Glasses vs. Eyeglasses — What's the Difference?

Glasses, also known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are vision eyewear, consisting of glass or hard plastic lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms (known as temples or temple pieces) which rest over the ears. Glasses are typically used for vision correction, such as with reading glasses and glasses used for nearsightedness, however, without the specialized lenses, they are sometimes used for cosmetic purposes.

Eyeglasses Glasses for the eyes.

A pair of lenses set in a frame resting on the nose and ears, used to correct or assist defective eyesight.

A single lens in a pair of glasses; a monocle.

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.

See eyepiece.

A drinking vessel.

See eyecup.

A mirror.

(US) Spectacles, glasses.

A barometer.

A pair of lenses fixed together in a frame, used for correcting defective vision. Also called a pair of eyeglasses. See also eyeglass{1}.

A window or windowpane.

Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision

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

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

Often glasses A binocular or field glass.

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

The quantity contained by a drinking vessel; a glassful.

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.

Plural of glass

Spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes.

Field glasses; binoculars.

Same as eyeglasses. See eyeglass{1}.

Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision