bronze
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French bronze (1511); from Italian bronzo (13th c.), of uncertain origin (q.v.). First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior (for which, see citation below).
Inflected forms:
form: bronzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more bronze
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bronze
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bronzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bronzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bronzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bronzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.
gloss: A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Speaking of round sunglasses, these lightweight polarized ones and come in two shades of tortoiseshell as well as black and bronze.
gloss: A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "This is very good," he continued, addressing himself to the bronze again. "How ever did he do it?"
"With his hands."
"Naturally. But, I mean, how did he study his model?"
On the mantelshelf either side of the clock stood two lacquered bronzes of horse and tamer.
gloss: A bronze medal; third place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.
gloss: Boldness; impudence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.
gloss: Made of bronze metal.
pos: adj
examples: The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
gloss: Having a reddish-brown colour.
pos: adj
gloss: Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
pos: adj
examples: That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.
gloss: To plate with bronze.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
gloss: To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.
North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.
gloss: To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
gloss: To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead
gloss: To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Louganis' runner-up count was 822.09, and Boggs bronzed at 783.78.
Her speedskating teammate, Leah Poulos, captured a 1000m silver in 1976, behind Tatiana Averina of the Soviet Union, who also took the gold in the 3000m and bronzed in the 500m and the 1500m.
Rauch plays has-been athlete Hope Ann Greggory, who bronzed at the Olympics by prevailing over a performance-incurred injury that would later effectively end her career.
Related words: penny
Derived words: aluminium bronze
bronze age
bronze blue
bronze copper
bronze diabetes
bronze disease
bronze featherback
bronze fennel
bronzefounder
bronzefounding
bronze green
bronzeless
bronzelike
bronzemaking
bronze medalist
bronze medallist
bronzeness
bronze open access
bronze parotia
bronzer
bronze race
bronze script
bronzesmith
bronzesmithing
bronze steel
bronzeware
bronze whaler
bronzewing
bronze-wing
bronze-winged jacana
bronzeworker
bronzeworking
bronzeworks
bronzey
bronze yellow
bronzify
bronzine
bronzish
bronzist
bronzy
Corinthian bronze
embronze
gold-bronze
little bronze cuckoo
Nibral
nonbronze
silicon bronze
steel bronze
vanadium bronze
white bronze
bronze medal
arsenical bronze
bell bronze
Bronze Age
Bronze Star
bronze up
bronzite
Liaoning bronze dagger culture
phosphor bronze
Uchatius bronze
rebronze
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