Glass vs. Putty — What's the Difference?

Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent amorphous solid, that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of the molten form; some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occurring.

Putty is a material with high plasticity, similar in texture to clay or dough, typically used in domestic construction and repair as a sealant or filler. Although some types of putty (typically those using linseed oil) slowly polymerise and become stiff, many putties can be reworked indefinitely, in contrast to other types of filler which typically set solid relatively rapidly.

A hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles

A doughlike cement made by mixing whiting and linseed oil, used to fill holes in woodwork and secure panes of glass.

A drinking container made from glass

A substance with a similar consistency or function.

A lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens.

A fine lime cement used as a finishing coat on plaster.

A mirror

A yellowish or light brownish gray to grayish yellow or light grayish brown.

Cover or enclose with glass

To fill, cover, or secure with putty.

(especially in hunting) scan (one's surroundings) with binoculars

A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass.

Hit (someone) in the face with a beer glass

Any of a range of similar substances.

Reflect as if in a mirror

An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc.

Any of a large class of materials with highly variable mechanical and optical properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization, are typically made by silicates fusing with boric oxide, aluminum oxide, or phosphorus pentoxide, are generally hard, brittle, and transparent or translucent, and are considered to be supercooled liquids rather than true solids.

A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers.

A drinking vessel.

A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha.

A mirror.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.

A barometer.

(transitive) To fix or fill using putty.

A window or windowpane.

A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, - used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.

The series of transparent plastic sheets that are secured vertically above the boards in many ice rinks.

A ball made of composition and not gutta percha.

Glasses A pair of lenses mounted in a light frame, used to correct faulty vision or protect the eyes.

A kind of gaiter of waterproof cloth wrapped around the leg, used by soldiers, etc.

Often glasses A binocular or field glass.

To cement, or stop, with putty.

A device, such as a monocle or spyglass, containing a lens or lenses and used as an aid to vision.

A dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass

The quantity contained by a drinking vessel; a glassful.

Apply putty in order to fix or fill;

Objects made of glass; glassware.

Made or consisting of glass.

Fitted with panes of glass; glazed.

To enclose or encase with glass.

To put into a glass container.

To provide with glass or glass parts.

To make glassy; glaze.

To see reflected, as in a mirror.

To reflect.

To scan (a tract of land or forest, for example) with an optical instrument.

To become glassy.

To use an optical instrument, as in looking for game.

An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).

Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).

(countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

(metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

(uncountable) Glassware.

A mirror.

A magnifying glass or telescope.

(sport) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.

The backboard.

(ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.

A barometer.

Transparent or translucent.

(obsolete) An hourglass.

Lenses, considered collectively.

A pane of glass; a window (especially of a coach or similar vehicle).

(transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.

(transitive) To enclose in glass.

(transitive) fibreglass To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).

To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.

To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.

(transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.

(transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

To reflect; to mirror.

(transitive) To make glassy.

(intransitive) To become glassy.

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.

Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.

Anything made of glass.

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.

To case in glass.

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

A glass container for holding liquids while drinking

The quantity a glass will hold

A small refracting telescope

Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

A mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

Glassware collectively;

Furnish with glass;

Scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

Enclose with glass;

Put in a glass container

Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance;