Copper vs. Zinc

Coppernoun

(uncountable) A reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.

Zincnoun

A chemical element (symbol Zn) with an atomic number of 30, a slightly brittle blue-silvery metal.

Coppernoun

(countable) Something made of copper.

Zincnoun

(countable) A single atom of this element.

Coppernoun

The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.

Zincnoun

A zinc countertop.

Coppernoun

(countable) A copper coin.

Zincverb

(rare) To electroplate with zinc.

Coppernoun

A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.

‘Mum would heat the water in a copper in the kitchen and transfer it to the tin bath.’; ‘I explain that socks can’t be boiled up in the copper with the sheets and towels or they shrink.’;

Zincverb

(rare) To coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide.

Coppernoun

A police officer.

Zincnoun

An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic number 30. Atomic weight 65.38.

Copperadjective

Made of copper.

Zincverb

To coat with zinc; to galvanize.

Copperadjective

Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.

Zincnoun

a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

Copperverb

To sheathe or coat with copper.

Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. Zinc is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a silvery-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed.

Coppernoun

A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.

Coppernoun

A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.

‘My friends filled my pockets with coppers.’;

Coppernoun

A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.

Coppernoun

the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.

‘All in a hot and copper sky.’;

Copperverb

To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

Coppernoun

a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor

Coppernoun

a copper penny

Coppernoun

uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

Coppernoun

a reddish brown the color of polished copper

Coppernoun

any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having copper colored wings

Copperverb

coat with a layer of copper

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from Latin: cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity.