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ochre
English
Etymology 1
From Old French ocre and its source Latin ?chra, from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”), from ????? (?khrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ????? (ochrós)).
Alternative forms
- ocher (chiefly US)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???k?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?k?/
- Rhymes: -??k?(r)
Noun
ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)
- An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
- (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
- (slang) Money, especially gold.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 6,[1]
- ‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 6,[1]
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Welsh: ocr
Translations
Adjective
ochre (not comparable)
- Having a yellow-orange colour.
- (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
Translations
Verb
ochre (third-person singular simple present ochres, present participle ochring or ochreing, simple past and past participle ochred)
- To cover or tint with ochre.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, 1943, Chapter 14, p. 229,[2]
- […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, 1943, Chapter 14, p. 229,[2]
See also
- ochrous / ochreous
- kokowai
- ruddle
- Appendix:Colors
Etymology 2
From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ??k??r??, but cf. Akan ?kr?mã and ?krakra (“broth”).
Noun
ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of okra.
References
- ochre at OneLook Dictionary Search
- ochre in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “okra, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004
Anagrams
- -chore, Roche, chore, ocher, roche
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bronze
English
Etymology
1730-40; from French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.); see it for more.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??nz/
- (US) IPA(key): /b??nz/
- Rhymes: -?nz
Noun
bronze (countable and uncountable, plural bronzes)
- (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
- (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
- (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
- A bronze medal.
- Boldness; impudence; brass.
Translations
Adjective
bronze (comparative more bronze, superlative most bronze)
- Made of bronze metal.
- Synonym: bronzen
- 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.
- Having a reddish-brown colour.
- (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bronze (third-person singular simple present bronzes, present participle bronzing, simple past and past participle bronzed)
- (transitive) To plate with bronze.
- (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
- 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137, [1]
- 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.
- 1961, Freya Stark, Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Chapter 8, p. 122,
- 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.
- 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137, [1]
- (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- 2006, Melissa Lassor, "Out of Darkness", page 124 in Watching Time
- His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
- 2006, Melissa Lassor, "Out of Darkness", page 124 in Watching Time
- (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
Translations
See also
Anagrams
- bonzer
Catalan
Alternative forms
- bronzo
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?b?on.z?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?b?on.ze/
- Rhymes: -onze
Noun
bronze m (plural bronzes)
- bronze (metal)
- bronze medal
Derived terms
- bronzejar-se
- bronzejat
- Edat del bronze
Further reading
- “bronze” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bronze” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “bronze” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bronze” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French bronze.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b????s?]
Noun
bronze c (singular definite bronzen, plural indefinite bronzer)
- (uncountable) bronze (element; colour)
- (countable) bronze (work of art made of bronze), bronze medal
Inflection
Further reading
- bronze on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
Etymology
From Italian bronzo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???z/
Noun
bronze m (plural bronzes)
- bronze (metal, work of art)
Derived terms
- âge de bronze
- couler un bronze
- médaille de bronze
- mouler un bronze
Descendants
- ? Persian: ????? (boronz)
- ? Portuguese: bronze
Verb
bronze
- first-person singular present indicative of bronzer
- third-person singular present indicative of bronzer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of bronzer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of bronzer
- second-person singular imperative of bronzer
Further reading
- “bronze” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- bornez
Greenlandic
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish bronze; see English bronze etymology.
Noun
bronze
- bronze
Occitan
Pronunciation
Noun
bronze m (plural bronzes)
- bronze
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French bronze, from Italian bronzo, either from Byzantine Greek ?????????? (bront?síon), presumably from ?????????? (Brent?sion, “Brindisi”), known for the manufacture of bronze; or ultimately from Persian ????? (birinj, biranj, “brass”) ~ ????? (piring, “copper”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?b?õ.zi/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /?b?õ.ze/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?b?õ.z?/
Noun
bronze m (plural bronzes)
- bronze
- skin tan
Related terms
- bronzear
- bronzeado
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