metal
metal (met′'l)
noun
- 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
- an alloy of such elements, as brass or bronze
- any substance or thing consisting of metal
- material or substance of which someone or something is made; stuff
- molten cast iron
- molten material for making glassware
- heavy metal
- Chiefly Brit. road metal
- Heraldry either of the tinctures gold (or) and silver (argent)
- Printing
- type metal
- composed type
Etymology: OFr < L metallum, metal, mine, quarry < Gr metallon, mine, quarry
adjective
metal
n.
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.
Converse of object
- melt: The skin friction of the missile at those speeds at those altitudes would melt any metals or nonmetals available.
- trace: Dr. C M G van den Berg speciation of trace metals in natural waters.
- bend: Place the metal on top of the card frame and carefully bend the metal over each of the edges.
Adjective modifier
- precious: A hallmark is a series of official marks that verify the purity of an article made from precious metal.
- heavy: I'm also a fan of good ' ol heavy metal.
- molten: Blessed, 8, from Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa, knows all about molten metal.
- non-ferrous: Bronze Age It is a highly specialized foundry using the lost wax method to cast works in bronze and other non-ferrous metals.
- ferrous: Corrosion destroys one-fifth of the world's production of ferrous metals annually!
- toxic: On top of this trees will absorb many impurities in the air, for example particles of toxic metals, such as lead.
Modifies a noun
- detector: Do you need a license to use a metal detector?
- halide: How does the solubility of silver halides compare with the solubility of group I metal halides?
- ion: The wind is analogous to the electron current, the leaves on the tree to the metal ions in a conductor.
- oxide: Reaction with acids Magnesium oxide reacts with acids as you would expect any simple metal oxide to react.
- plate: Rich people used metal plates of silver or pewter.
- detectorists: The CBA also recognizes that damage can be caused by metal detectorists ' activities.
Noun used with modifier
- scrap: Scrap metal Scrap metal can be taken to our Recycling Center.
- alkali: Alkali Metal: reactive metallic elements which form alkaline solutions in water and burn in air.
- transition: I am interested to see whether such novel behavior is mirrored in transition metal systems.
- sheet: Does your building have aging sheet metal or asbestos roofs or leaks?
- uranium: This recognition of the discharge of uranium metal posed of becquerel's false.
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.
Among the forests Of metal the one human Sound was the lament of The poets for deciduous language.
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