Definition of Copper

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Copper

A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.

A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.

A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.

the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.

To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

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Copper Quotations

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."
Terry Pratchett

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.
Hermann von Helmholtz

The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.
Eric Bristow

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.
Catherine Helen Spence

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Thomas Hood

Copper Translations

copper in Danish is kobber
copper in Dutch is koperen, roodkoperen
copper in Finnish is kupari
copper in French is cuivre
copper in German is Kupfer
copper in Italian is rame
copper in Norwegian is kopper
copper in Portuguese is cobre
copper in Spanish is cobre
copper in Swedish is kopparmynt, koppar

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