copper1
noun ˈkɒpəˈkɑpər
1mass noun A red-brown metal, the chemical element of atomic number 29.
铜（符号： Cu ）Copper was the earliest metal to be used by humans, first by itself and then later alloyed with tin to form bronze. A ductile, easily worked metal, it is a very good conductor of heat and electricity and is used especially for electrical wiring
- Some of the material is pure, but much of it contained a little copper.
- Unlike aluminum, copper metal is fairly easy to obtain chemically from its ores.
- These were supplanted by blocks into which metal (usually copper or brass) was inlaid.
- Over the centuries the techniques of making all forms of metal ware: pewter, copper, brass and bronze, iron and steel, have varied.
- For example, tobacco plants can absorb heavy metals, mercury, copper, and lead.
- Jason Mernick is a California-based artist who works with metals such as copper and stainless steel.
- During the Bronze Age Ireland had a significant metal industry, and exported artefacts in bronze, copper, and gold to Britain and the Continent.
- Sweating flushes toxic metals, such as copper, lead and mercury, and removes excess salt, a benefit for those with mild hypertension.
- In modern times, bronze is an alloy of copper and any metal except zinc.
- Radiation, lead, and other heavy metals, such as copper and mercury, could hurt the baby.
- Coins are made using various alloys of metals like nickel, copper and zinc.
- In addition, fruit juices are rich in essential minerals like iron, copper, potassium, sodium, iodine and magnesium.
- How much did they allocate to the people whose land contained the copper?
- Men usually work with metals such as copper, brass, and aluminum to craft decorative plates, wall hangings, and utensils.
- And don't install dissimilar metals such as copper and steel in the same wall.
- It is high in vitamin A and the B group vitamins as well as copper, magnesium, potassium and phosphate.
- Creep is the slow flow of a non-ferric metal like copper, brass and lead under force.
- Laboratories in larger wineries may also be equipped to test for mineral elements such as iron, copper, sodium, and potassium.
- As my predicted recovery of the American economy gets speed, the world will buy more of our diamonds, gold, copper and uranium again.
- Silver fillings are actually made of a combination of metals including silver, tin, copper and mercury.
2coppersBritish Brown coins of low value made of copper or bronze.
〈英〉（小面值）铜币- Coniston folk are busily mining their pockets for coppers in a bid to save one million pennies to install disabled facilities at the village's public toilet.
- He produced three shillings and a few coppers for the purchase of spirits saying that was all he had in the world.
- The boy replies, ‘I never handed money into a man's hand in my life, nor I'm not going to do it now,’ and he flings his purse of coppers over a hedge into the woods.
- Alexa gave her half of the coppers and one silver and stored the pouch into the lower side pocket of her khakis.
- Abbey skipped up to the house, a silver bit and four coppers jingling in her apron pocket.
- If you have jars or bottles which contain coppers or foreign coins at home you could donate them to the project.
- Villagers will also be searching for their loose coppers to make up a mile of coins.
- She had fifteen coppers, twelve silvers, and fifty gold pieces.
- I am about to try and persuade mum to take me to Sainsburys to change up all my billions of coppers for actual usable cash.
- Fifty some coppers met her questing fingers, seven more added once her count was complete.
- Bess is paid ten coppers a week, and is provided with room and board.
- Taking the price off the clothes you're wearing there, now that should come up to about two silvers and five coppers.
- Crystal stared miserable at her polystyrene cup, which contained only a few coppers and one ten pence piece.
- You find a space and trip along to the ticket machine, only to discover that you have come out with only a ten pound note and 26p in coppers.
- The manager of the shop arrived to find the lock smashed, and the money, all silver and coppers, all gone.
- They also took £120 in coppers his family had been saving to spend on holiday.
- Myra had taken in lodgers as a means of increasing her income and had started taking in laundry to make a few more coppers to help feed her growing family.
- Amazingly, people started to put money in the box - just coppers and five pence pieces, but still more than we'd expected.
- She stopped by a fruit stand and got two apples for three copper pieces.
- The entrance fee was one shilling, and we had to borrow several pails to hold the coppers and other coins that were paid in.
3dated A large copper or iron container for boiling laundry.
- This last device was used to move clothes up and down in boiling soapy water, contained in a gas-heated copper.
- There was an area with a concrete floor, a tin bath, a copper, a sink and a cold tap.
- The fire lit under the copper of cold water brought it to boiling point for the white washing.
- A purpose-built brew-house stands next to the pub, complete with a boiling copper and fermentor.
4mass noun A reddish-brown colour like that of copper.
紫铜色she had copper-coloured hair- Two rules to remember: Keep lighter shades on top, and choose complementary colors like warm golds and coppers.
- McKinnon has an explosion of curly, deep copper coloured hair around features that can only be called elfin.
- All of the trees were gradually becoming painted with the familiar crimsons, coppers, golds, and bronzes.
- There weren't many people in my school with copper coloured hair.
- Striking copper coloured bark on the stems and trunk peels off in large pieces to reveal lighter new bark below making it irresistible to stop and touch.
- At this stage tie in a length of copper or fine red coloured wire.
- In other colourful news, I've just had some reddish / copper lowlights put in my hair.
- Those orange copper eyes were penetrating his mind, telling him to stop where he was and face the creature.
- Ellis says the copper colour is typical of an English style ale.
- Under the large hood two copper eyes studied what was currently becoming clear to their vision.
- The camera switches across to the other side of my mouth and focuses on a huge filling that gleams two distinct colours, copper and silver.
- Leaves are changing color to intense reds and pinks, vivid oranges and yellows, and more subdued browns and coppers as they fall.
- It then rises to show an identical backdrop, now stained with the colors of archaic art: coppers and golds, turquoises and deep blues, flashes of vermilion.
- There was quite a pile of copper coloured hair in a ring around the chair when she finished.
- We stopped a few times to photograph some of these views, especially the valley oases overshadowed by the colourful mountains, streaked with amber, brown, copper and deep purple.
- You will see copper complexions and the lighter shades of pale.
- Looking closely, there's a hint of copper colouring in the larger scratch.
- As to the colour, fine copper slices are placed in diagonal sections through the back and sides.
- Her hair was curling and glossy and copper coloured.
- The popular colours are beige, cream, brown and copper which are ideal for showing off the intricate work.
5with modifier A small butterfly with bright reddish-brown wings.
灰蝶，铜色蝶Genus Lycaena, family Lycaenidae: many species
verb ˈkɒpəˈkɑpər
[with object]Cover or coat (something) with copper.
用铜包；给…镀铜some iron hulls were sheathed with wood and then copperedcoppered pins- Everything was made of gold, coppered from age.
- Drake watched it from atop the watchman's truck, against the pole that held the beat-up and coppered bell.
Origin
Old English copor, coper (related to Dutch koper and German Kupfer), based on late Latin cuprum, from Latin cyprium aes 'Cyprus metal' (so named because Cyprus was the chief source).
The verb cop (early 18th century), meaning ‘to catch’, comes from a northern English dialect word cap meaning ‘to capture or arrest’. This probably goes back to Latin capere, ‘to take or seize’. So a copper was a catcher, which is why it became an informal word for a police officer in the 1840s. Apprehended villains have been saying ‘ it's a fair cop!’ since the 1880s. See also capableCopper, the reddish-brown metal, comes from Latin cyprium aes ‘Cyprus metal’. The island of Cyprus was the Romans' main source of copper.
Rhymes
bopper, cropper, Dopper, dropper, hopper, improper, Joppa, poppa, popper, proper, shopper, stopper, swapper, topper, whopper
copper2
noun ˈkɒpəˈkɑpər
British informal A police officer.
〈英，非正式〉警察- I told him if he tried to contact me I'd get an intervention order and he ranted and raved a bit but with the two coppers - sorry the two police officers - there he didn't dare do anything.
- Another police car pulled up and another couple of coppers ambled out.
- Unless perhaps you were a copper going undercover.
- It's the police force, the good coppers working for us.
- Search warrants in hand, the coppers nicked some computers, video game manuals, Blockbuster movie rental cards, DVDs, a microphone and a power cord.
- And even against the increasing daylight we could make out that they were uniformed coppers, and that each of them was holding a push bike!
- He's 43, been a copper for 25 years and has a pedigree of detective work, having covered ganglands, drug trafficking and extortion.
- This is a proper copper who has busted cocaine rings in the past.
- It sounds too much like a cop-out from the coppers, because the problem is so large that it takes up valuable police resources.
- Since Monday I have been counting the number of coppers, cop cars, dog handling units, malicious arrests and good-humoured stop-and-searches I've spotted in Hackney.
- ‘So that's what he's calling himself now,’ said the junior copper, a mere Detective Sergeant.
- Local communities want to see regular patrols - even though it is estimated that only once in every eight years will a copper actually pass a crime in commission.
- Amazingly, the police had not bothered to place a copper outside the scene of an attempted murder.
- Here are the latest thoughts from Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Hastings, who presides over the coppers manning the checkpoints.
- He must have been visiting someone there, a copper probably.
- North Yorkshire's top copper joined the police in 1975.
- He knew the house belonged to a copper because there was a uniform hanging up.
- How do you know the coppers won't know you weren't there?
- It was just my luck that at that moment a police van with nine or 10 coppers in it drove by.
- He added: ‘He arrived in an ambulance, was taken in by two coppers and left later in a police van.’
Origin
Mid 19th century: from cop1 + -er1.
copper1
nounˈkäpərˈkɑpər
1A red-brown metal, the chemical element of atomic number 29.
铜（符号： Cu ）Copper was the earliest metal to be used by humans, first by itself and then later alloyed with tin to form bronze. A ductile, easily worked metal, it is a very good conductor of heat and electricity and is used especially for electrical wiring
- Some of the material is pure, but much of it contained a little copper.
- During the Bronze Age Ireland had a significant metal industry, and exported artefacts in bronze, copper, and gold to Britain and the Continent.
- And don't install dissimilar metals such as copper and steel in the same wall.
- How much did they allocate to the people whose land contained the copper?
- In addition, fruit juices are rich in essential minerals like iron, copper, potassium, sodium, iodine and magnesium.
- Jason Mernick is a California-based artist who works with metals such as copper and stainless steel.
- Radiation, lead, and other heavy metals, such as copper and mercury, could hurt the baby.
- Over the centuries the techniques of making all forms of metal ware: pewter, copper, brass and bronze, iron and steel, have varied.
- Sweating flushes toxic metals, such as copper, lead and mercury, and removes excess salt, a benefit for those with mild hypertension.
- Laboratories in larger wineries may also be equipped to test for mineral elements such as iron, copper, sodium, and potassium.
- For example, tobacco plants can absorb heavy metals, mercury, copper, and lead.
- Silver fillings are actually made of a combination of metals including silver, tin, copper and mercury.
- Creep is the slow flow of a non-ferric metal like copper, brass and lead under force.
- Men usually work with metals such as copper, brass, and aluminum to craft decorative plates, wall hangings, and utensils.
- It is high in vitamin A and the B group vitamins as well as copper, magnesium, potassium and phosphate.
- These were supplanted by blocks into which metal (usually copper or brass) was inlaid.
- As my predicted recovery of the American economy gets speed, the world will buy more of our diamonds, gold, copper and uranium again.
- Unlike aluminum, copper metal is fairly easy to obtain chemically from its ores.
- Coins are made using various alloys of metals like nickel, copper and zinc.
- In modern times, bronze is an alloy of copper and any metal except zinc.
2British A copper coin, especially a penny.
you could hire a raft for a few coppers- The boy replies, ‘I never handed money into a man's hand in my life, nor I'm not going to do it now,’ and he flings his purse of coppers over a hedge into the woods.
- Taking the price off the clothes you're wearing there, now that should come up to about two silvers and five coppers.
- I am about to try and persuade mum to take me to Sainsburys to change up all my billions of coppers for actual usable cash.
- The manager of the shop arrived to find the lock smashed, and the money, all silver and coppers, all gone.
- Bess is paid ten coppers a week, and is provided with room and board.
- Amazingly, people started to put money in the box - just coppers and five pence pieces, but still more than we'd expected.
- The entrance fee was one shilling, and we had to borrow several pails to hold the coppers and other coins that were paid in.
- Coniston folk are busily mining their pockets for coppers in a bid to save one million pennies to install disabled facilities at the village's public toilet.
- Villagers will also be searching for their loose coppers to make up a mile of coins.
- Fifty some coppers met her questing fingers, seven more added once her count was complete.
- She stopped by a fruit stand and got two apples for three copper pieces.
- Myra had taken in lodgers as a means of increasing her income and had started taking in laundry to make a few more coppers to help feed her growing family.
- Abbey skipped up to the house, a silver bit and four coppers jingling in her apron pocket.
- He produced three shillings and a few coppers for the purchase of spirits saying that was all he had in the world.
- You find a space and trip along to the ticket machine, only to discover that you have come out with only a ten pound note and 26p in coppers.
- Crystal stared miserable at her polystyrene cup, which contained only a few coppers and one ten pence piece.
- She had fifteen coppers, twelve silvers, and fifty gold pieces.
- If you have jars or bottles which contain coppers or foreign coins at home you could donate them to the project.
- Alexa gave her half of the coppers and one silver and stored the pouch into the lower side pocket of her khakis.
- They also took £120 in coppers his family had been saving to spend on holiday.
3A reddish-brown color like that of copper.
紫铜色- Those orange copper eyes were penetrating his mind, telling him to stop where he was and face the creature.
- Under the large hood two copper eyes studied what was currently becoming clear to their vision.
- In other colourful news, I've just had some reddish / copper lowlights put in my hair.
- There weren't many people in my school with copper coloured hair.
- At this stage tie in a length of copper or fine red coloured wire.
- Striking copper coloured bark on the stems and trunk peels off in large pieces to reveal lighter new bark below making it irresistible to stop and touch.
- Looking closely, there's a hint of copper colouring in the larger scratch.
- It then rises to show an identical backdrop, now stained with the colors of archaic art: coppers and golds, turquoises and deep blues, flashes of vermilion.
- All of the trees were gradually becoming painted with the familiar crimsons, coppers, golds, and bronzes.
- As to the colour, fine copper slices are placed in diagonal sections through the back and sides.
- The popular colours are beige, cream, brown and copper which are ideal for showing off the intricate work.
- Ellis says the copper colour is typical of an English style ale.
- Two rules to remember: Keep lighter shades on top, and choose complementary colors like warm golds and coppers.
- Her hair was curling and glossy and copper coloured.
- You will see copper complexions and the lighter shades of pale.
- Leaves are changing color to intense reds and pinks, vivid oranges and yellows, and more subdued browns and coppers as they fall.
- We stopped a few times to photograph some of these views, especially the valley oases overshadowed by the colourful mountains, streaked with amber, brown, copper and deep purple.
- The camera switches across to the other side of my mouth and focuses on a huge filling that gleams two distinct colours, copper and silver.
- There was quite a pile of copper coloured hair in a ring around the chair when she finished.
- McKinnon has an explosion of curly, deep copper coloured hair around features that can only be called elfin.
4with modifier A small butterfly of North America and Eurasia. The upper surface of its wings is typically bright reddish-orange or purple.
Genus Lycaena, family Lycaenidae: numerous species, including the American copper (L. phlaeas) of the eastern US and arctic North America
verbˈkäpərˈkɑpər
[with object]Cover or coat (something) with copper.
用铜包；给…镀铜- Everything was made of gold, coppered from age.
- Drake watched it from atop the watchman's truck, against the pole that held the beat-up and coppered bell.
Origin
Old English copor, coper (related to Dutch koper and German Kupfer), based on late Latin cuprum, from Latin cyprium aes ‘Cyprus metal’ (so named because Cyprus was the chief source).
copper2
nounˈkäpərˈkɑpər
British informal A police officer.
〈英，非正式〉警察- He must have been visiting someone there, a copper probably.
- This is a proper copper who has busted cocaine rings in the past.
- Amazingly, the police had not bothered to place a copper outside the scene of an attempted murder.
- ‘So that's what he's calling himself now,’ said the junior copper, a mere Detective Sergeant.
- North Yorkshire's top copper joined the police in 1975.
- I told him if he tried to contact me I'd get an intervention order and he ranted and raved a bit but with the two coppers - sorry the two police officers - there he didn't dare do anything.
- Unless perhaps you were a copper going undercover.
- And even against the increasing daylight we could make out that they were uniformed coppers, and that each of them was holding a push bike!
- It sounds too much like a cop-out from the coppers, because the problem is so large that it takes up valuable police resources.
- He knew the house belonged to a copper because there was a uniform hanging up.
- Here are the latest thoughts from Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Hastings, who presides over the coppers manning the checkpoints.
- He's 43, been a copper for 25 years and has a pedigree of detective work, having covered ganglands, drug trafficking and extortion.
- It's the police force, the good coppers working for us.
- Another police car pulled up and another couple of coppers ambled out.
- Since Monday I have been counting the number of coppers, cop cars, dog handling units, malicious arrests and good-humoured stop-and-searches I've spotted in Hackney.
- He added: ‘He arrived in an ambulance, was taken in by two coppers and left later in a police van.’
- How do you know the coppers won't know you weren't there?
- It was just my luck that at that moment a police van with nine or 10 coppers in it drove by.
- Search warrants in hand, the coppers nicked some computers, video game manuals, Blockbuster movie rental cards, DVDs, a microphone and a power cord.
- Local communities want to see regular patrols - even though it is estimated that only once in every eight years will a copper actually pass a crime in commission.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from cop + -er.