brass
n. 黄铜, 黄铜制品 a. 黄铜的, 铜管乐器的 v. 镀以黄铜, 支付
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A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
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A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass.
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A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.
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不可数 音乐A few measures later, the brass comes in strong!
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Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.
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The color of brass (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
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High-ranking officers: the brass hats.
不可数 政治 军事The brass are not going to like this.
The brass is not going to like this.
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A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
非正式 不可数You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!
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Money.
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Inferior composition.
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A prostitute.
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Synonym of brace, a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and Portuguese braça, also French brasse.
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To coat with brass.
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Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
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Of the color of brass.
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Impertinent, bold: brazen.
非正式Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.
After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.
Try to keep in mind that not all of his converts are brass enough to challenge the benzo pushers in this group, …
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Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
俚语Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.
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Of inferior composition.
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Brass monkey; cold.
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下位词 10
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词源
From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”). In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.
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