Definition of bronze in English:

bronze

noun brɒnzbrɑnz

mass noun

1A yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin.
the Minoans made large numbers of statuettes in ivory and bronze
as modifier a bronze statue
Example sentencesExamples
- During the fifth century BC the Athenians introduced the third and more lowly currency metal: bronze, an alloy of copper and tin.
- Apart from smithying, he would have known how to solder brass and bronze together, braze it as well for stronger joints and how to tin plate objects.
- Durable and strong, and a fraction of the price of wrought iron or bronze, cast iron was the ideal material to use for these trappings in response to the growing demand for cheaper ornament.
- The ancestors of the modern Tatars were skilled in crafting jewelry of gold, silver, bronze, and copper.
- In the past, burials of this date were considered rich if they contained more than a handful of objects, especially if one of the objects was of copper or bronze, or even gold.
- First came copper, used in an unalloyed form, and then the superior alloy of copper and tin known as bronze.
- It can also be used on plastics and fiberglass and for polishing stainless steel, high carbon steel, or bronze.
- Some of the more important metal alloys were gold, brass, bronze and pewter.
- In modern times, bronze is an alloy of copper and any metal except zinc.
- A century ago, before stainless steel was widely available, winery equipment was often made of iron, copper, or bronze, an alloy of copper and tin.
- Handicraft items made of bronze, brass and copper by artisans from different places in the State were also displayed.
- Plates can be made from a variety of metals, including zinc, copper, bronze and steel.
- Two of the oldest and most widely used of all alloys, bronze and brass, also contain copper.
- Alloyed with tin, copper makes bronze, and combined with zinc, it makes brass.
- Many were dug by early antiquarians, who sometimes found human remains with fine objects of gold, copper or bronze, jet, amber and other rare materials.
- Gold and copper were the first metals to be worked, followed shortly afterwards by bronze (an alloy of copper, tin, and lead).
- These early metal users had not yet learned to alloy copper with tin to make bronze.
- He described the ratios between the densities of gold, mercury, lead, silver, bronze, copper, brass, iron, and tin.
- Her preferred metals are white gold, bronze and silver.
- After the War he brought up bronze, copper and brass from the island's many wrecks, at a time when these metals were in short supply.
1. 1.1count noun A sculpture or other object made of bronze.
  on the black bookcase were three exquisite bronzes
  Example sentencesExamples
  Other media, such as pottery, ceramics, bronzes, sculptures and three-dimensional art, grace the gallery's floors.
  Unseen counterproofs by Renoir, French Old Masters and bronzes from the Rijksmuseum are the highlights in New York and London this month
  The show's presentation of his work ranges from the recently restored Bird Basket of 1939 to such tactile carvings as Reclining Figure: Holes and late, monumental bronzes.
  They house an esthetic potpourri of modern painting and Ming sculpture, Luristan bronzes and mobiles by Alexander Calder, furniture by Marcel Breuer and reliefs by Jean Arp.
  Some of the bronzes are caryatidlike figures with limbs missing, and it is not at all clear whether they are intended as representations of amputees or references to the damage that time metes out to antique sculpture.
  Featuring was an impressive and eclectic range of paintings, watercolours, pastels and bronzes of a consistently high quality.
  He also loves sculptures, especially Western bronzes by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington.
  The piece recalls both an early Cubist still-life sculpture by Picasso and a Futurist bronze by Boccioni.
  They are punctuated by colourful abstract sculptures from the 1970s and the occasionally successful stylised bronzes of sinuous nude girls from later in that decade.
  This major retrospective of British sculptor Henry Moore consists of some 120 works, including drawings, maquettes, plasters, wood and stone carvings, and large bronzes.
  Klein Art Works recently exhibited the maquettes along with nine smaller bronzes, the tallest of which is 3 1/2 feet high.
  The visit begins with the civilization of ancient India, with Maurya and Sunga terracottas, Mathura and Amaravati sculpture and medieval bronzes.
  Charlemagne's great new palace at Aachen was built on classical Roman lines, embellished with sculptures and bronzes which would not have disgraced the Rome of the Caesars.
  Eighteen pieces range from early bronzes through mask-like aquatints and oil portraits of his sister Marguerite to a late and joyful cobalt-blue paper cut-out of a nude.
  The book includes photographs of the caves and the temples where the paintings are situated, along with some bronzes and sculptures found therein.
  The Tsais also donated two bronzes by Archipenko.
  The highly sculptural bronzes denote the importance of the commission.
  His interests run the gamut - Old Master paintings, vintage posters, 19 th-century prints, abstracts, bronzes and stone sculpture from Zimbabwe.
  With the assistance of Duveen, Frick formed a notable collection of Italian sculpture - bronzes by among others Pollaiuolo, Vecchietta, and Riccio, and a rare marble Bust of a Lady by Laurana.
  Stamps depicting art shift from European oil paintings and heroic bronzes to ‘traditional crafts’ and, so in some sense, appear to validate ‘African Art’.
2. 1.2
  short for bronze medal
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cuba, which won the League title in 1998 and bagged five silvers and two bronzes in the 90s, and Poland were the surprise finalists in this edition.
  Two years after that, in Bormio, Italy, Miller won two golds, Daron Rahlves won a silver and a bronze and Julia Mancuso won two bronzes.
  Helen Burton won a gold and three bronzes and fellow powerlifters Andrew Hurst, two silvers and two bronzes, and Simon Waggett a silver and three bronzes.
  Currently, it is placed 10th overall with 10 golds, 12 silvers and 13 bronzes.
  He won gold in the individual pursuit, silver in the team event and a superb bronze in the madison with Rob Hayles, who will also be present.
  GB came home with Queally's gold, the team sprint silver, and bronzes for Yvonne McGregor in the women's 3km pursuit and the men's 4km pursuit team.
  Despite weight groups being combined, they won six golds, two silvers and five bronzes - a haul that put them at the top of the medal table - at the West Yorkshire Closed Champion-ship at Knottingley.
  The United States stand at the top of the medals table with 23 golds, 26 silvers and 17 bronzes, while China are second with 23 golds, 15 silvers and 12 bronzes.
  A string of unexpected Olympic successes - Greece has picked up two gold medals and a bronze so far - has helped to assuage national pride.
  Halfway through the tenth day of the Olympics, China topped the medals table with 23 golds, 15 silvers and 11 bronzes - one gold ahead of the Americans.
  And that left Britain on 18 medals overall - three ahead of their total tally for the 1996 Games in Atlanta - with a split of six golds, six silvers and six bronzes.
  It means he could even run up against his old partner Simon Archer, the Olympic bronze and Commonwealth gold medal winner at mixed doubles.
  Australia - who are desperate to add a gold to their haul of three Olympic silvers and three bronzes - battled hard but came up against rock solid defence which only allowed one of their 14 goal attempts into the net.
  He has won three golds, two silvers and three bronzes at world championships in the past five years, along with an Olympic silver and Commonwealth gold.
  Matthew Cowdrey completed his second set of Paralympic medals with a bronze in the final of the S9 50m freestyle.
  He also earned a bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
  Australia have been one of the great forces of world hockey but their previous Olympic appearances had yielded only three silvers and three bronzes.
  Westbrook is also the last U.S. fencer to win an Olympic medal: a bronze in 1984.
  The British boys built on their successes at the last Olympics with three golds, a silver and a bronze at the world track championships in Copenhagen last year.
  Her individual medal collection included 3 bronzes: 100 and 80 hurdles in 1948 Games and 100 in 1952 Olympics.
  Synonyms
  bronze medal, third prize
3. 1.3 A yellowish-brown colour.
  rich, gleaming shades of bronze
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her brown hair that was shaded bronze from the sun was hanging over her face, long and curly.
  There were smudges of color in the face, bronze and lighter beige hues for skin-tones.
  Hours later my legs were a beautiful, rich shade of bronze - this colour is good.
  And metallics - gold, bronze, silver, pewter and copper - move beyond evening wear.
  Look for them in such metallic colorations as bronze, gold and copper.
  Thompson says the demand for dried flowers has grown, but the coloured arums - bronze, yellow and purple - are also very popular.
  The world's best kicking coach is quite the most lovely shade of bronze.
  The heads would be coloured bronze, said Mr Malkin, who has smaller public works of art already under his belt.
  There are 32 to collect, in various shades of cream, yellow, bronze, mauve and purple.
  Ocean looked for her light to be in front of her again, but her necklace was still around her neck, a dull shade of bronze.
  The woman's skin was the perfect shade of bronze; not too dark and not too pale.
  His upper body was broad and muscular, a deep shade of bronze.
  His clothes were of colours ever shifting between bronze, silver and gold and it seemed to shine without reflecting the sunlight.
  They come in green, bronze, purple and varying shades of same.
  Synonyms
  bronze-coloured, copper-coloured, copper, reddish-brown, chestnut, metallic brown, rust-coloured, rust, henna, tan

