brass
- IPA[bras]
美式
- a yellow alloy of copper and zinc；a decorative object made of brass
noun: brass, plural noun: brasses
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- 1. a yellow alloy of copper and zinc a brass plate on the door
- ▪ a decorative object made of brass shining brasses stood on the mantelpiece
- ▪ a memorial, typically medieval, consisting of a flat piece of inscribed brass, laid in the floor or set into the wall of a church.
- ▪ a brass block or die used for stamping a design on a book binding.
- ▪ money they wanted to spend their newly acquired brass
- ▪ brass wind instruments (including trumpet, horn, trombone) forming a band or a section of an orchestra the brass and percussion were consistently too loud
- ▪ people in authority or of high military rank.
- ▪ a person's hardness or effrontery he was the only one who had the brass to show his face
- trimmed or banded with brass fittings.
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- the action of rubbing heelball or chalk over paper laid on an engraved brass to reproduce its ...
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- the action of rubbing crayon or chalk over paper laid on an engraved brass to reproduce its design.
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- acting without shame or embarrassment: they are being brass-necked in applying to continue the licence the brass-necked fraudster
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- a European moth that has green to gold wing patches with a metallic lustre.
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- a wind instrument, such as a trumpet or trombone, typically made of brass.
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- used in phrases to refer to extremely cold weather: it's brass monkey weather tonight
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- a group of musicians playing brass instruments and sometimes also percussion: brass band music
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