Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Chemical symbol, Cu; atomic weight, 63.3. A metal distinguished from all others by its peculiar red Color.
- noun A vessel made of copper, particularly a large boiler; specifically, in the plural, the large kettles or boilers in a ship's galley for boiling food for the ship's company.
- noun Hence plural The mouth, throat, and stomach, as the receptacle and digester of food. See
hot coppers , below. - noun A copper coin; a penny; a cent; collectively, copper money; small change.
- noun In faro, a check, small disk like a coin, or other convenient object, used to copper with. See
copper , v., 2. - noun plural Copper butterflies. See
butterfly . - noun A reel used by wire-drawers to wind wire upon.
- Consisting of or resembling copper.
- To cover or sheathe with sheets of copper: as, to
copper a ship. - In faro, to place a copper (cent) or other token upon (a card), to indicate that the player wishes to bet against that card; bet against: as, to
copper a card; to copper a bet. - noun The plate of copper which contains or is intended to contain on its surface the engraved or etched design prepared for printing.
- To coat with copper: as, to
copper type; also, to color by means of a salt of copper: as, tocopper pickles, etc., in order to make them a bright-green color. - noun A policeman. See
cop .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun colloq. A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.
- noun A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
- noun (Naut.) the boilers in the galley for cooking.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
Chaffinch . - noun (Min.) See
Chalcocite . - noun (Min.) See
Covelline . - transitive verb To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang, law enforcement A
policeman . - noun uncountable a reddish-brown,
malleable ,ductile metallic element with highelectrical andthermal conductivity , symbol Cu, and atomic number 29. - noun countable Something made of copper.
- noun The
reddish -brown colour /color of copper. - noun countable A copper coin.
- noun UK, archaic A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire.
- adjective Made of copper.
- adjective Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
- verb To sheathe or coat with copper.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper
- noun a copper penny
- noun any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings
- noun 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
- verb coat with a layer of copper
- noun uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
Etymologies
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Examples
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The stills are generally made of naked copper; the acid works upon that metal, and forms with it the _acetate of copper_, or verdigrise, part of which passes with the whiskey.
The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain Anthony Boucherie
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Meanwhile the master of the house presents himself with a disturbed and gloomy countenance, and doubts much whether we can have any dinner to-day, because no one will sell anything, either for copper or silver; moreover hints darkly that they expect a _copper pronuniciamiento_ to-morrow; and observes that the shops are shut up.
Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843
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Precisely; and those which we prepared by dissolving copper in nitric acid, _nitrat of copper_, and so on.
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I shall not enter into examination of the prices for which he now proposes to sell his half-pence or what he calls his copper, by the pound; I have said enough of it in my former letter, and it hath likewise been considered by others.
Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889
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In the short term copper prices may drift lower as growth slows in America and Europe.
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43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ( "NI 43-101"), and does not comply with that standard; nor does the term copper equivalent grade comply with that standard.
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43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ( "NI 43-101"), and does not comply with that standard; nor does the term copper equivalent grade comply with that standard.
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The Queller Washlady quarter (lot #1906), in copper, is NGC certified ‘Proof-66′ with both ‘Cameo’ and [Original] ‘Red’ [Color] designations.
Queller Collection of Coin Patterns Sells for $8.36 Million (Part 1) : Coin Collecting News 2009
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Part of the reason for the strong imports in November and December was that long-term copper supply contracts are typically fulfilled toward the year-end.
China's Imports Slow But Remain Elevated Chuin-Wei Yap 2012
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The rally in copper futures slowed after the release of August U.S. new-home sales data, which were pegged higher but came in flat compared with July.
Copper Nears Two-Year High Tatyana Shumsky 2010
oroboros commented on the word copper
Cu.
Can be spelled with the Periodic Table of Elements symbols: CoPPEr
December 12, 2006
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(White collar boy, by Belle and Sebastian)
April 27, 2009