ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BRONZE
From French, from Italian bronzo, perhaps ultimately from Latin Brundisium Brindisi, famed for its bronze.
CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BRONZE
PRESENT
Present
I bronze
you bronze
he/she/it bronzes
we bronze
you bronze
they bronze
Present continuous
I am bronzing
you are bronzing
he/she/it is bronzing
we are bronzing
you are bronzing
they are bronzing
Present perfect
I have bronzed
you have bronzed
he/she/it has bronzed
we have bronzed
you have bronzed
they have bronzed
Present perfect continuous
I have been bronzing
you have been bronzing
he/she/it has been bronzing
we have been bronzing
you have been bronzing
they have been bronzing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I bronzed
you bronzed
he/she/it bronzed
we bronzed
you bronzed
they bronzed
Past continuous
I was bronzing
you were bronzing
he/she/it was bronzing
we were bronzing
you were bronzing
they were bronzing
Past perfect
I had bronzed
you had bronzed
he/she/it had bronzed
we had bronzed
you had bronzed
they had bronzed
Past perfect continuous
I had been bronzing
you had been bronzing
he/she/it had been bronzing
we had been bronzing
you had been bronzing
they had been bronzing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will bronze
you will bronze
he/she/it will bronze
we will bronze
you will bronze
they will bronze
Future continuous
I will be bronzing
you will be bronzing
he/she/it will be bronzing
we will be bronzing
you will be bronzing
they will be bronzing
Future perfect
I will have bronzed
you will have bronzed
he/she/it will have bronzed
we will have bronzed
you will have bronzed
they will have bronzed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been bronzing
you will have been bronzing
he/she/it will have been bronzing
we will have been bronzing
you will have been bronzing
they will have been bronzing
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would bronze
you would bronze
he/she/it would bronze
we would bronze
you would bronze
they would bronze
Conditional continuous
I would be bronzing
you would be bronzing
he/she/it would be bronzing
we would be bronzing
you would be bronzing
they would be bronzing
Conditional perfect
I would have bronze
you would have bronze
he/she/it would have bronze
we would have bronze
you would have bronze
they would have bronze
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been bronzing
you would have been bronzing
he/she/it would have been bronzing
we would have been bronzing
you would have been bronzing
they would have been bronzing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you bronze
we let´s bronze
you bronze
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
bronzing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 QUOTES WITH «BRONZE»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
bronze.
No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.
The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.
As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.
I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby.
I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRONZE»
Discover the use of
bronze in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bronze and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Rise Of
Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and ...
Presents a significant new interpretation of the social transformation in Bronze Age Europe.
Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas B. Larsson, 2005
2
The End of the
Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the ...
In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations - earthquakes, migrations, drought, systems collapse - and proposes a military one instead.
This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin—a fierce, hotheaded young man bent on revenging his father’s death by forcing the Romans from his land of Israel.
Elizabeth George Speare, 1997
The cultural history of the region emerges through a series of thematic chapters that treat settlement, economy, crafts, exchange and foreign contact, and religion and burial customs are all discussed in this book.
Oliver Dickinson, Oliver Thomas Pilkington Kirwan Dickinson, 1994
5
The
Bronze Age of Southeast Asia
This book addresses the controversy over the origins of the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. Charles Higham provides a systematic and regional presentation of the current evidence.
6
The Making of
Bronze Age Eurasia
This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of Western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record.
7
Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the
Bronze Age Levant
This book brings together for the first time the entire corpus of evidence pertaining to Bronze Age seafaring and will be of special value to archaeologists, maritime historians, philologists, and Bronze Age textual scholars.
8
The Oxford Handbook of the European
Bronze Age
The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place.
Anthony Harding, Harry Fokkens, 2013
9
European Societies in the
Bronze Age
A survey of the Bronze Age in Europe, c. 2500 to 750 BC, for students and specialists.
10
Greek
Bronze Statuary: From the Beginnings Through the Fifth ...
Carol C. Mattusch enriches our knowledge of this beloved but elusive art form in a comprehensive study of the style and techniques of bronze statuary during the Archaic (6th century B.C.) and Classical (5th century B.C.) periods.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BRONZE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
bronze is used in the context of the following news items.
England's Lucy Bronze sets sights on Euro 2017 after Women's …
Anybody would forgive Lucy Bronze a touch of jetlag-induced fuzziness but, straight after alighting from England's flight home at Heathrow, the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Latest from Iran
The development came a day after Maryam Karami snatched the first bronze medal for Iran in the women's single sculls with a time of 8 minutes ... «Press TV, Jul 15»
101-year-old WWII vet honored with Silver, Bronze stars 70 years …
Horace Appleby, a 101-year-old veteran, is presented a Silver Star and Bronze Star by Rep. Marcy Kaptur last week as his family looks on. «Fox News, Jul 15»
Carolina Bronze receives $10000 grant
SEAGROVE — Carolina Bronze Sculpture, North Carolina's only commercial fine art bronze casting foundry, has received an Incumbent ... «Asheboro Courier Tribune, Jul 15»
Amarillo brings home bronze
Texas Advantage Volleyball Amarillo 16 Royal came up huge last week earning a bronze medal at the 2015 USA Volleyball Junior Girls' ... «Amarillo.com, Jul 15»
Cumberland veteran honored with Bronze Star Medal
FUNSKTOWN, Md. -- On Monday, Vietnam War veteran and former Army specialist Michael Parker finally got the medal for the Bronze Star ... «WHAG, Jul 15»
New Thoughts on the Bronze Age Diet in the Iberian Peninsula
López-Costas and her team think that the Bronze Age diet in northwestern Iberia may have included millet earlier than had been previously ... «Archaeology, Jul 15»
Charles Paddock bronze statue unveiled
Charles Paddock is remembered in bronze, unveiled to the public July 4 ... the life-sized bronze statue that was unveiled to the public on July 4. «Paso Robles Daily News, Jul 15»
Ravenswood Village receives Bronze National Quality Award
RAVENSWOOD - Ravenswood Village, a Genesis HealthCare skilled nursing center located at 200 S. Ritchie Avenue in Ravenswood, has ... «Jackson County Newspapers, Jul 15»
Salem resident earns INDIEFAB Bronze Book of the Year
Salem resident George W. Jackson, under the pen name G. William Weatherly, recently won the bronze medal in the war and military fiction ... «Norwich Bulletin, Jul 15»
