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"brass" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

brass sustantivo

sustantivo + brass
Kolokacji: 7
Tijuana Brass • Army brass • police brass • Pentagon brass • Navy brass • ...
brass + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 133
brass band • brass instrument • brass plate • brass plaque • brass ring • brass section • brass button • brass quintet • brass knuckle • ...
verbo + brass
Kolokacji: 5
make of brass • use brass • include brass • feature brass • make from brass
adjetivo + brass
Kolokacji: 19
top brass • military brass • polished brass • Canadian Brass • big brass • ...
frequent collocations
Kolokacji: 2
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 5
(1) top, high
Kolokacji: 2
(2) military, Canadian, old, beaten
Kolokacji: 4
(3) polished, gleaming, shiny, bright
Kolokacji: 4
1. polished brass = wypolerowany mosiądz polished brass
2. gleaming brass = błyszczący mosiądz gleaming brass
3. shiny brass = błyszczący mosiądz shiny brass
  • The movement revealed the shiny brass handle of a walking cane resting on the arm of his chair.
  • Can anything be done to keep the brass shiny?
  • You could see the shiny brass winking out at the edge of the cylinder.
  • The shiny brass had started life as an unfired .348 Winchester case.
  • "We're moving away from shiny brass, and more toward brushed stainless steel."
  • It takes a 75-watt bulb and is also made in shiny brass ($176).
  • It took me about ten minutes to do the job, and I had a piece of steel about two feet long with a shiny brass handle.
  • Remember, child, a fool abandons friends, and gives up silver for shiny brass.
  • She apologised, and at the same time asked him to enlighten her: what were those shiny brass stands for, half glass on the top?
  • The path to the door of the mansion was inlaid stone and the door handles shiny brass.
4. bright brass = jasny mosiądz bright brass
(4) big, monumental, low, heavy, small, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(5) solid, empty
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + brass
Kolokacji: 8
with brass • of brass • in brass • for brass • to brass • ...

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