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3 of 3noun combining form or adjective combining form
Examples of chrome in a Sentence
Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
Fans dressed in extravagant outfits — usually featuring cowboy hats and chrome — every night, leaving Tina impressed.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
It’s accented by flashes of Mandarin on the inserts below the darkened chrome grille and the brake calipers.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
The hue is broken up only by the car’s badging, which is now finished in matte white gold as opposed to the chrome found on the other versions of the car.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
This sleek, chrome frother is made to simplify your brewing experience and bring your favorite coffee shop home.
—Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
The bed is flanked by two nightstands, which combine chrome and oak with a marble top.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
This bright, eye-catching jacket has a stunning chrome exterior.
—Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
Leather accents and chrome zippers add a touch of sophistication, perfectly suited to wheeling through the lobby of a business hotel or into a meeting right after a flight.
—Ashlea Halpern, wsj.com, 21 Oct. 2023
Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
The car, which appeared in episode seven of The Last Dance, is finished in metallic dark blue and features custom exterior work, including a wide-body kit and chrome monobloc wheels, by Lorinser.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 July 2023
In 1976, West magazine commissioned her to construct a facsimile home from junked car parts, replete with a hood roof and chrome windows made of fenders.
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 30 June 2023
In the first couple of films (his five-film run suffered from wildly diminishing returns), there was a certain sensory satisfaction in all that was shiny and chrome, the clicks and whirs of metallic pieces sliding into place with an almost ASMR-like tingle.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
Finishes Touchless kitchen faucets come in a variety of finishes, ranging from stainless steel to chrome to matte black to champagne bronze.
—Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 May 2023
From sparkly cowboy hats to chrome stomping boots, here’s your complete guide to what to wear to Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour based off of Beyoncé's exact tour outfits.
—Seventeen, 13 May 2023
Car detailers, however, would have to quit using it by 2027, even though chroming cars accounts for 0.4% of all hexavalent chromium emissions in the state.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
First-floor powder rooms have pedestal sinks and chrome faucets.
—Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
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Word History
Noun
borrowed from French chrôme, borrowed from Greek chrôma "color" — more at -chrome
Note: Name introduced by the French chemist Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829) in "Du plomb rouge de Sibérie, et expériences sur le nouveau métal qu'il contient," Journal des mines, Messidor, An V [vol. 6, June-July, 1797], pp. 737-60. Vauquelin notes that a word meaning "color"—originally suggested to him by the mineralogist René-Just Haüy—is fitting for the metal not because it has a distinctive color itself, but because the combinations into which it enters with oxygen (as a green oxide and red acid) are remarkable for their colors.
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derivative of chrome entry 1
Noun combining form or adjective combining form
borrowed from Greek -chrōmos "having a color (of the kind specified by the initial element)," adjective derivative of chrōmat-, chrôma "skin, complexion, color," from chrō- (the base of an s-stem *chrowos-, whence chrṓs "surface of the body, skin, flesh, complexion, color," of obscure origin) + -ma, resultative noun suffix
Note: The form *chrowos- is reconstructed on the basis of Mycenaean a-ko-ro-we-e "without spots" (or "of one color"). While chrṓs can be contracted directly from a nominative *chrowṓs, the Homeric accusative chróa, genitive chroós assume *chrowós-a, *chrowos-ós, with hyphaeresis of the second vowel of the stem.
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“Chrome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chrome. Accessed 1 Dec. 2023.
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