Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An alloy of copper with 10 percent tin.
- n. Metal used for guns.
- n. A dark gray.
Wiktionary
- n. an alloy of 88% copper, 10% tin and 2% zinc, originally used for making guns
- n. a dark grey colour
WordNet 3.0
- n. a type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion (especially corrosion by sea water)
Examples
“More recently, I stumbled across this insane beauty at the designers market and became mildly obsessed with it – especially discovering that it came in gunmetal silver.”
“Binz, whose characteristic task was to chain and unchain the hind leg of the old "gunmetal" elephant, Phedra, who bossed her sire and the little Cloud herd, as much with the flap of an ear as anything else ....”
“- While the old PS3 was released in black, white, even "gunmetal", the PS3 Slim is so far available in one colour: black.”
“I caught up with Justin James, a long drink of water, elegantly attired in gunmetal silk suit and high heels.”
The Huffington Post: Regina Weinreich: Fashion Week: Night Out with The Blonds
“The color palette was soft and boasted such autumnal colors as gunmetal, copper, army green and soft grays.”
“Down cold gunmetal grey stairs and onto the street.”
“Also available in black and gunmetal. $128 at Coach.com.”
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“Designer Nicole Miller departed from her usual fashion staples: bold geometric patterns, updated little black dresses and her classic gunmetal dresses to show off looks that might have well suited Janis Joplin in her hey day.”
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“Here, one character turns up dressed in a "suit of gunmetal silk and a simple bracelet of platinum on either wrist".”
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“But he persevered and Shine duly appeared, with a cover of a glowing lovely young Eurasian woman who reaches toward the reader with a beguiling half-smile ... but lacks nipples and is surrounded by grim gunmetal-gray skyscrapers and smokestacks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gunmetal’.
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WF - nominal compounds (concrete)
foodstuff, banknote, crankshaft, earphone, fibreboard, fishplate, forklift, glassware, guardrail, handicraft, headband, kitchenware and 181 more...
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TECH - metals and alloys
embrittle, braze, nickel alloy, metallize, Inconel, eutectic, metalize, vapor pressure, corrosion-resistant, alloy, stainless steel, neutron flux and 262 more...
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Colour Me Happy
violet, lavender, rose, eggshell, mauve, fuschia, grey, azure, almond, sienna, purple, periwinkle and 71 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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snarkout's Words
agenbite, scandent, vulpine, ratel, corvid, magpie, meline, musteline, ecdysiast, waxwing, abecedarian, guillotine and 111 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, G
grocer, gabanergic, gabardine, gabbro, gaffe, gneiss, grapple, grosgrain, grommet, gratify, gossamer, goofy and 194 more...
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words (perhaps to live by)
empyrean, festoon, ravening, seraphic, transcendental, inertia, bedim, calyx, gunmetal, ardor, carmine, pavonine and 15 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Words of the Dying Earth
Tales of the Dying Earth is a 2002 anthology volume featuring four novels by Jack Vance: The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous.
Throughou...deodar, deodand, pelgrane, leucomorph, blister-bush, russet, black burdock, gunmetal, spatterlight, carrack, concertina, terce and 280 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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My favorite words
A list of words that invoke brain-gasms or create lovely imagery in my head.
sea, ivory, older, chest, bird, mermaid, autumn, ship, winter, circus, atomic, forest and 21 more...
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