verb brɒnzbrɑnz

[with object]

1Make (a person or part of the body) suntanned.
Alison was bronzed by outdoor life
Example sentencesExamples
- Before the Industrial Revolution and the invention of suntan lotions, bronzed bodies belonged to the working class.
- Just walking to and from the chow hall has allowed the sun to bronze all of the paler arms and faces.
- He is brown, not to say bronzed, tanned to the colour of nutmeg.
- I've got Richard Glover on the radio, a gentle sea breeze blowing in from the south and the sun bronzing me up due west.
- Two hours later we run into each other on the beach: I'm in a restaurant, fully clothed; he is bronzed, lying on a chaise on the sand, in pink bathing trunks.
- He was bronzed and his skin glistened with sweat.
- ‘It's been a quiet summer,’ reflected one bronzed Tory, familiar from his TV appearances.
- He's fair-skinned and gawky while I'm bronzed and supremely athletic.
- We courted traditionally and nervously over four hot days, as we bronzed away our Englishness on the beach.
- Then I'll go to the Bahamas with a cigar and a martini, and ogle bronzed men with great abs.
- They smiled radiantly the whole time and looked lovely and bronzed in their white T-shirts and jeans.
- But generally the beach is a place where social competition is reduced to fashions in swimsuits, surfboards and body bronzing.
- Looking fit and bronzed, Bertie was one of a number of politicians who have stayed in West Kerry recently.
- It's the portraits of little men claiming victory over themselves, bronzing in the sun before the city hall.
- He was very tall and muscular and bronzed and lightly tattooed, with long blond hair that hung lankly down his back.
- However, her greatest hold to the island may be her boyfriend, Donovan Miller, a ‘beautifully bronzed man with his Chinese mother's eyes.’
- This slave stood tall, so tall, healthy and strong, skin bronzed beautifully under the hot sun.
- Physically, the perennially bronzed Berlusconi is less imposing.
- The beach is deserted except for a young blonde woman, bronzed and perfectly toned, jogging on the wet white sand with a designer dog in tow.
- But beneath the translucent ivory skin, he was rather bronzed, due to the long hours under the sun.
Synonyms
tanned, suntanned, sunburned, bronze, browned, brown, tan
2Give (something) a surface of bronze or something resembling bronze.
the doors were bronzed with sculpted reliefs
Example sentencesExamples
- He had it bronzed and placed on a stand for me.
- It was intended to be bronzed and auctioned for charity, but after it was made, the deal fell through, leaving Aden with a life-size sculpture of the Queen Mother on his hands.
- I also concluded that it was pointless to try and convince anyone else of this; that those who had an opinion had already had it bronzed and placed on the mantel.
- Someone at the VA hospital in Washington found the thing and had it bronzed after Cleland became famous.

