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Bold vs Bronze - What's the difference?

bold | bronze |

As nouns the difference between bold and bronze

is that bold is (obsolete) a dwelling; habitation; building while bronze is bronze.

As an adjective bold

is courageous, daring.

As a verb bold

is to make (a font or some text) bold.

bold

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .

    Adjective

    (boldness) (er)
  • Courageous, daring.
  • *, chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  • (of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
  • Presumptuous.
  • * 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.
  • even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
    Synonyms
    * (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a font or some text) bold.
  • (obsolete) To make bold or daring.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To become bold.
  • (Webster 1913) ----

    bronze

    English

    (wikipedia bronze)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A natural or man-made alloy of copper, usually of tin, but also with one or more other metals.
  • (countable, and, uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
  • (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
  • A bronze medal.
  • Boldness; impudence; brass.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Embrown'd with native bronze , lo! Henley stands.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of bronze metal.
  • *
  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
  • Having a reddish-brown colour.
  • (lb) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
  • Derived terms

    (terms derived from bronze) * arsenical bronze * bell bronze * Bronze Age * bronze medal * Bronze Star * bronzite * phosphor bronze

    Verb

    (bronz)
  • To plate with bronze.
  • My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
  • To color bronze.
  • (of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
  • * 2006 , Melissa Lassor, "Out of Darkness", page 124 in Watching Time
  • His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
  • To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead

    See also

    * Brindisi * Cycladic * Hallstatt * Helladic * Minoan * penny *

    Anagrams

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