Number 12 Looks Like You have a quote from this episode on the track titled " Document: Grace Budd " off of their debut album Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses.

Glasses have lower thermal conductivities than the alumina or YAG, however, which imposes limitations on their use in continuous and high repetition-rate applications.

Their breakthrough came in 2000 when two of their songs, Rozovye Ochki ( Pink Glasses ) and Vechno Molodoy ( Forever Young ) were featured on the soundtrack of the Brother 2 movie.

" Glasses wearing had long been stigmatized, with wearers stereotyped as physically weak intellectuals, members of the clergy, or simply elderly ; President Theodore Roosevelt's wearing of rimless eyeglasses had only recently begun to eliminate the stigma, albeit with glasses designed to minimize their appearance.

The site That Guy with the Glasses put Elaine as the eighth best female character in gaming, describing her as possibly the only staple character in the series to have " a shred of sanity and smarts ", praising the character's independence and resilience as well as noting that as a woman in the Golden Age of Piracy, Elaine has risen to a position of power far above what would be historically considered normal for the time.

* Glasses with little or no difference from those used in other cycling sports, help protect against debris while on the trail.

Glasses fetishism in anime, especially on female characters, is called meganekko-moe.

Mochrie lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife, Debra McGrath and his son Luke, who is a regular contributor on the comedic website That Guy with the Glasses with the show Film Conscience.

Heinrich Uhl, Still life with Jewelry Box, Opera Glasses, Gloves, and Bouquet of Flowers, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm.

A burning-glass being used to focus sunlight on someone's eye, from Perfect Sight Without Glasses.

* Stuart Ashen, a British comedian best known as Ashens on That Guy with the Glasses and YouTube

Recent updates on the actor were broadcast by the BBC's Radio 4 in " Charles Hawtrey: That Funny Fella with the Glasses ".

Still Life with Fruit, Flowers, Glasses and Lobster by Jan Davidszoon de Heem ( 1660s ) Oil on canvas, 87, 5 x 72, 5 cm.

* " I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses Again " ( 2001 )

Prism Glasses, Hemispatial Glasses, and Eye-Patching have all appear to be effective in improving performance on neglect tests.

Others who appeared on the show over the years include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Sam Sheppard, Mother Teresa, Jerry Rubin, Angela Davis, Madelyn Murray O ' Hair, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Gene Tierney, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Mark Hamill, Ginger Rogers, Ricardo Montalban, Howard Keel, Celeste Holm, Dorothy Lamour, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Natalie Wood, Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Peter Lawford, Nanette Fabray, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Carrie Fisher, Robert Wagner, Diahann Carroll, George Hamilton, Victor Buono, Peter Ustinov, Tammy Grimes, Valerie Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, John Travolta, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Sammy Davis, Jr., Harrison Ford, Eydie Gorme, Jack Jones, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli, Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence, Edie Adams, Debbie Reynolds, Gwen Verdon, Connie Francis, Olivia Newton-John, Ben Vereen, Joey Heatherton, Frankie Laine, Eartha Kitt, Sergio Mendes, Buddy Rich, Jerry Vale, Lola Falana, Frankie Valli, Pearl Bailey, Lou Rawls, Yank Barry, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Kenny Rogers, Ray Stevens, Janis Ian, Bernie Taupin, Ian Anderson, Marcel Marceau, Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Joe Namath, Mason Reese, Ralph Nader, Rex Reed, Martha Mitchell, Victor Borge, Kreskin, Imogene Coca, Phyllis Diller, Fannie Flagg, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers, Elayne Boosler, Milton Berle, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Bill Cosby, Henny Youngman, Jack Carter, Redd Foxx, Rodney Dangerfield, Jan Murray, Shecky Greene, Buddy Hacket, Joey Bishop, Red Skelton, Steve Allen, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, George Schindler, Marty Allen, Robert Klein, George Carlin, Sandy Baron, Artie Johnson, Frank Gorshin, Soupy Sales, Jonathan Winters, Charlie Callas, Norm Crosby, Rip Taylor, Foster Brooks, Irwin Corey, Leonard Barr, Pat Cooper, Rich Little, Stan Kann, Steve Landesberg, Andy Kaufman, Jimmie Walker, Jay Leno, Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, Gloria Parker with her Musical Glasses, Ruth Dickson, Jimmy Edmonson ( better known as " Professor Backwards " who appeared more times than any other guest ).

Kinsey interrupts someone meddling with the boxes of Libby's possessions in the Glasses ' basement, and on searching through what remains, finds nothing of significance except a letter from Laurence, indicating that he was in love with ' Elizabeth ', which seems to confirm that he and Libby were indeed having an affair.

* " I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses Again " ( 2001 )

And in 1987, in The Gold-rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man ( Rupert Everett ).

* So You Think You Need Glasses is on the DVD of The Man Who Came to Dinner.

**" Eye Glasses "-Charcoal on paper