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Definition: BRONZING |
BRONZINGNoun1. A material for bronzing. 2. The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Bronze |
Date "BRONZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Defect characterized by a change in the colour of the surface of the film giving the appearance of aged bronze(ISO 4618/2-1984, 5. 1). The apparent colour depends on the angles of wieving and illumination. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A bronze-like appearance on textile material caused by precipitation of the dye during the dyeing process. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | An operation performed in a medium and at a suitable temperature to cover the clean ferrous surface with a bronze-coloured oxide film. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BRONZING |
| English words defined with "BRONZING": mosaic gold. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BRONZING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "BRONZING" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BRONZING": bronzing gel ♦ bronzing powder. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
baby shoes bronzing | 54 | bed bronzing | 3 |
bronzing | 36 | bronzing hand | 3 |
shoes bronzing | 36 | bed bronzing tanning | 3 |
body bronzing | 22 | bronzing spray | 3 |
bronzing powder | 14 | bronzing company | 3 |
american bronzing company | 8 | bronzing tanning lotion | 2 |
bronzing lotion | 7 | skin bronzing | 2 |
bronzing foot | 6 | australian bronzing glaze gold golden | 2 |
australian bronzing gold lotion | 6 | bronzing make up | 2 |
bronzing gel | 5 | bronzing clarins duo | 2 |
american bronzing | 4 | airbrush bronzing | 2 |
bronzing guerlain powder | 4 | bronzing dalmatian syndrome | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "BRONZING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 镀'" (Bronzed). (various references) | |
French | bronzage. (various references) | |
German | bronzierend, bräunung (Browning). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bronzzal bevonás, bronzozás. (various references) | |
Korean | 청동색으로 만". (various references) | |
Manx | ruyaghey, dhonaghey (bronze), cur ooha er. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onzingbray.(various references) | |
Romanian | bronzare. (various references) | |
Spanish | pavón (peacock butterfly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BRONZING": bronzings. (additional references) | |
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"BRONZING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonzanigo, Bronwin, bronzen, brunain, Gronskin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-n-n-o-r-z" | |
-2 letters: boning, boring, inborn, orbing, robing, zoning. | |
-3 letters: bingo, boing, bring, giron, groin, robin. | |
-4 letters: bong, born, brig, brin, brio, girn, giro, grin, inro, iron, noir, nori, ring, zing, zori. | |
-5 letters: big, bin, bio, biz, bog, bro, gib, gin, gob, gor, inn, ion, nib, nob, nog, nor, obi, orb, rib, rig, rin, rob, zig, zin. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-n-n-o-r-z" | |
+1 letter: bronzings. | |
+3 letters: carbonizing. | |
+5 letters: decarbonizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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