Derivatives

bronzy

adjective

A third variety of this species, Clematis montana ‘Rubens’, is growing through Jasminum officinale and it is my favourite with dark bronzy red leaves and deep pink flowers.
Example sentencesExamples
- A bronzy glow now meant someone had money and could afford a leisurely outdoor life.
- Peachy tones look great on most complexions (or dab a bronzy shade on eyelids, cheekbones and lips), while a frosty white tone adds instant sexiness to darker complexions.
- There's also a large bronzy image of Buddha seated in meditation and ornate hooded archways, and sunny colours abound.
- While most people at this time of year think about eating turkey, I think about seeing one - not the overweight, pale, domesticated bird that ends up on the Thanksgiving table, but rather its streamlined, bronzy ancestor: the wild turkey.

Origin

Mid 17th century (as a verb): from French bronze (noun), bronzer (verb), from Italian bronzo, probably from Persian birinj 'brass'.

Bronze comes via French, from Italian bronzo, probably based on Persian birinj ‘brass’.

Rhymes

bonze, Johns, mod cons, Mons, St John's

Definition of bronze in US English:

bronze

nounbrɑnzbränz

1A yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin.
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of the more important metal alloys were gold, brass, bronze and pewter.
- A century ago, before stainless steel was widely available, winery equipment was often made of iron, copper, or bronze, an alloy of copper and tin.
- In modern times, bronze is an alloy of copper and any metal except zinc.
- Two of the oldest and most widely used of all alloys, bronze and brass, also contain copper.
- He described the ratios between the densities of gold, mercury, lead, silver, bronze, copper, brass, iron, and tin.
- Durable and strong, and a fraction of the price of wrought iron or bronze, cast iron was the ideal material to use for these trappings in response to the growing demand for cheaper ornament.
- Many were dug by early antiquarians, who sometimes found human remains with fine objects of gold, copper or bronze, jet, amber and other rare materials.
- In the past, burials of this date were considered rich if they contained more than a handful of objects, especially if one of the objects was of copper or bronze, or even gold.
- It can also be used on plastics and fiberglass and for polishing stainless steel, high carbon steel, or bronze.
- Apart from smithying, he would have known how to solder brass and bronze together, braze it as well for stronger joints and how to tin plate objects.
- First came copper, used in an unalloyed form, and then the superior alloy of copper and tin known as bronze.
- Plates can be made from a variety of metals, including zinc, copper, bronze and steel.
- These early metal users had not yet learned to alloy copper with tin to make bronze.
- Gold and copper were the first metals to be worked, followed shortly afterwards by bronze (an alloy of copper, tin, and lead).
- The ancestors of the modern Tatars were skilled in crafting jewelry of gold, silver, bronze, and copper.
- Handicraft items made of bronze, brass and copper by artisans from different places in the State were also displayed.
- After the War he brought up bronze, copper and brass from the island's many wrecks, at a time when these metals were in short supply.
- During the fifth century BC the Athenians introduced the third and more lowly currency metal: bronze, an alloy of copper and tin.
- Alloyed with tin, copper makes bronze, and combined with zinc, it makes brass.
- Her preferred metals are white gold, bronze and silver.
1. 1.1 A work of sculpture or other object made of bronze.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He also loves sculptures, especially Western bronzes by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington.
  The show's presentation of his work ranges from the recently restored Bird Basket of 1939 to such tactile carvings as Reclining Figure: Holes and late, monumental bronzes.
  Featuring was an impressive and eclectic range of paintings, watercolours, pastels and bronzes of a consistently high quality.
  The piece recalls both an early Cubist still-life sculpture by Picasso and a Futurist bronze by Boccioni.
  Eighteen pieces range from early bronzes through mask-like aquatints and oil portraits of his sister Marguerite to a late and joyful cobalt-blue paper cut-out of a nude.
  Some of the bronzes are caryatidlike figures with limbs missing, and it is not at all clear whether they are intended as representations of amputees or references to the damage that time metes out to antique sculpture.
  Other media, such as pottery, ceramics, bronzes, sculptures and three-dimensional art, grace the gallery's floors.
  Charlemagne's great new palace at Aachen was built on classical Roman lines, embellished with sculptures and bronzes which would not have disgraced the Rome of the Caesars.
  His interests run the gamut - Old Master paintings, vintage posters, 19 th-century prints, abstracts, bronzes and stone sculpture from Zimbabwe.
  Klein Art Works recently exhibited the maquettes along with nine smaller bronzes, the tallest of which is 3 1/2 feet high.
  The book includes photographs of the caves and the temples where the paintings are situated, along with some bronzes and sculptures found therein.
  This major retrospective of British sculptor Henry Moore consists of some 120 works, including drawings, maquettes, plasters, wood and stone carvings, and large bronzes.
  With the assistance of Duveen, Frick formed a notable collection of Italian sculpture - bronzes by among others Pollaiuolo, Vecchietta, and Riccio, and a rare marble Bust of a Lady by Laurana.
  The highly sculptural bronzes denote the importance of the commission.
  Stamps depicting art shift from European oil paintings and heroic bronzes to ‘traditional crafts’ and, so in some sense, appear to validate ‘African Art’.
  The visit begins with the civilization of ancient India, with Maurya and Sunga terracottas, Mathura and Amaravati sculpture and medieval bronzes.
  The Tsais also donated two bronzes by Archipenko.
  They house an esthetic potpourri of modern painting and Ming sculpture, Luristan bronzes and mobiles by Alexander Calder, furniture by Marcel Breuer and reliefs by Jean Arp.
  Unseen counterproofs by Renoir, French Old Masters and bronzes from the Rijksmuseum are the highlights in New York and London this month
  They are punctuated by colourful abstract sculptures from the 1970s and the occasionally successful stylised bronzes of sinuous nude girls from later in that decade.
2. 1.2
  short for bronze medal
  Example sentencesExamples
  GB came home with Queally's gold, the team sprint silver, and bronzes for Yvonne McGregor in the women's 3km pursuit and the men's 4km pursuit team.
  He also earned a bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
  The United States stand at the top of the medals table with 23 golds, 26 silvers and 17 bronzes, while China are second with 23 golds, 15 silvers and 12 bronzes.
  Despite weight groups being combined, they won six golds, two silvers and five bronzes - a haul that put them at the top of the medal table - at the West Yorkshire Closed Champion-ship at Knottingley.
  Westbrook is also the last U.S. fencer to win an Olympic medal: a bronze in 1984.
  It means he could even run up against his old partner Simon Archer, the Olympic bronze and Commonwealth gold medal winner at mixed doubles.
  Australia have been one of the great forces of world hockey but their previous Olympic appearances had yielded only three silvers and three bronzes.
  A string of unexpected Olympic successes - Greece has picked up two gold medals and a bronze so far - has helped to assuage national pride.
  Matthew Cowdrey completed his second set of Paralympic medals with a bronze in the final of the S9 50m freestyle.
  Halfway through the tenth day of the Olympics, China topped the medals table with 23 golds, 15 silvers and 11 bronzes - one gold ahead of the Americans.
  Currently, it is placed 10th overall with 10 golds, 12 silvers and 13 bronzes.
  Helen Burton won a gold and three bronzes and fellow powerlifters Andrew Hurst, two silvers and two bronzes, and Simon Waggett a silver and three bronzes.
  He has won three golds, two silvers and three bronzes at world championships in the past five years, along with an Olympic silver and Commonwealth gold.
  Cuba, which won the League title in 1998 and bagged five silvers and two bronzes in the 90s, and Poland were the surprise finalists in this edition.
  And that left Britain on 18 medals overall - three ahead of their total tally for the 1996 Games in Atlanta - with a split of six golds, six silvers and six bronzes.
  He won gold in the individual pursuit, silver in the team event and a superb bronze in the madison with Rob Hayles, who will also be present.
  The British boys built on their successes at the last Olympics with three golds, a silver and a bronze at the world track championships in Copenhagen last year.
  Australia - who are desperate to add a gold to their haul of three Olympic silvers and three bronzes - battled hard but came up against rock solid defence which only allowed one of their 14 goal attempts into the net.
  Two years after that, in Bormio, Italy, Miller won two golds, Daron Rahlves won a silver and a bronze and Julia Mancuso won two bronzes.
  Her individual medal collection included 3 bronzes: 100 and 80 hurdles in 1948 Games and 100 in 1952 Olympics.
  Synonyms
  bronze medal, third prize
3. 1.3 A yellowish-brown color.
  rich, gleaming shades of bronze
  Example sentencesExamples
  His upper body was broad and muscular, a deep shade of bronze.
  Ocean looked for her light to be in front of her again, but her necklace was still around her neck, a dull shade of bronze.
  Look for them in such metallic colorations as bronze, gold and copper.
  There are 32 to collect, in various shades of cream, yellow, bronze, mauve and purple.
  And metallics - gold, bronze, silver, pewter and copper - move beyond evening wear.
  The heads would be coloured bronze, said Mr Malkin, who has smaller public works of art already under his belt.
  The woman's skin was the perfect shade of bronze; not too dark and not too pale.
  Her brown hair that was shaded bronze from the sun was hanging over her face, long and curly.
  Hours later my legs were a beautiful, rich shade of bronze - this colour is good.
  The world's best kicking coach is quite the most lovely shade of bronze.
  Thompson says the demand for dried flowers has grown, but the coloured arums - bronze, yellow and purple - are also very popular.
  They come in green, bronze, purple and varying shades of same.
  His clothes were of colours ever shifting between bronze, silver and gold and it seemed to shine without reflecting the sunlight.
  There were smudges of color in the face, bronze and lighter beige hues for skin-tones.
  Synonyms
  bronze-coloured, copper-coloured, copper, reddish-brown, chestnut, metallic brown, rust-coloured, rust, henna, tan

verbbrɑnzbränz

[with object]usually be bronzed

1Make (a person or part of the body) suntanned.
Alison was bronzed by outdoor life
Example sentencesExamples
- We courted traditionally and nervously over four hot days, as we bronzed away our Englishness on the beach.
- Just walking to and from the chow hall has allowed the sun to bronze all of the paler arms and faces.
- This slave stood tall, so tall, healthy and strong, skin bronzed beautifully under the hot sun.
- It's the portraits of little men claiming victory over themselves, bronzing in the sun before the city hall.
- The beach is deserted except for a young blonde woman, bronzed and perfectly toned, jogging on the wet white sand with a designer dog in tow.
- Looking fit and bronzed, Bertie was one of a number of politicians who have stayed in West Kerry recently.
- He's fair-skinned and gawky while I'm bronzed and supremely athletic.
- He was very tall and muscular and bronzed and lightly tattooed, with long blond hair that hung lankly down his back.
- But generally the beach is a place where social competition is reduced to fashions in swimsuits, surfboards and body bronzing.
- Physically, the perennially bronzed Berlusconi is less imposing.
- He was bronzed and his skin glistened with sweat.
- Two hours later we run into each other on the beach: I'm in a restaurant, fully clothed; he is bronzed, lying on a chaise on the sand, in pink bathing trunks.
- However, her greatest hold to the island may be her boyfriend, Donovan Miller, a ‘beautifully bronzed man with his Chinese mother's eyes.’
- They smiled radiantly the whole time and looked lovely and bronzed in their white T-shirts and jeans.
- Before the Industrial Revolution and the invention of suntan lotions, bronzed bodies belonged to the working class.
- I've got Richard Glover on the radio, a gentle sea breeze blowing in from the south and the sun bronzing me up due west.
- Then I'll go to the Bahamas with a cigar and a martini, and ogle bronzed men with great abs.
- He is brown, not to say bronzed, tanned to the colour of nutmeg.
- But beneath the translucent ivory skin, he was rather bronzed, due to the long hours under the sun.
- ‘It's been a quiet summer,’ reflected one bronzed Tory, familiar from his TV appearances.
Synonyms
tanned, suntanned, sunburned, bronze, browned, brown, tan
1. 1.1 Give a surface of bronze or something resembling bronze to.
  the doors were bronzed with sculpted reliefs
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was intended to be bronzed and auctioned for charity, but after it was made, the deal fell through, leaving Aden with a life-size sculpture of the Queen Mother on his hands.
  Someone at the VA hospital in Washington found the thing and had it bronzed after Cleland became famous.
  He had it bronzed and placed on a stand for me.
  I also concluded that it was pointless to try and convince anyone else of this; that those who had an opinion had already had it bronzed and placed on the mantel.

Origin

Mid 17th century (as a verb): from French bronze (noun), bronzer (verb), from Italian bronzo, probably from Persian birinj ‘brass’.

单词	bronze
释义	Definition of bronze in English: bronze noun brɒnzbrɑnz mass noun 1A yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin. the Minoans made large numbers of statuettes in ivory and bronze as modifier a bronze statue Example sentencesExamples During the fifth century BC the Athenians introduced the third and more lowly currency metal: bronze, an alloy of copper and tin. Apart from smithying, he would have known how to solder brass and bronze together, braze it as well for stronger joints and how to tin plate objects. Durable and strong, and a fraction of the price of wrought iron or bronze, cast iron was the ideal material to use for these trappings in response to the growing demand for cheaper ornament. The ancestors of the modern Tatars were skilled in crafting jewelry of gold, silver, bronze, and copper. In the past, burials of this date were considered rich if they contained more than a handful of objects, especially if one of the objects was of copper or bronze, or even gold. First came copper, used in an unalloyed form, and then the superior alloy of copper and tin known as bronze. It can also be used on plastics and fiberglass and for polishing stainless steel, high carbon steel, or bronze. Some of the more important metal alloys were gold, brass, bronze and pewter. In modern times, bronze is an alloy of copper and any metal except zinc. A century ago, before stainless steel was widely available, winery equipment was often made of iron, copper, or bronze, an alloy of copper and tin. Handicraft items made of bronze, brass and copper by artisans from different places in the State were also displayed. Plates can be made from a variety of metals, including zinc, copper, bronze and steel. Two of the oldest and most widely used of all alloys, bronze and brass, also contain copper. Alloyed with tin, copper makes bronze, and combined with zinc, it makes brass. Many were dug by early antiquarians, who sometimes found human remains with fine objects of gold, copper or bronze, jet, amber and other rare materials. Gold and copper were the first metals to be worked, followed shortly afterwards by bronze (an alloy of copper, tin, and lead). These early metal users had not yet learned to alloy copper with tin to make bronze. He described the ratios between the densities of gold, mercury, lead, silver, bronze, copper, brass, iron, and tin. Her preferred metals are white gold, bronze and silver. After the War he brought up bronze, copper and brass from the island's many wrecks, at a time when these metals were in short supply. 1.1count noun A sculpture or other object made of bronze. on the black bookcase were three exquisite bronzes Example sentencesExamples Other media, such as pottery, ceramics, bronzes, sculptures and three-dimensional art, grace the gallery's floors. Unseen counterproofs by Renoir, French Old Masters and bronzes from the Rijksmuseum are the highlights in New York and London this month The show's presentation of his work ranges from the recently restored Bird Basket of 1939 to such tactile carvings as Reclining Figure: Holes and late, monumental bronzes. They house an esthetic potpourri of modern painting and Ming sculpture, Luristan bronzes and mobiles by Alexander Calder, furniture by Marcel Breuer and reliefs by Jean Arp. Some of the bronzes are caryatidlike figures with limbs missing, and it is not at all clear whether they are intended as representations of amputees or references to the damage that time metes out to antique sculpture. Featuring was an impressive and eclectic range of paintings, watercolours, pastels and bronzes of a consistently high quality. He also loves sculptures, especially Western bronzes by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington. The piece recalls both an early Cubist still-life sculpture by Picasso and a Futurist bronze by Boccioni. They are punctuated by colourful abstract sculptures from the 1970s and the occasionally successful stylised bronzes of sinuous nude girls from later in that decade. This major retrospective of British sculptor Henry Moore consists of some 120 works, including drawings, maquettes, plasters, wood and stone carvings, and large bronzes. Klein Art Works recently exhibited the maquettes along with nine smaller bronzes, the tallest of which is 3 1/2 feet high. The visit begins with the civilization of ancient India, with Maurya and Sunga terracottas, Mathura and Amaravati sculpture and medieval bronzes. Charlemagne's great new palace at Aachen was built on classical Roman lines, embellished with sculptures and bronzes which would not have disgraced the Rome of the Caesars. Eighteen pieces range from early bronzes through mask-like aquatints and oil portraits of his sister Marguerite to a late and joyful cobalt-blue paper cut-out of a nude. The book includes photographs of the caves and the temples where the paintings are situated, along with some bronzes and sculptures found therein. The Tsais also donated two bronzes by Archipenko. The highly sculptural bronzes denote the importance of the commission. His interests run the gamut - Old Master paintings, vintage posters, 19 th-century prints, abstracts, bronzes and stone sculpture from Zimbabwe. With the assistance of Duveen, Frick formed a notable collection of Italian sculpture - bronzes by among others Pollaiuolo, Vecchietta, and Riccio, and a rare marble Bust of a Lady by Laurana. Stamps depicting art shift from European oil paintings and heroic bronzes to ‘traditional crafts’ and, so in some sense, appear to validate ‘African Art’. 1.2 short for bronze medal Example sentencesExamples Cuba, which won the League title in 1998 and bagged five silvers and two bronzes in the 90s, and Poland were the surprise finalists in this edition. Two years after that, in Bormio, Italy, Miller won two golds, Daron Rahlves won a silver and a bronze and Julia Mancuso won two bronzes. Helen Burton won a gold and three bronzes and fellow powerlifters Andrew Hurst, two silvers and two bronzes, and Simon Waggett a silver and three bronzes. Currently, it is placed 10th overall with 10 golds, 12 silvers and 13 bronzes. He won gold in the individual pursuit, silver in the team event and a superb bronze in the madison with Rob Hayles, who will also be present. GB came home with Queally's gold, the team sprint silver, and bronzes for Yvonne McGregor in the women's 3km pursuit and the men's 4km pursuit team. Despite weight groups being combined, they won six golds, two silvers and five bronzes - a haul that put them at the top of the medal table - at the West Yorkshire Closed Champion-ship at