bronze

«bronze» in Mova's school dictionary: a hard brown-gold metal made by mixing copper and tin — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (bronze; a bronze, bronzes); adjective (bronze)

meaning for a pupil

1) Bronze is a hard brown-gold metal made by mixing copper and tin. tree →

2) A bronze is a medal for third place. tree →

3) A statue or object made of bronze. tree →

4) Bronze is a reddish-brown colour, like a suntan. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history (the Bronze Age), science (alloys), sport (bronze medal for third), art (bronze statues).

examples

• She won bronze in the swimming race. tree →
• Bronze is made from copper and tin. tree →
• People in the Bronze Age made tools from bronze. tree →
• A bronze statue stands in the park. tree →
• Gold, silver and bronze go to first, second and third. tree →
• His skin looked bronze after the beach holiday. tree →
• “A bronze ring that is hidden under a cushion.” tree →

note

In science, bronze is an alloy (a mix of metals), not a pure element. In rankings: bronze = third place. Do not confuse with brass (copper and zinc).

In the corpora

• Silver darkens, copper goes dull brown and then green, and bronze statues in the park grow green streaks.
• Metals ring when struck because they pass vibrations on well; big bells are usually made of bronze.
• Ranked games give you a badge — bronze, silver, gold — that goes up when you win and down when you lose.
• Bronze is copper mixed with tin, and Cornish tin was traded across Europe for thousands of years.
• People learned to melt copper from rocks, and later mixed copper with tin to make bronze, which is harder.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bronze» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.