different between sunburn vs bronze

English

Etymology

From Middle English *sunne burnen, *sonne brennen, *sunne brennen (suggested by derivatives sonne brennynge, sunne brennynge (“sunburn”, literally “sun-burning”) and sunne brente (“sunburnt”), equivalent to sun +? burn. Compare West Frisian sinnebrân (“sunburn”), Dutch zonnebrand (“sunburn”), German Sonnenbrand (“sunburn”), Swedish solbränna (“sunburn”), Icelandic sólbruni (“sunburn”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nb?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?nb??n/

Noun

sunburn (countable and uncountable, plural sunburns)

1. A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
2. A burn on the tissue of crop plants or their fruits (especially if they are rich in water like tomatoes, grapes, apples, gooseberries) caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.

   Synonym: sunscald

Related terms

• sunburnt
• windburn

Translations

Verb

sunburn (third-person singular simple present sunburns, present participle sunburning, simple past and past participle sunburned)

1. (intransitive) To receive a sunburn.
   • c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: D.N. and T.C., 1678, Act V, Scene 2, p. 64,^[1]

     I have brought

     Your grace a Salamanders skin, to keep you

     From sun-burning.

   • 1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, No. 81, 28 December, 1724, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, Volume 2, p. 199,^[2]

     […] there is a a Country, in the World, call’d Turkey; where Women are secur’d against the Danger of Sun-burning, by being kept out of the open Air, and lock’d up, like other Jewels, in Places where no Mischief can reach ’em.
2. (transitive) To burn or tan (someone's skin) by the sun; to allow (a part of one's body) to become sunburnt.
   • 1668, John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, London: H. Herringman, Act II, p. 11,^[3]

     My Aunt charg’d me not to pull off my Glove for fear of Sun-burning my hand.

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Penguin, 1999, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 171,^[4]

     As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert […]

   • 1989, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, New York: Harper and Row, Chapter 7, p. 95,^[5]

     “Oh shoot, I’ve sunburned the top half of my boobs,” she said, frowning down her chest.

Translations

Anagrams

• unburns

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)

1. (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
2. (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.

3. (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
4. A bronze medal.

5. Boldness; impudence; brass.

Translations

Adjective

bronze (comparative more bronze, superlative most bronze)

1. 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.

2. Having a reddish-brown colour.
3. (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)

1. (transitive) To plate with bronze.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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)

1. bronze (metal)
2. 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)

1. (uncountable) bronze (element; colour)
2. (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)

1. 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

1. first-person singular present indicative of bronzer
2. third-person singular present indicative of bronzer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bronzer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of bronzer
5. 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

1. bronze

Occitan

Pronunciation

Noun

bronze m (plural bronzes)

1. 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)

1. bronze
2. skin tan

Related terms

• bronzear
• bronzeado