The difference between Chestnut and Copper

When used as nouns, chestnut means a tree or shrub of the genus castanea, whereas copper means a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol cu, and atomic number 29.

When used as adjectives, chestnut means of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut, whereas copper means made of copper.

Copper is also verb with the meaning: to sheathe or coat with copper.

check bellow for the other definitions of Chestnut and Copper

  1. Chestnut as a noun:

    A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.

  2. Chestnut as a noun:

    The nut of this tree or shrub.

  3. Chestnut as a noun (uncountable):

    A dark, reddish-brown colour/color.

    Examples:

    "color pane551608"

  4. Chestnut as a noun:

    A reddish-brown horse.

  5. Chestnut as a noun (uncountable):

    The wood of a chestnut tree.

  6. Chestnut as a noun (idiomatic):

    (Often "old chestnut") An old joke; a worn-out meme, phrase, ploy, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome or ineffective.

  7. Chestnut as a noun:

    A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human.

  8. Chestnut as a noun (UK):

    horse-chestnut

  1. Chestnut as an adjective:

    Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.

  1. Copper as a noun (uncountable):

    A reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.

  2. Copper as a noun (countable):

    Something made of copper.

  3. Copper as a noun:

    The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.

    Examples:

    "color paneBB5836"

  4. Copper as a noun (countable):

    A copper coin.

  5. Copper as a noun (UK, AU, dated):

    A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.

    Examples:

    "Mum would heat the water in a copper in the kitchen and transfer it to the tin bath."

    "I explain that socks can’t be boiled up in the copper with the sheets and towels or they shrink."

  1. Copper as an adjective:

    Made of copper.

  2. Copper as an adjective:

    Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.

  1. Copper as a verb:

    To sheathe or coat with copper.

  1. Copper as a noun (slang, law enforcement):

    A police officer.

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