different between brass vs hide

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b???s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?æs/
• Rhymes: -??s, -æs

Etymology 1

From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), origin uncertain. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *bras? (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small made fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”).

In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.

Noun

brass (usually uncountable, plural brasses)

1. (uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
   1. A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten
   2. Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass
2. (music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments
3. Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
4. (uncountable) The colour of brass.

6. (military, uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, metonymically) High-ranking officers.

7. (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.

8. (slang, dated) Money.
9. Inferior composition.

Derived terms

References

• “brass”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “brass, noun.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Translations

Adjective

brass (comparative more brass, superlative most brass)

1. Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
2. Of the colour of brass.
3. (informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.
   • 1869, Calendar of State Papers, domestic series, of the reign of Charles I, 1637-1638, edited by John Bruce, page 147:

     At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough.

   • 1996 May 24, 2:00 am, Sherman Simpson, Want license key for AGENT FOR WINDOWS95, alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent:

     Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.

   • 2000 Aug 18, 2:00 am, David Ryan, strangest bid retraction /illegal lottery NOT, rec.collecting.coins:

     After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.

   • 2000 Aug 19, 3:00 am, n4mwd, for RMB, alt.support.anxiety-panic:

     Try to keep in mind that not all of his converts are brass enough to challenge the benzo pushers in this group, [...]

4. (slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
   • 1888, Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage: written by themselves, volume 1, page 90:

     Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.

   • 1900, The Training of Seamen, published in The Saturday Review, 3 November 1900, volume 90, number 2349, page 556:

     I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]

   • 1908, The Smith Family, published in Punch, March 4 1908, bound in Punch vol. CXXXIV, page 168:

     Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.

   • 1929, Philippine Magazine, volume 6, page 27

     The padre in my neighborhood — Santa Ana — was having some kind of a fiesta, and had hired a very brass band. This band kept up its martial airs for hours and hours after I got home, with grand finales — or what each time I hoped would be the grand finale, every five minutes.

5. Of inferior composition.

Translations

Verb

brass (third-person singular simple present brasses, present participle brassing, simple past and past participle brassed)

1. (transitive) To coat with brass.

Derived terms

• brass up

Translations

Related terms

• braze
• brazen
• brazier

Etymology 2

By ellipsis from "brass nail," in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen").

Noun

brass (usually uncountable, plural brasses)

1. (countable, slang) A brass nail; a prostitute.
   • 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury 2011, p. 2:

     Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.

Adjective

brass

1. (slang) Brass monkey; cold.

See also

• althorn
• chalcography
• cornet
• euphonium
• flugelhorn
• French horn
• mellophone
• Muntz metal
• saxhorn
• sousaphone
• trombone
• trumpet
• tuba
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Brass”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “brass”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pras?/
• Rhymes: -as?

Noun

brass n (genitive singular brass, no plural)

1. (music, slang) brass

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• hyde (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?d, IPA^(key): /ha?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English h?dan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *h?dijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *h?dijan? (“to conceal”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd?- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

The verb was originally weak. In the King James Version of the Bible (1611) both hid and hidden are used for the past participle.

Verb

hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past hid, past participle hidden or (archaic) hid)

1. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.

   Synonyms: conceal, hide away, secrete

   Antonyms: disclose, expose, reveal, show, uncover

   • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.

2. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.

   Synonyms: go undercover, hide away, hide out, lie low

   Antonyms: reveal, show

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English h?d, of Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *h?di, from Proto-Germanic *h?diz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew-t- (“skin, hide”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). More at sky.

Noun

hide (plural hides)

2. (countable) The skin of an animal.

   Synonyms: pelt, skin

3. (obsolete or derogatory) The human skin.
4. (uncountable, informal, usually US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
   • 1957, Ayn Rand, Francisco d'Anconia's speech in Atlas Shrugged:

     The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of money and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide—as I think he will.

5. (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
6. (countable, architecture) A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.
7. (countable) A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past and past participle hided)

1. To beat with a whip made from hide.
   • 1891, Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown, Riding

     He ran last week, and he was hided, and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.

Etymology 3

From Middle English hide, from Old English h?d, h?d, h??ed, h??id (“a measure of land”), for earlier *h?wid (“the amount of land needed to support one family”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *h?waz, *h?w? (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to lie with, store, be familiar”). Related to Old English h?wisc (“hide of land, household”), Old English h?wan (“members of a family, household”). More at hewe, hind.

Noun

hide (plural hides)

1. (historical) A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents. [from 9th c.]
   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 488:

     The exact size of hides varied with soil quality, but each one generally encompassed 24 to 26 hectares.

   Synonym: carucate

Usage notes

The hide was originally intended to represent the amount of land farmed by a single household but was primarily connected to obligations owed (in England) to the Saxon and Norman kings, and thus varied greatly from place to place. Around the time of the Domesday Book under the Normans, the hide was usually but not always the land expected to produce £1 (1 Tower pound of sterling silver) in income over the year.

Hypernyms

• (100 hides) barony

Hyponyms

• (¹?₄ hide) See virgate
• (¹?₈ hide) See oxgang
• (¹?₁₆ hide) nook
• farundel

Anagrams

• Heid, Ihde, hied

Albanian

Alternative forms

• ide

Etymology

From Turkish i?de (“oleaster”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hid?/

Noun

hide f (indefinite plural hide, definite singular hidja, definite plural hidet)

1. (botany) jujube (Ziziphus jujuba)

Synonyms

• xinxife

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

from Old English h?d, h?d, h??ed, h??id (“a measure of land”), from earlier *h?wid (“the amount of land needed to support one family”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *h?waz, *h?w? (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), related to *h?wô (“household”).

Noun

hide (plural hides or hiden or hide)

1. hide (unit of land)

Alternative forms

• hyde

Descendants

• English: hide
• Scots: hyd, hid

References

• “h?de, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From hiden (“to hide”).

Noun

hide

1. concealment
2. hiding spot

Alternative forms

• hid, hyd, hyde

Descendants

• English: hide
• Scots: hide

References

• “h?d(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Noun

hide (plural hides or hiden)

1. Alternative form of hyde (“skin”)

Etymology 4

Noun

hide

1. Alternative form of hythe (“landing place, port”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hide (plural hides)

1. Alternative form of heed (“head”)

Etymology 6

Verb

hide (third-person singular simple present hideth, present participle hidende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hidde)

1. Alternative form of hiden (“to hide”)