Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
- (musiikki)brass instruments
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (countable, uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
- (historical, obsolete) 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.
- (countable, slang) A prostitute.
- A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
- Fittings, utensils or other items made of brass.
- (music) 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.
- Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.
- (uncountable) The color of brass.
- (military, business or other organizations, uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, metonymic) High-ranking officers: the brass hats.
- (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
- (slang, dated, Potteries) Money.
- Inferior composition.
Adjektiivi
- (slang) Brass monkey; cold.
- Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
- Of the color of brass.
- (informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.
- (slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
- Of inferior composition.
Verbi
- (transitive) To coat with brass.
Esimerkit
- The brass are not going to like this.
- The brass is not going to like this.
- You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!
- 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, [...]
- Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.
- I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]
- 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.
- There are soldiers, policemen, priests and friars, as well as a motley mass of women, children, babies and dogs, and upon special occasions a very brass band.
- The padre in my neighborhood — Santa Ana — was having some kind of a fiesta, and had hired a very brass band. This band kept up its martial airs for hours and hours after I got home, with grand finales — or what each time I hoped would be the grand finale, every five minutes.
- As Honest Plush Brannon then, Mr. Beery is one of San Francisco's fancier con men and hence more brass than plush
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | brasses |
| Komparatiivi | more brass |
| Superlatiivi | most brass |