Bronze

[brɒnz] or [brɑnz]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a sculpture made of bronze.

(noun.) an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin.

(verb.) give the color and appearance of bronze to something; 'bronze baby shoes'.

(adj.) of the color of bronze .

(adj.) made from or consisting of bronze .

錄入:玛丽--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

(a.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.

(a.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

(a.) Boldness; impudence; "brass."

(n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.

(n.) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

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解釋/意思:

n. an alloy of copper and tin used in various ways since the most ancient times: anything cast in bronze: the colour of bronze: (fig.) impudence.—adj. made of bronze: coloured like bronze.—v.t. to give the appearance of bronze to: (fig.) to harden.—adj. Bronzed coated with bronze: hardened.—ns. Bronze′-steel or Steel-bronze a specially hardened bronze; Bronze′-wing Bronze′-pi′geon a species of Australian pigeon having wings marked with a lustrous bronze colour.—v.t. Bronz′ify to make into bronze.—ns. Bronz′ing the process of giving the appearance of bronze; Bronz′ite a lustrous kind of diallage.—adj. Bronz′y having the appearance of bronze.—Bronze age or period a term in prehistoric arch鎜logy denoting the condition or stage of culture of a people using bronze as the material for cutting implements and weapons—as a stage of culture coming between the use of stone and the use of iron for those purposes—not an absolute division of time but a relative condition of culture.

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