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The Wall Street crash of 1929 doomed the logging firm, but the next year Parsons became the general manager of the Luzon Stevedoring Co., which exported manganese, chrome, coconuts, rice and other commodities to several countries, including Japan.
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Jones plans to showcase his white cleats for Mountain Brook's home games and black cleats for road games, complete with gold chrome trim.
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That included painting the walls a dark gray-blue on the bottom and a lighter shade on top, outfitting the bathroom in chrome fixtures and installing a dark chestnut vanity that adds coziness to the room.
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One day Delevingne is covered in silver paint, the next topped with a chrome toupee, the next gone Disney punk princess with a black headband—
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Police said the victim had been shot in the head while in bed and that a chrome revolver was found on the floor.
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The X-Class Pure is more rugged, the X-Class Progressive has some extra styling and comfort functions, and the X-Class Power combines the best performance and luxury appointments like a chrome bumper and premium interior materials.
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All the chrome and plastic wonders of the modern world can be had in exchange for Green Stamps.
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An industrial-looking scissor-lift-esque console from Kittles with a '70s stereo pairs with a massive TV mounted over a taupe suede couch from a past relationship — all under a sleek, bladeless chrome ceiling fan.
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Origin and Etymology of chrome
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The company’s new Windows 10 S system, which the company showed off Tuesday, looks like a direct competitor to Chrome OS, the operating system that powers Google’s low-cost Chromebooks.
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First Known Use of chrome
1876
-chrome
noun combining form or adjective combining form
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ˌkrōm
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Definition of -chrome
1
:colored thing
- heliochrome
2
:coloring matter
- urochrome
Origin and Etymology of -chrome
Medieval Latin -chromat-, -chroma colored thing, from Greek chrōmat-, chrōma
CHROME Defined for English Language Learners
chrome
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Definition of chrome for English Language Learners
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: a type of metal that is used to cover other metals in order to make them shiny
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