brass

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
2. A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
3. A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
4. A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments
5. Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
6. The colour of brass.
7. High-ranking officers.
8. (informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
9. (slang) Money.
10. Inferior composition.

Adj

1. Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
2. Of the colour of brass.
3. (informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.
4. (slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
5. Of inferior composition.

Verb

To coat with brass.

Adj

Brass monkey; cold.

Concepts

laiton

airain

cuivre

cuivre jaune

cuivres

douille

administration

couleur de laiton

toupet

plaque

organisation

galonnés

laiton cuivre jaunes

bronze

culot

en laiton

établissement

gallonés

gérance

joue

nerf

Synonymes

copper

bronze

plaque

brazen

cheek

governance

face

organisation

bell-metal

establishment

memorial tablet

boldness

nerve

brass instrument

administration

organization

brass section

governing body

horn

audacity

impudence

gold

governing

immodesty

insolence

lead

leaders

leadership

line

metal

🤘

noisemaker

pay up

plate

presumptuousness

puke

sap

saxhorn

scale

sheet

silver

slab

start

tile

tombac

tuba

wind

wind instrument

yellow metal

BR

bronze ware

tambac

tombak

government

management

br

flat solid

government activity

management personnel

brass-hat

aurichalcum

brazeness

copper ware

lump pyrite

arrogance

audaciousness

backing

baritone

blatancy

brasses

brass hat

brassy

bugle

bush

bushing

cartridge

cheekiness

cockiness

command

crust

duct

effrontery

flagstone

gall

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɹɑːs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: bras, bres

Hérité de ancien anglais: bræs

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: braspenninc

In summary

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.