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metal (met′'l)

noun

    1. any of a class of chemical elements, as iron, gold, or aluminum, generally characterized by ductility, malleability, luster, and conductivity of heat and electricity: these elements act as cations in chemical reactions, form bases with the hydroxyl radical, and can replace the hydrogen of an acid to form a salt
    2. an alloy of such elements, as brass or bronze
  2. any substance or thing consisting of metal
  3. material or substance of which someone or something is made; stuff
  4. molten cast iron
  5. molten material for making glassware
  6. heavy metal
  7. Chiefly Brit. road metal
  8. Heraldry either of the tinctures gold (or) and silver (argent)
  9. Printing
    1. type metal
    2. composed type

Etymology: OFr < L metallum, metal, mine, quarry < Gr metallon, mine, quarry

adjective

made of metal

transitive verb metaled -·aled or metalled -·alled, metaling -·al·ing or metalling -·al·ling

to cover or supply with metal

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metal Synonyms

metal

n.

element, native rock, ore, metalliferous ore, ore deposit, free metal, refined ore, smelted ore; see also alloy, mineral.

Elementary metals and varieties of metal include: gold, silver, copper, iron, steel, aluminum, manganese, nickel, lead, cobalt, platinum, zinc, tin, barium, cadmium, chromium, tungsten, mercury, iridium, molybdenum, antimony, vanadium, alunite, corundum, lithium, sodium, potassium, ribidium, caesium, casium, strontium, radium, beryllium, magnesium, gallium, indium, thallium, cerium, calcium, celtium, anthanium, americium, terbium, holmium, titanium, germanium, arsenic, bismuth, uranium, dysprosium, erbium, rhodium, ruthenium, palladium, osmium, indium, lanthanum, entecium, neodymium, niobium, praseodymion, samarium, tantalum, thorium, thulium, ytterbium, zirconium.


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metal Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • melt: The skin friction of the missile at those speeds at those altitudes would melt any metals or nonmetals available.

Adjective modifier

  • precious: A hallmark is a series of official marks that verify the purity of an article made from precious metal.

Modifies a noun

  • detector: Do you need a license to use a metal detector?

Noun used with modifier

  • scrap: Scrap metal Scrap metal can be taken to our Recycling Center.
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metal quotes

The cold metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

-Schumpeter,Joseph Alois

Among the forests Of metal the one human Sound was the lament of The poets for deciduous language.

-Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart)

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