water glass

Questions about water glass

What does water glass mean?

water glass means "a viscous glass consisting of sodium silicate in solution; used as a cement or as a protective coating and to preserve eggs". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for water glass?

Close synonyms include soluble glass, sodium silicate, water gauge, water gage, water clock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water glass a common word?

water glass is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.