# chrome
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French chrome.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɹəʊm/
* (General American) IPA: /kɹoʊm/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊm

### Noun

chrome (usually uncountable, plural chromes)
* Chromium, when used to plate other metals.
* (graphical user interface) The basic structural elements used in a graphical user interface, such as window frames and scroll bars, as opposed to the content.
** 2009, Richard Wagner, Adobe AIR For Dummies‎, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:So, just as a car might have shiny chrome trimming, a bumper, and a grill that cover the vehicle, so the chrome of an OS window surrounds and complements the window itself. Examples of chrome include the title bar, the Minimize/Maximize/Restore buttons, menu bars, and toolbars.
** 2012 January 29, Jakob Nielsen, “Browser and GUI Chrome”, in Nielsen Norman Group homepage‎, Nielsen Norman Group, archived from the original on 2013-03-07:Similarly [to the chrome exterior of an automobile], in most modern GUIs, the chrome lives around the edges of the screen, surrounding the middle area, which is dedicated to the user's data.
** 2020 January 4, Jimmy Grewal, quoting Maf Vosburgh, “Internet Explorer 5 for Mac: twentieth anniversary”, in Jimmy's Blog‎, archived from the original on 2020-01-09:I had the idea of making our browser chrome match the actual hardware you were on. If your Mac’s bezel was Bondi blue, we’d make our UI Bondi blue.
* (US, slang, collective) handguns
** 2012, “Ali Bomaye”, in Jesus Piece, performed by The Game:Disrespect my nigga Boss and I'm flashin' the chrome
** 2013, “Hive”, in Doris, performed by Earl Sweatshirt:I ain't trippin' long 'cause I can reach the chrome / Heat your home like Southern California Gas, police pass

#### Derived terms

* bichrome
* biochrome
* bright chrome
* chemochrome
* chrome alum
* chrome-ammonia alum
* chrome black
* chrome blue
* chrome brick
* chrome colour
* chrome diopside
* chrome dome
* chrome furnace
* chrome garnet
* chrome green
* chrome handler
* chrome horn
* chrome ink
* chrome iron
* chrome iron ore
* chromel
* chrome leather
* chromeless
* chrome maker
* chrome-nickel steel
* chrome ocher, chrome ochre
* chrome orange
* chrome-plated
* chrome red
* chrome solid
* chrome spinel
* chrome-sulfuric acid
* chrome-tanned
* chrome-tanning
* chrome tape
* chrome violet
* chromework
* chromey
* chrome yellow
* chromic
* chromie
* chromite
* chromize
* chromous
* cryptochrome
* dechrome
* duochrome
* ferrochrome
* hard chrome
* lemon chrome
* mercurochrome
* national school bus chrome
* Nichrome
* orange chrome
* zinc chrome

#### Related terms

* chromidium
* chromium

### Verb

chrome (third-person singular simple present chromes, present participle chroming, simple past and past participle chromed)
* (transitive) To plate with chrome.
* (transitive) To treat with a solution of potassium bichromate, as in dyeing.

#### Synonyms

* chromium-plate

#### Derived terms

* chromable
* rechrome

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “chrome”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* chomer

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʁom/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

chrome m (uncountable)
* chromium

#### Related terms

* chromage
* chromate
* chromer
* chromeux
* chromique
* jaune de chrome
* nickel chrome
* vert de chrome

#### Descendants

* → Afrikaans: chroom
* → Albanian: krom
* → Arabic: كروم
* → Armenian: քրոմ (kʻrom)
* → Asturian: cromu
* → Azerbaijani: xrom
* → Basque: kromoa
* → Breton: krom
* → Bulgarian: хром (hrom)
* → Catalan: crom
* → Czech: chrom, chróm
* → Danish: chrom, krom
* → Dutch: chroom
* → English: chrome
** → Irish: cróm
* → Estonian: kroom
* → Finnish: kromi
* → Faroese: krom
* → Friulian: crom
* → Georgian: ქრომი (kromi)
* → Galician: cromo
* → German: Chrom
* → Greenlandic: kromi
* → Hebrew: כרום (króm)
* → Hungarian: króm
* → Icelandic: króm
* → Japanese: クロム (kuromu)
* → Kashubian: chróm
* → Khmer: ក្រូម (kroum)
* → Korean: 크롬 (keurom)
* → Kyrgyz: хром (hrom)
* → Latvian: hroms
* → Limburgish: chróm
* → Lingala: kolomo
* → Lithuanian: chromas
* → Luxembourgish: Chrom
* → Macedonian: хром (hrom)
* → New Latin: chromium (see there for further descendants)
* → Norwegian Bokmål: krom
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: krom
* → Occitan: cròme
* → Ottoman Turkish: قروم (krom)
** Turkish: krom
* → Persian: کروم (korom)
* → Polish: chrom
* → Portuguese: cromo
* → Romanian: croma
* → Russian: хром (xrom)
** → Kazakh: хром (xrom)
* → Serbo-Croatian: krom, hrom, хром
* → Slovak: chróm
* → Slovene: krom
* → Spanish: cromo
** → Tagalog: kromo
* → Swedish: krom
* → Tajik: хром (xrom)
* → Turkmen: hrom
* → Ukrainian: хром (xrom)
* → Uyghur: خروم (xrom)
* → Uzbek: xrom
* → Vietnamese: croma
* → West Frisian: groom

### Further reading

* “chrome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* chômer

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxrɔmɛ/, [ˈxrɔmə]

### Adjective

chrome
* inflection of chromy:
** neuter nominative/accusative singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxrɔ.mɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɔmɛ
* Syllabification: chro‧me

### Adjective

chrome
* inflection of chromy:
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
** nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural