Reeds vs Brass - What's the difference?
reeds | brass |
(uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
(countable, music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound.
Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
(uncountable) The colour of brass.
(uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, military) High-ranking officers.
(uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude.
(slang, dated) Money.
Inferior composition.
Of the colour of brass.
(informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.
* 1996 May 24, 2:00 am, Sherman Simpson, Want license key for AGENT FOR WINDOWS95 , alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent:
* 2000 Aug 18, 2:00 am, David Ryan, strangest bid retraction /illegal lottery NOT , rec.collecting.coins:
* 2000 Aug 19, 3:00 am, n4mwd, for RMB , alt.support.anxiety-panic:
(slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments .
* 1888 , Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage: written by themselves , volume 1, page 90:
* 1900 , The Training of Seamen'', published in ''The Saturday Review , 3 November 1900, volume 90, number 2349, page 556:
* 1908 , The Smith Family'', published in ''Punch'', March 4 1908, bound in ''Punch vol. CXXXIV , page 168:
* 1937 , Blair Niles, A journey in time: Peruvian pageant , page 166:
* Philippine Magazine , volume 6, page 27: (rfdate)
Of inferior composition.
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(uncountable, slang) Brass in pocket; money.
(countable, slang) A brass nail; a prostitute.
(slang) Brass monkey; cold.
As nouns the difference between reeds and brass
is that reeds is plural of lang=en while brass is a metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.As an adjective brass is
of the colour of brass.brass
English
(wikipedia brass)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- The brass are not going to like this.
- The brass is not going to like this.
- You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!
Derived terms
* bold as brass * brass balls * brass band * brassboard * brass hat * brass in pocket * brass instrument * brass knuckles * brass monkey * brass nail * brass neck * brass rat * brass ring * brass section * brass tacks * brassbound * brass-collar * brassed off * brass-rubbing * brassware * brasswind * brassy * calamine brass * high brass * get down to brass tacks * nonbrass * not have a brass farthing * top brassAdjective
(en adjective)- Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.
- After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.
- Try to keep in mind that not all of his converts are brass enough to challenge the benzo pushers in this group, [...]
- Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.
- I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]
- Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.
- There are soldiers, policemen, priests and friars, as well as a motley mass of women, children, babies and dogs, and upon special occasions a very brass band.
- The padre in my neighborhood — Santa Ana — was having some kind of a fiesta, and had hired a very brass band. This band kept up its martial airs for hours and hours after I got home, with grand finales — or what each time I hoped would be the grand finale, every five minutes.