to cast a statue in bronze

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• statue — n. 1) to carve; sculpt, sculpture a statue 2) to cast a statue (in bronze) 3) to unveil a statue 4) an equestrian statue * * * [ stætʃuː] sculpt sculpture a statue an equestrian statue to carve to unveil a statue to cast a statue (in bronze) …   Combinatory dictionary

• Bronze — This article is about the metal alloy. For other uses, see Bronze (disambiguation). Bronze Chola statue of Nataraja from India at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with… …   Wikipedia

• bronze — noun 1 metal ADJECTIVE ▪ cast ▪ burnished, polished VERB + BRONZE ▪ be cast in, be made from/in/of/out of ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Bronze sculpture — Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply a bronze . Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest …   Wikipedia

• Bronze — Bronze, n. [F. bronze, fr. It. bronzo brown, fr. OHG. br?n, G. braun. See {Brown}, a.] 1. An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Bronze age — Bronze Bronze, n. [F. bronze, fr. It. bronzo brown, fr. OHG. br?n, G. braun. See {Brown}, a.] 1. An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Bronze powder — Bronze Bronze, n. [F. bronze, fr. It. bronzo brown, fr. OHG. br?n, G. braun. See {Brown}, a.] 1. An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• cast — [kast, käst] vt. cast, casting [ME casten < ON kasta, to throw] 1. a) to put, deposit, or throw with force or violence; fling; hurl b) to give vent to as if by throwing [to cast aspersions] 2. to deposit (a ballot); register (a vote) …   English World dictionary

• statue — [n] trophy or memorial bronze, bust, cast, effigy, figure, icon, image, ivory, likeness, marble, piece, representation, sculpture, simulacrum, statuary, statuette, torso; concept 259 …   New thesaurus

• statue — [stach′o͞o] n. [OFr < L statua < statuere, to set, place < pp. of stare, to STAND] the figure of a person or animal, or an imagined or abstract form, carved in stone, wood, etc., modeled in a plastic substance, or cast in plaster, bronze …   English World dictionary

• Statue of Freedom — The Statue of Freedom , sometimes called Armed Freedom or simply Freedom , is Thomas Crawford s bronze statue that, since 1863, has crowned the dome of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The original and formal name of the work was… …   Wikipedia