Bronze vs. Brown

Bronzenoun

(uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.

Brownnoun

A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

‘The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.’;

Bronzenoun

A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.

Brownnoun

One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.

Bronzenoun

(countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.

Brownnoun

(uncountable) Black tar heroin.

Bronzenoun

A bronze medal.

Brownnoun

A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.

Bronzenoun

Boldness; impudence; brass.

Brownadjective

Having a brown colour.

Bronzeadjective

Made of bronze metal.

Brownadjective

(obsolete) Gloomy.

Bronzeadjective

Having a reddish-brown colour.

Brownadjective

(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

Bronzeadjective

(of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.

Brownverb

(intransitive) To become brown.

‘Fry the onions until they brown.’;

Bronzeverb

(transitive) To plate with bronze.

‘My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.’;

Brownverb

To cook something until it becomes brown.

‘Brown the onions in a large frying pan.’;

Bronzeverb

(transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.

Brownverb

To tan.

‘Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.’;

Bronzeverb

To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.

Brownverb

(transitive) To make brown or dusky.

Bronzeverb

(transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

Brownverb

(transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.

Bronzenoun

An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

Brownverb

To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

‘the browning of America’;

Bronzenoun

A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.

‘A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.’;

Brownadjective

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

‘Cheeks brown as the oak leaves.’;

Bronzenoun

A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

Brownnoun

A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

Bronzenoun

Boldness; impudence; "brass."

‘Imbrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.’;

Brownverb

To make brown or dusky.

‘A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.’;

Bronzeverb

To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.

‘The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger.’;

Brownverb

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

Bronzeverb

To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

‘The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead.’;

Brownverb

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

Bronzenoun

an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin

Brownverb

To become brown.

Bronzenoun

a sculpture made of bronze

Brownnoun

an orange of low brightness and saturation

Bronzeverb

give the color and appearance of bronze to something;

‘bronze baby shoes’;

Brownnoun

Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

Bronzeverb

get a tan, from wind or sun

Brownnoun

abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)

Bronzeadjective

of the color of bronze

Brownnoun

a university in Rhode Island

Bronzeadjective

made from or consisting of bronze

Brownverb

fry in a pan until it changes color;

‘brown the meat in the pan’;

Bronzenoun

a yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin

‘the Minoans made large numbers of statuettes in ivory and bronze’; ‘a bronze statue’;

Brownadjective

of a color similar to that of wood or earth

Bronzenoun

a sculpture or other object made of bronze

‘on the black bookcase were three exquisite bronzes’;

Brownadjective

of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil

‘she had warm brown eyes’; ‘an old brown coat’;

Bronzenoun

short for bronze medal

Brownadjective

(of bread) light brown in colour and typically made with unbleached or unrefined wholemeal flour

‘a slice of brown toast with low fat spread’;

Bronzenoun

a yellowish-brown colour

‘rich, gleaming shades of bronze’;

Brownadjective

dark-skinned or suntanned

‘his face was brown from the sun’;

Bronzeverb

make (a person or part of the body) suntanned

‘Alison was bronzed by outdoor life’;

Brownadjective

relating or belonging to a human group characterized as having relatively dark-coloured skin (chiefly used of peoples of ancestry other than European or African)

‘I interviewed 60 mostly black and brown leaders around our nation’;

Bronzeverb

give (something) a surface of bronze or something resembling bronze

‘the doors were bronzed with sculpted reliefs’;

Brownadjective

another term for coloured (sense 3 of the adjective)

Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than copper alone, or have other useful properties, such as strength, ductility, or machinability.

Brownnoun

brown colour or pigment

‘the brown of his eyes’; ‘the print is rich with velvety browns’; ‘a pair of boots in brown’;

Brownnoun

brown clothes or material

‘a woman all in brown’;

Brownnoun

a brown thing, in particular the brown ball in snooker.

Brownnoun

a satyrid butterfly, which typically has brown wings with small eyespots.

Brownnoun

another term for coloured (sense 2 of the noun)

Brownverb

make or become brown, typically by cooking

‘grill the pizza until the cheese has browned’; ‘a skillet in which food has been browned’;

Brown

Brown is a composite color. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue.