(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".
Chrome
Definition:
(n.) Same as Chromium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings are relevant to the effects of wear of all designs of cobalt-chrome alloy prostheses.
(2) This week Google launched Chrome, a new web browser , opening up another front in its battle with Microsoft.
(3) These were substantiated by measuring the optical activities of the two EDR isomers which were extracted from a mixture of racemic all-trans EDR and a smaller amount of aporetinochrome following exposure to orange light (greater than 530 nm) that irradiates EDR(+)-chrome selectively.
(4) To test the hypothesis, chrome-cobalt beads, ranging in size from 200 to 700 microns, in differing configurations were placed adjacent to a femoral prosthesis that had been implanted into a cadaveric specimen.
(5) It also means HTC can gain Google certification for its Android devices allowing them to come pre-loaded with access to Google Play and its 850,000 standard Android apps, as well as Google’s Android app suite, which includes Chrome, Gmail, Calendar, Maps and Search.
(6) 14 (38%) of 37 chrome platers in 17 chrome electroplating factories surveyed had occupational contact dermatitis, chrome ulcers, or both.
(7) A chrome-cobalt master cast was specially designed and 500 impressions were made and poured, resulting in 900 casts.
(8) The castings were obtained with a nickel-chrome alloy and investing was performed with phosphate bonded investment.
(9) An experimental review of the Feulgen and gallocyanine-chrome-alum stains for quantitative cytophotometry of DNA in tissue sections yielded information on the preparation and staining of tissue for quantitative absorbance microspectrophotometry.
(10) Cobalt-chrome-molybdenum alloys are widely used in orthopaedic implants.
(11) Microscopic retentions got through electrolytic bonding, oxidizations, metallizations or simply sand blastings are obtained these seem to affect not only nickel chrome alloys but also to noble alloys, similar to those of type IV.
(12) When indicated and correctly executed, the 12-gauge chrome wire and the split palate stressbreakers have proved to be practical adjuncts to our treatment armamentarium.
(13) The character George Bowling bites into a frankfurter he has bought in an milk bar decorated in chrome and mirrors: "The thing burst in my mouth like a rotten pear.
(14) Sequential treatment with 5 X Denhardt's solution followed by gelatin-chrome alum resulted in enhanced specificity of labelling and excellent chromosome morphology, as well as reduced levels of background.
(15) Despite positive staining reactions with the presumptive neurosecretory stains, paraldehyde-fuchsin and chrome-alum-hematoxylin, ultrastructurally these glands exhibit many non-neural characteristics.
(16) A case is reported in which an epithelioid sarcoma developed in an apparently benign enchondroma or bone infarct at the site of a chrome-cobalt total knee replacement.
(17) Gurlitt's name is on a plaque next to the entrance, in black on white, underneath one of the chrome doorbells.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chrome monsters Edmonton is a city where the automobile is king – the core neighbourhoods all have ample parking from years of tearing down heritage buildings following the second world war.
(19) The steel wire (Tru-Chrome) showed the steepest curve, followed by TMA, Nitinol, some superelastic wires, Twistflex and Respond as well as Pentacat.
(20) One of the diastereomeric pigments which contained the all-trans EDR with a negative circular dichroic (CD) band, hereafter called EDR(-)-chrome, has its visible absorption maximum around 438 nm, while the other pigment, called EDR(+)-chrome, has its maximum at 464 nm.