Plastic vs Bronze - What's the difference?

plastic | bronze |

As nouns the difference between plastic and bronze

is that plastic is plastic while bronze is bronze.

As an adjective plastic

is plastic.

plastic

English

Alternative forms

* plastick (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.

(archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.

A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics' are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine ' plastic , too.}}

Any similar synthetic material, not necessarily thermoplastic.

(colloquial) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.

(slang) Fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* bioplastic * plastic explosive

Adjective

(en adjective)

Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.

* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 103:

the rage betook itself at last to certain missile weapons; which, though from their plastic nature they threatened neither the loss of life or of limb, were, however, sufficiently dreadful to a well-dressed lady.

* 1898 , Journal of Microscopy (page 256)

Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.

* 2012 , Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review , issue 399:

while the broad pattern of connections between brain regions is similar in every healthy human brain, their details – their number, size and strength – are thought to underpin our individuality, as synapses are ‘plastic ’, shaped by experience.

(dated) Creative, formative.

* Prior

the plastic hand of the Creator

* Alexander Pope

See plastic Nature working to his end.

(biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.

Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.

Made of plastic.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz.

* {{quote-book, title=The pirate's dilemma: how youth culture is reinventing capitalism

, page=, author=Matt James Mason, year=2008, passage=Frustrated by a globalized music industry force-feeding them plastic pop music, hackers, remixers, and activists began to mobilize...}}

(slang) Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.

Synonyms

* malleable, flexible, pliant * ersatz * fake

Antonyms

* elastic * genuine

Derived terms

* plastic beauty * plastician * plasticity * plasticizer * plasticine * plastic surgery * thermoplastic

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

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