(n.) An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.
(n.) A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.
(n.) Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
(n.) Impudence; a brazen face.
(n.) Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
(n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.
(n.) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Corbyn to complain to MoD about army chief's ‘political interference’ Read more Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn’s political mis-steps over the past 10 days have allowed his views to be dismissed as flaky and irresponsible – even where he is right, as in his warnings about kneejerk responses to terrorist attacks and, indeed, in his Armistice Day strictures about the requirement for the top brass to stay out of politics .
(2) Of the various metals and alloys tested for use in its construction, brass produced the smallest NMR artifact with minimal magnification.
(3) "For the top brass in French football, the issue is settled: there are too many blacks, too many Arabs, and not enough white players in French football," the website said.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rodriguez, who has been recovering from offseason hip surgery and who stands to lose more than $35m on the remaining portion of his contract should the reported suspension be carried out, has a team of lawyers working to battle the office of the commissioner on any penalties, despite MLBPA union head Michael Weiner reaching out to baseball's brass to try to hammer out a late deal on Saturday, an offer that was rejected by the sport's ruling body.
(5) The increase in retention was greater for brass than for dentine.
(6) A brass probe cooled to--79 degrees C and applied directly to infected corneas for six seconds resulted in an immediate 99.9% reduction in bacteria.
(7) The musician group was comprised of 31 brass instrument players, and 31 reed instrument or flute players.
(8) The pathologically increased enzyme activity might well permit diagnostic conclusions concerning the intensity and stage of destruction of the retina by brass poisoning.
(9) He’ll face competition from Manchester City though with Pep Guardiola shunning a wealth of Barcelona and Bayern Munich stars and identifying the England man as his top transfer target during a meeting with City’s top brass in, er, Amsterdam.
(10) wonders Chris Taylor, who one suspects doesn't have two brass bawbies to rub together.
(11) You're as likely to see the entire brass section of the Halle Orchestra running across the road at the interval for a swift pint as you are a room full of drunken retired policemen.
(12) The colonization rates were polyvinyl chloride, 70; copper, 31; and brass, 25%.
(13) Players of string instruments had longer careers than players of woodwind and brass instruments.
(14) All of my photographs are taken on a 4in by 5in wood and brass Gandolfi camera .
(15) Our guide extinguished the light and began to open the shutter, rotating the lens with a brass handle.
(16) Z was measured between brass sleeve electrodes within the end conduits of the pouch.
(17) Speaking as a factory member I had remembered many brass band concerts we enjoyed during lunchtimes in the Oxford car factory where I worked for 14 years.
(18) A plastic catheter is introduced into the trachea through a brass tube fitted on to the laryngoscope blade and oxygen is injected intermittently through the catheter to provide ventilation.
(19) Over a 0.009 inch flexible tip steel wire a diamond-coated brass burr fastened to a flexible drive shaft that rotates and tracks was advanced.
(20) A "news" report on Chris Morris's satirical Brass Eye once summed up a particularly unpleasant sight as resembling "Dante meets Bosch in a crack lounge in hell".
Braze
Definition:
(v. i.) To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.
(v. i.) To harden.
(v. t.) To cover or ornament with brass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bond strength of the specimens brazed with the non-precious alloy was largely unaffected.
(2) A total of 69 male subjects occupationally exposed to cadmium fumes in a factory producing silver-cadmium-copper alloys for brazing, were subjected to lung function tests, including ventilation (FVC and FEV1), residual volume (RV) and alveolar-capillary diffusion capacity (TLCO and KCO).
(3) Tensile strength, 0.2% proof stress, and percentage elongation of the welded bars were measured and compared with the corresponding values for the titanium bars as delivered and with those of brazed type-3 gold alloy bars of similar dimensions.
(4) Brazed specimens of a high-gold alloy were used as a reference.
(5) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Abdul El Saidi, 56, is Brompton’s brazing manager.
(6) A braze alloy is used to join the sections of the sample together and the resulting sample is stable during subsequent grinding, dimpling, and milling operations.
(7) A method for preparing cross-section transmission electron microscopy specimens from alumina and partially stabilized zirconia braze joints is described.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brazing in the Brompton factory.
(9) Get acquainted with archaic-sounding kitchen verbs: brewing, fermenting, brazing, curing.
(10) The action of local corrosion cells around the brazed joint is considered, and it is concluded that the two materials seem well suited for implant supraconstructions, provided that brazing the silver-palladium can be avoided.
(11) When I joined the company I used to get emails from all over the world from people saying, ‘I want to come and see the way you braze,’” the 54-year-old says.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A workman brazes components of a folding bike in the Brompton Bicycle factory.
(13) However, the multi-component devices, which were joined with silver- and copper-based brazing alloys were more cytotoxic than the single-component devices.
(14) The amounts of metal released from the brazed arch bar were 140-600 times higher than those released from the solid arch bar.
(15) Addition of low melting temperature elements gallium and indium reduced flow temperature in some cases but produced brittleness in the brazing alloy.
(16) The braze training manager at Brompton Bicycle is one of a dying breed of craftsmen in Britain whoturn the copper scars knitting together the steel frame into things of beauty.
(17) The nature of the fracture in the brazed joint is described, and corrosion identified as the mechanism of degradation of the joint.
(18) The technique relies on masking a mechanically dimpled 3-mm disc in order to avoid preferential thinning of the metallic braze filler alloy during ion milling.
(19) The carbon composite and the silver-palladium per se did not corrode, whereas a silver-palladium specimen brazed with the recommended brazing alloy corroded unmistakably, yielding copper-containing corrosion products.
(20) It is recommended that appropriate grades of silver brazing alloy be used in the future, and that the mechanical integrity of medical devices joined with silver braze be regularly checked to anticipate failure in use.