What's the difference between brass and cornet?

Brass


Definition:

  • (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".

Cornet


Definition:

  • (n.) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
  • (n.) A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.
  • (n.) A certain organ stop or register.
  • (n.) A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
  • (n.) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
  • (n.) The standard of such a troop.
  • (n.) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.
  • (n.) A headdress
  • (n.) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
  • (n.) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
  • (n.) See Coronet, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She held her service game to go 2-1 up and then broke to 30 after Cornet double-faulted.
  • (2) By this he presumably meant a cornet, which is at least an instrument, albeit not one that appears anywhere on Polar Bear’s album.
  • (3) Cornet, the 25th seed, had never beaten a top-20 player at a grand slam in 13 attempts.
  • (4) Chelsea overcome nerves to top group and move into last 16 at Porto’s expense Read more Although Paco Alcácer drew a save from Anthony Lopes, Lyon were the better side, allowed to travel a long way when they came forward, and it was not a huge surprise when Cornet scored.
  • (5) – but the tournament is not over for me.” In the last 16 Cornet will play the exciting 20-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who reached the French Open semi-final earlier this month.
  • (6) She is clearly capable of bouncing back but Mouratoglou, speaking on Monday, less than 24 hours after her shock defeat by Alizé Cornet of France , said the American was not her usual competitive self.
  • (7) But while Cornet’s nerves must have been break-dancing around her body she didn’t show it.
  • (8) The broad similis group of Cornet & Chateau (1971), under which these 10 species of Synhelea were originally assembled, is not only maintained but expanded by a further 11 species.
  • (9) Three came and went before Cornet finally got the break and after that she never looked back.
  • (10) She double-faulted to give Cornet two breakpoints only to recover before, at 1-1, deuce, the umpire called them off.
  • (11) Grass is Williams’ domain, whereas Cornet had won just 10 of her 25 matches on the surface.
  • (12) But at 5-3 Cornet held her nerve and sealed the set by smashing a short ball away.
  • (13) Cornet won the first game of the second set and, having rediscovered her rhythm and confidence, then broke to go 2-0.
  • (14) The authors indicate the presence in People's Republic of Congo of the five following sandflies: Sergentomyia decipiens Theodor, 1931; Sergentomyia dissimillima Abonnenc, 1972; Sergentomyia tauffliebi Abonnenc and Cornet, 1971; Sergentomyia wansoni Parrot, 1938 and Sergentomyia squamipleuris Newstead, 1912.
  • (15) For months the paternity of little George (named after a cornet-playing gamekeeper) was in question.
  • (16) On one occasion tonsillitis turned out to be a magnificent slimming technique until I discovered 99 flake cornets were quite soothing.
  • (17) Not so long ago Cornet, a 24-year-old from Nice, hated playing on grass.
  • (18) After the break because of the rain I was so slow,” Cornet said.
  • (19) Cornet thumped her racquet bag in frustration but Williams’ winners kept coming.
  • (20) It was a surprise that followed hot on the heels of Williams’ exit at the hands of the unfancied Alizé Cornet and there was more drama to come for the world No1 when she had to pull out of her third-round doubles match with sister Venus.

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