Knottingley. The United States stand at the top of the medals table with 23 golds, 26 silvers and 17 bronzes, while China are second with 23 golds, 15 silvers and 12 bronzes. A string of unexpected Olympic successes - Greece has picked up two gold medals and a bronze so far - has helped to assuage national pride. Halfway through the tenth day of the Olympics, China topped the medals table with 23 golds, 15 silvers and 11 bronzes - one gold ahead of the Americans. And that left Britain on 18 medals overall - three ahead of their total tally for the 1996 Games in Atlanta - with a split of six golds, six silvers and six bronzes. It means he could even run up against his old partner Simon Archer, the Olympic bronze and Commonwealth gold medal winner at mixed doubles. Australia - who are desperate to add a gold to their haul of three Olympic silvers and three bronzes - battled hard but came up against rock solid defence which only allowed one of their 14 goal attempts into the net. He has won three golds, two silvers and three bronzes at world championships in the past five years, along with an Olympic silver and Commonwealth gold. Matthew Cowdrey completed his second set of Paralympic medals with a bronze in the final of the S9 50m freestyle. He also earned a bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Australia have been one of the great forces of world hockey but their previous Olympic appearances had yielded only three silvers and three bronzes. Westbrook is also the last U.S. fencer to win an Olympic medal: a bronze in 1984. The British boys built on their successes at the last Olympics with three golds, a silver and a bronze at the world track championships in Copenhagen last year. Her individual medal collection included 3 bronzes: 100 and 80 hurdles in 1948 Games and 100 in 1952 Olympics. Synonyms bronze medal, third prize 1.3 A yellowish-brown colour. rich, gleaming shades of bronze Example sentencesExamples Her brown hair that was shaded bronze from the sun was hanging over her face, long and curly. There were smudges of color in the face, bronze and lighter beige hues for skin-tones. Hours later my legs were a beautiful, rich shade of bronze - this colour is good. And metallics - gold, bronze, silver, pewter and copper - move beyond evening wear. Look for them in such metallic colorations as bronze, gold and copper. Thompson says the demand for dried flowers has grown, but the coloured arums - bronze, yellow and purple - are also very popular. The world's best kicking coach is quite the most lovely shade of bronze. The heads would be coloured bronze, said Mr Malkin, who has smaller public works of art already under his belt. There are 32 to collect, in various shades of cream, yellow, bronze, mauve and purple. Ocean looked for her light to be in front of her again, but her necklace was still around her neck, a dull shade of bronze. The woman's skin was the perfect shade of bronze; not too dark and not too pale. His upper body was broad and muscular, a deep shade of bronze. His clothes were of colours ever shifting between bronze, silver and gold and it seemed to shine without reflecting the sunlight. They come in green, bronze, purple and varying shades of same. Synonyms bronze-coloured, copper-coloured, copper, reddish-brown, chestnut, metallic brown, rust-coloured, rust, henna, tan verb brɒnzbrɑnz [with object] 1Make (a person or part of the body) suntanned. Alison was bronzed by outdoor life Example sentencesExamples Before the Industrial Revolution and the invention of suntan lotions, bronzed bodies belonged to the working class. Just walking to and from the chow hall has allowed the sun to bronze all of the paler arms and faces. He is brown, not to say bronzed, tanned to the colour of nutmeg. I've got Richard Glover on the radio, a gentle sea breeze blowing in from the south and the sun bronzing me up due west. Two hours later we run into each other on the beach: I'm in a restaurant, fully clothed; he is bronzed, lying on a chaise on the sand, in pink bathing trunks. He was bronzed and his skin glistened with sweat. ‘It's been a quiet summer,’ reflected one bronzed Tory, familiar from his TV appearances. He's fair-skinned and gawky while I'm bronzed and supremely athletic. We courted traditionally and nervously over four hot days, as we bronzed away our Englishness on the beach. Then I'll go to the Bahamas with a cigar and a martini, and ogle bronzed men with great abs. They smiled radiantly the whole time and looked lovely and bronzed in their white T-shirts and jeans. But generally the beach is a place where social competition is reduced to fashions in swimsuits, surfboards and body bronzing. Looking fit and bronzed, Bertie was one of a number of politicians who have stayed in West Kerry recently. It's the portraits of little men claiming victory over themselves, bronzing in the sun before the city hall. He was very tall and muscular and bronzed and lightly tattooed, with long blond hair that hung lankly down his back. However, her greatest hold to the island may be her boyfriend, Donovan Miller, a ‘beautifully bronzed man with his Chinese mother's eyes.’ This slave stood tall, so tall, healthy and strong, skin bronzed beautifully under the hot sun. Physically, the perennially bronzed Berlusconi is less imposing. The beach is deserted except for a young blonde woman, bronzed and perfectly toned, jogging on the wet white sand with a designer dog in tow. But beneath the translucent ivory skin, he was rather bronzed, due to the long hours under the sun. Synonyms tanned, suntanned, sunburned, bronze, browned, brown, tan 2Give (something) a surface of bronze or something resembling bronze. the doors were bronzed with sculpted reliefs Example sentencesExamples He had it bronzed and placed on a stand for me. It was intended to be bronzed and auctioned for charity, but after it was made, the deal fell through, leaving Aden with a life-size sculpture of the Queen Mother on his hands. I also concluded that it was pointless to try and convince anyone else of this; that those who had an opinion had already had it bronzed and placed on the mantel. Someone at the VA hospital in Washington found the thing and had it bronzed after Cleland became famous. Derivatives bronzy adjective A third variety of this species, Clematis montana ‘Rubens’, is growing through Jasminum officinale and it is my favourite with dark bronzy red leaves and deep pink flowers. Example sentencesExamples A bronzy glow now meant someone had money and could afford a leisurely outdoor life. Peachy tones look great on most complexions (or dab a bronzy shade on eyelids, cheekbones and lips), while a frosty white tone adds instant sexiness to darker complexions. There's also a large