Copper - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a copper penny
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman (syn: bull, cop, fuzz, pig)
- a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper
- any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings
verb
Extra examples
He had only a few coppers in his pocket.
We mint coins out of copper.
...sometimes shipbuilders sheathe a ship's bottom with copper for extra protection from barnacles and other threats...
The composition of brass includes copper and zinc.
When no more silver deposits on the copper, the operation is completed.
The workman brought me the medal in gold, twenty-three in copper, and the die.
The best English copper is accounted less tough and ductile than Swedish copper.
He dished the Greek shield from a single sheet of copper and pieced the rim.
They searched his pockets, and found all his copper was base.
Copper is a very conductive metal.
Copper has been mined here since the sixteenth century.
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.
The island has been seriously polluted by a copper mine.
Word forms
singular: copper
plural: coppers
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