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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The making of glass or glassware.

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Examples

  • Several analysts said the customer is likely LG Display Co. because Corning's only other major customer in Korea is Samsung Electronics, which is the company's partner in a glass-making business.

    Corning Slashes Outlook Matt Jarzemsky 2011

  • Silver is used in a wide variety of industrial and manufacturing applications, like glass-making and high-end electronics.

    Gold Settles 0.9% Lower Tatyana Shumsky 2012

  • You can spend a good hour there just watching demonstrations of blown glass-making, fusion and flame-work, all under one roof.

    Days at the Races 2011

  • Later centuries featured the poitician and diplomat Thomas Wyse, who married one of Napoleon's nieces, and the growth of glass-making which culminated in Waterford Crystal.

    Our calculator blew up nwhyte 2010

  • The pavilion features various glass-related exhibits that demonstrate northwest Ohio's historic role in advancing glass-making, including a studio where visitors watch glass being blown into shape like the one at left.

    China Closes the Gap in Glass Making 2010

  • By 1884 they were manufacturing home canning jars, a business they later moved to Muncie, Indiana, to take advantage of natural gas, critical to the glass-making process.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • Previously, everyone had been working on the Egyptian model of glass-making, which had been in use since around 1500 BC: glass was heated and wound around and around a core of mud or a small sand-bag at the end of a long pole.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • Previously, everyone had been working on the Egyptian model of glass-making, which had been in use since around 1500 BC: glass was heated and wound around and around a core of mud or a small sand-bag at the end of a long pole.

    The Allure of Hot Glass Heather McDougal 2007

  • The saga of Toledo, Ohio's recent transition from glass-making to solar panel manufacturing is all the more timely in light of the auto industry meltdown; Toledo's business and civic leaders are scrambling to wean the once-proud "Auto Parts Capital of the World" from its decades-long dependence on Detroit.

    Clint Wilder: Troy the Turbine Builder: Creating the New Energy Economy 2009

  • The float glass process revolutionized glass-making in the 1960's.

    Lloyd Mexico Economic Report November 2002 2006

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