bronzy image of Buddha seated in meditation and ornate hooded archways, and sunny colours abound. While most people at this time of year think about eating turkey, I think about seeing one - not the overweight, pale, domesticated bird that ends up on the Thanksgiving table, but rather its streamlined, bronzy ancestor: the wild turkey. Origin Mid 17th century (as a verb): from French bronze (noun), bronzer (verb), from Italian bronzo, probably from Persian birinj 'brass'. Bronze comes via French, from Italian bronzo, probably based on Persian birinj ‘brass’. Rhymes bonze, Johns, mod cons, Mons, St John's Definition of bronze in US English: bronze nounbrɑnzbränz 1A yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin. Example sentencesExamples Some of the more important metal alloys were gold, brass, bronze and pewter. A century ago, before stainless steel was widely available, winery equipment was often made of iron, copper, or bronze, an alloy of copper and tin. In modern times, bronze is an alloy of copper and any metal except zinc. Two of the oldest and most widely used of all alloys, bronze and brass, also contain copper. He described the ratios between the densities of gold, mercury, lead, silver, bronze, copper, brass, iron, and tin. Durable and strong, and a fraction of the price of wrought iron or bronze, cast iron was the ideal material to use for these trappings in response to the growing demand for cheaper ornament. Many were dug by early antiquarians, who sometimes found human remains with fine objects of gold, copper or bronze, jet, amber and other rare materials. In the past, burials of this date were considered rich if they contained more than a handful of objects, especially if one of the objects was of copper or bronze, or even gold. It can also be used on plastics and fiberglass and for polishing stainless steel, high carbon steel, or bronze. Apart from smithying, he would have known how to solder brass and bronze together, braze it as well for stronger joints and how to tin plate objects. First came copper, used in an unalloyed form, and then the superior alloy of copper and tin known as bronze. Plates can be made from a variety of metals, including zinc, copper, bronze and steel. These early metal users had not yet learned to alloy copper with tin to make bronze. Gold and copper were the first metals to be worked, followed shortly afterwards by bronze (an alloy of copper, tin, and lead). The ancestors of the modern Tatars were skilled in crafting jewelry of gold, silver, bronze, and copper. Handicraft items made of bronze, brass and copper by artisans from different places in the State were also displayed. After the War he brought up bronze, copper and brass from the island's many wrecks, at a time when these metals were in short supply. During the fifth century BC the Athenians introduced the third and more lowly currency metal: bronze, an alloy of copper and tin. Alloyed with tin, copper makes bronze, and combined with zinc, it makes brass. Her preferred metals are white gold, bronze and silver. 1.1 A work of sculpture or other object made of bronze. Example sentencesExamples He also loves sculptures, especially Western bronzes by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington. The show's presentation of his work ranges from the recently restored Bird Basket of 1939 to such tactile carvings as Reclining Figure: Holes and late, monumental bronzes. Featuring was an impressive and eclectic range of paintings, watercolours, pastels and bronzes of a consistently high quality. The piece recalls both an early Cubist still-life sculpture by Picasso and a Futurist bronze by Boccioni. Eighteen pieces range from early bronzes through mask-like aquatints and oil portraits of his sister Marguerite to a late and joyful cobalt-blue paper cut-out of a nude. Some of the bronzes are caryatidlike figures with limbs missing, and it is not at all clear whether they are intended as representations of amputees or references to the damage that time metes out to antique sculpture. Other media, such as pottery, ceramics, bronzes, sculptures and three-dimensional art, grace the gallery's floors. Charlemagne's great new palace at Aachen was built on classical Roman lines, embellished with sculptures and bronzes which would not have disgraced the Rome of the Caesars. His interests run the gamut - Old Master paintings, vintage posters, 19 th-century prints, abstracts, bronzes and stone sculpture from Zimbabwe. Klein Art Works recently exhibited the maquettes along with nine smaller bronzes, the tallest of which is 3 1/2 feet high. The book includes photographs of the caves and the temples where the paintings are situated, along with some bronzes and sculptures found therein. This major retrospective of British sculptor Henry Moore consists of some 120 works, including drawings, maquettes, plasters, wood and stone carvings, and large bronzes. With the assistance of Duveen, Frick formed a notable collection of Italian sculpture - bronzes by among others Pollaiuolo, Vecchietta, and Riccio, and a rare marble Bust of a Lady by Laurana. The highly sculptural bronzes denote the importance of the commission. Stamps depicting art shift from European oil paintings and heroic bronzes to ‘traditional crafts’ and, so in some sense, appear to validate ‘African Art’. The visit begins with the civilization of ancient India, with Maurya and Sunga terracottas, Mathura and Amaravati sculpture and medieval bronzes. The Tsais also donated two bronzes by Archipenko. They house an esthetic potpourri of modern painting and Ming sculpture, Luristan bronzes and mobiles by Alexander Calder, furniture by Marcel Breuer and reliefs by Jean Arp. Unseen counterproofs by Renoir, French Old Masters and bronzes from the Rijksmuseum are the highlights in New York and London this month They are punctuated by colourful abstract sculptures from the 1970s and the occasionally successful stylised bronzes of sinuous nude girls from later in that decade. 