brass

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
2. isim Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass.
3. isim 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.

   “A few measures later, the brass comes in strong!”

4. isim Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.
5. isim The color of brass (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
6. isim High-ranking officers: the brass hats.

   “The brass are not going to like this.”

7. isim A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.

   “You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!”

8. isim Money.
9. isim Inferior composition.
10. sıfat Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
11. sıfat Of the color of brass.
12. sıfat Impertinent, bold: brazen.

    “At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough.”

13. sıfat Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.

    “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.”

14. sıfat Of inferior composition.

    “As Honest Plush Brannon then, Mr. Beery is one of San Francisco's fancier con men and hence more brass than plush”

15. fiil To coat with brass.
16. isim A prostitute.

    “Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.”

17. sıfat Brass monkey; cold.
18. isim 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.