PLATINUM


Meaning of PLATINUM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

platinum blonde

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

group

This programme aims to use platinum group metal coatings for high temperature corrosion protection.

■ VERB

go

Twenty four of his albums have gone platinum .

Main Course went platinum and generated amazing amounts of black radio play.

Fourteen of his albums went gold and eight platinum .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An outer cylinder of platinum was used as the anode, with a rod of palladium on its axis as the cathode.

Broken Hill has a large new platinum mine there.

Fourteen of his albums went gold and eight platinum .

I thought if they were stars, they would be selling gold and platinum albums.

My hair is platinum , like Gemma's but shorter, finger-curled.

President of the Institute of Metals in 1938-40, he was awarded their platinum medal in 1941.

There can be few facts about the history of the platinum metals which can not be found here, in attractive form.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.