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lithium
English
Etymology
From New Latin lithium, from lithia (in reference to Ancient Greek ????? (líthos, “stone”)) + -ium.
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?th'??m, IPA(key): /?l??i.?m/
Noun
lithium (countable and uncountable, plural lithiums)
- (uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3. It is a soft, silvery metal.
- 2019, George Monbiot, Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out in the Guardian.
- Already, beautiful places are being wrecked by an electric vehicle resource rush. Lithium mining, for example, is now poisoning rivers and depleting groundwater from Tibet to Bolivia.
- 2019, George Monbiot, Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out in the Guardian.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
- (pharmacology, uncountable) Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
- A lithium battery.
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References
- Lithium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table
Czech
Etymology
From Latin lithium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?li?t?jum]
- Hyphenation: li?thium
Noun
lithium n
- lithium
Declension
Danish
Noun
lithium
- Alternative spelling of litium
- 2015, Peter C. Gøtzsche, Dødelig psykiatri og organiseret fornægtelse, Art People ?ISBN
- Lithium er meget giftigt, og dets serumkoncentration skal overvåges.
- 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse ?ISBN, page 16
- Batteriet i pacemakeren indeholder i de fleste tilfælde grundstoffet lithium.
- 1862, Tidsskrift for physik og chemi samt disse videnskabers anvendelse, page 6
- Idet nu Kalium , Lithium og Barium efterhaanden forflygtigedes, forsvandt deres Farvelinier i den angivne Rækkefølge , ...
- 2015, Peter C. Gøtzsche, Dødelig psykiatri og organiseret fornægtelse, Art People ?ISBN
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Swedish litium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?li.ti??m/
- Hyphenation: li?thi?um
Noun
lithium n (uncountable)
- lithium [from mid-19th c.]
Derived terms
- lithiumcarbonaat
- lithiumtherapie
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.tj?m/
Noun
lithium m (uncountable)
- lithium
Derived terms
- tétrahydruroaluminate de lithium
Further reading
- “lithium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
lithium (uncountable)
- lithium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (líthos, “stone”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?li.t?i.um/, [?l?t??i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?li.ti.um/, [?li?t?ium]
Noun
lithium n (genitive lithi?); second declension
- (New Latin, chemistry) lithium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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copper
English
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) enPR: k?p'?, IPA(key): /?k?p.?/
- (UK) enPR: k?p'?, IPA(key): /?k?p.?/
- (US) enPR: kä'p?r, IPA(key): /?k?.p?/
- Rhymes: -?p?(r)
Etymology 1
From Middle English coper, from Old English coper, copor (“copper”), from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), contraction of Latin aes Cyprium (literally “Cyprian brass”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (Kúpros, “Cyprus”). Cognate with Dutch koper (“copper”), German Kupfer (“copper”), Icelandic kopar (“copper”).
Noun
copper (countable and uncountable, plural coppers)
- (uncountable) A reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
- The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
- (countable, dated) Any of various specialized items that are made of copper, where the use of copper is either traditional or vital to the function of the item.
- 1885, General Rules and Regulations Applicable to All Employes of the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway Company:
- Coppers are generally good for a year, if the battery is carefully attended […]
- 1890, The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 22, p. 83:
- Some coppers come already tinned. I didn't buy mine, so they surely were not tinned.
- 1907, "Instructions for the Care of Callaud Batteries" in Journal of the Telegraph, vol. XL:
- Coppers are not consumed, and their life depends largely on the manner in which they are used.
- (countable) A copper coin, typically of a small denomination, such as a penny.
- "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. […]."
- (Britain, Australia, dated) A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.
- 1797, Dyeing, article in Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig (editors), Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 6, Part 1 p.207:
- When the water in the copper boils, the arsenic and tartar, well pounded, is put into it, and kept boiling till the liquor is reduced to about half.
- 2000, Christopher Christie, The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century, p. 266:
- The wet laundry's stove had a long vent in the ceiling which helped to release the steam from the coppers in which the clothes and bed linen were boiled.
- 1797, Dyeing, article in Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig (editors), Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 6, Part 1 p.207:
- 1885, General Rules and Regulations Applicable to All Employes of the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway Company:
- (entomology) Any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera Lycaena and Paralucia.
Synonyms
- (colour): chestnut, russet
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Adjective
copper (comparative more copper, superlative most copper)
- Made of copper.
- Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
- All in a hot and copper sky,
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Synonyms
- (made of copper): coppern (archaic)
- (having the colour/color of copper): coppery
Translations
Verb
copper (third-person singular simple present coppers, present participle coppering, simple past and past participle coppered)
- To sheathe or coat with copper.
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Etymology 2
From cop (“to take, capture, seize”) +? -er (“agent suffix”).
Noun
copper (plural coppers)
- (slang, law enforcement) A police officer.
Synonyms
- (policeman): police officer, constable, cop, see also Thesaurus:police officer
Derived terms
- bent copper
Related terms
- cop
Translations
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Copper”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
- "copper" in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
Middle English
Noun
copper
- Alternative form of coper
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- what copper does to the body
- what copper pennies are worth money
- what copper looks like
- what copper made out of
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- what copper pennies are valuable
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