1.2 short for bronze medal Example sentencesExamples GB came home with Queally's gold, the team sprint silver, and bronzes for Yvonne McGregor in the women's 3km pursuit and the men's 4km pursuit team. He also earned a bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. The United States stand at the top of the medals table with 23 golds, 26 silvers and 17 bronzes, while China are second with 23 golds, 15 silvers and 12 bronzes. Despite weight groups being combined, they won six golds, two silvers and five bronzes - a haul that put them at the top of the medal table - at the West Yorkshire Closed Champion-ship at Knottingley. Westbrook is also the last U.S. fencer to win an Olympic medal: a bronze in 1984. It means he could even run up against his old partner Simon Archer, the Olympic bronze and Commonwealth gold medal winner at mixed doubles. Australia have been one of the great forces of world hockey but their previous Olympic appearances had yielded only three silvers and three bronzes. A string of unexpected Olympic successes - Greece has picked up two gold medals and a bronze so far - has helped to assuage national pride. Matthew Cowdrey completed his second set of Paralympic medals with a bronze in the final of the S9 50m freestyle. Halfway through the tenth day of the Olympics, China topped the medals table with 23 golds, 15 silvers and 11 bronzes - one gold ahead of the Americans. Currently, it is placed 10th overall with 10 golds, 12 silvers and 13 bronzes. Helen Burton won a gold and three bronzes and fellow powerlifters Andrew Hurst, two silvers and two bronzes, and Simon Waggett a silver and three bronzes. He has won three golds, two silvers and three bronzes at world championships in the past five years, along with an Olympic silver and Commonwealth gold. Cuba, which won the League title in 1998 and bagged five silvers and two bronzes in the 90s, and Poland were the surprise finalists in this edition. And that left Britain on 18 medals overall - three ahead of their total tally for the 1996 Games in Atlanta - with a split of six golds, six silvers and six bronzes. He won gold in the individual pursuit, silver in the team event and a superb bronze in the madison with Rob Hayles, who will also be present. The British boys built on their successes at the last Olympics with three golds, a silver and a bronze at the world track championships in Copenhagen last year. Australia - who are desperate to add a gold to their haul of three Olympic silvers and three bronzes - battled hard but came up against rock solid defence which only allowed one of their 14 goal attempts into the net. Two years after that, in Bormio, Italy, Miller won two golds, Daron Rahlves won a silver and a bronze and Julia Mancuso won two bronzes. Her individual medal collection included 3 bronzes: 100 and 80 hurdles in 1948 Games and 100 in 1952 Olympics. Synonyms bronze medal, third prize 1.3 A yellowish-brown color. rich, gleaming shades of bronze Example sentencesExamples His upper body was broad and muscular, a deep shade of bronze. Ocean looked for her light to be in front of her again, but her necklace was still around her neck, a dull shade of bronze. Look for them in such metallic colorations as bronze, gold and copper. There are 32 to collect, in various shades of cream, yellow, bronze, mauve and purple. And metallics - gold, bronze, silver, pewter and copper - move beyond evening wear. The heads would be coloured bronze, said Mr Malkin, who has smaller public works of art already under his belt. The woman's skin was the perfect shade of bronze; not too dark and not too pale. Her brown hair that was shaded bronze from the sun was hanging over her face, long and curly. Hours later my legs were a beautiful, rich shade of bronze - this colour is good. The world's best kicking coach is quite the most lovely shade of bronze. Thompson says the demand for dried flowers has grown, but the coloured arums - bronze, yellow and purple - are also very popular. They come in green, bronze, purple and varying shades of same. His clothes were of colours ever shifting between bronze, silver and gold and it seemed to shine without reflecting the sunlight. There were smudges of color in the face, bronze and lighter beige hues for skin-tones. Synonyms bronze-coloured, copper-coloured, copper, reddish-brown, chestnut, metallic brown, rust-coloured, rust, henna, tan verbbrɑnzbränz [with object]usually be bronzed 1Make (a person or part of the body) suntanned. Alison was bronzed by outdoor life Example sentencesExamples We courted traditionally and nervously over four hot days, as we bronzed away our Englishness on the beach. Just walking to and from the chow hall has allowed the sun to bronze all of the paler arms and faces. This slave stood tall, so tall, healthy and strong, skin bronzed beautifully under the hot sun. It's the portraits of little men claiming victory over themselves, bronzing in the sun before the city hall. The beach is deserted except for a young blonde woman, bronzed and perfectly toned, jogging on the wet white sand with a designer dog in tow. Looking fit and bronzed, Bertie was one of a number of politicians who have stayed in West Kerry recently. He's fair-skinned and gawky while I'm bronzed and supremely athletic. He was very tall and muscular and bronzed and lightly tattooed, with long blond hair that hung lankly down his back. But generally the beach is a place where social competition is reduced to fashions in swimsuits, surfboards and body bronzing. Physically, the perennially bronzed Berlusconi is less imposing. He was bronzed and his skin glistened with sweat. Two hours later we run into each other on the beach: I'm in a restaurant, fully clothed; he is bronzed, lying on a chaise on the sand, in pink bathing trunks. However, her greatest hold to the island may be her boyfriend, Donovan Miller, a ‘beautifully bronzed man with his Chinese mother's eyes.’ They smiled radiantly the whole time and looked lovely and bronzed in their white T-shirts and jeans. Before the Industrial Revolution and the invention of suntan lotions, bronzed bodies belonged to the working class. I've got Richard Glover on the radio, a gentle sea breeze blowing in from the south and the sun bronzing me up due west. Then I'll go to the Bahamas with a cigar and a martini, and ogle bronzed men with great abs. He is brown, not to say bronzed, tanned to the colour of nutmeg. But beneath the translucent ivory skin, he was rather bronzed, due to the long hours under the sun. ‘It's been a quiet summer,’ reflected one bronzed Tory, familiar from his TV appearances. Synonyms tanned, suntanned, sunburned, bronze, browned, brown, tan 1.1 Give a surface of bronze or something resembling bronze to. the doors were bronzed with sculpted reliefs Example sentencesExamples It was intended to be bronzed and auctioned for charity, but after it was made, the deal fell through, leaving Aden with a life-size sculpture of the Queen Mother on his hands. Someone at the VA hospital in Washington found the thing and had it bronzed after Cleland became famous. He had it bronzed and placed on a stand for me. I also concluded that it was pointless to try and convince anyone else of this; that those who had an opinion had already had it bronzed and placed on the mantel. Origin Mid 17th century (as a verb): from French bronze (noun), bronzer (verb), from Italian bronzo, probably from Persian birinj ‘brass’.
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