Metal

['met(ə)l] or ['mɛtl]

Definition

(verb.) cover with metal.

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Definition

(n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.

(n.) Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.

(n.) A mine from which ores are taken.

(n.) The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.

(n.) Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.

(n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

(n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.

(n.) Glass in a state of fusion.

(n.) The rails of a railroad.

(v. t.) To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.

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Definition

n. an opaque substance possessing a peculiar lustre fusibility conductivity for heat and electricity &c. such as gold &c.: courage or spirit (now spelt mettle): intrinsic quality: the number and power of guns carried by a ship-of-war: broken stones used for macadamised roads: (pl.) the rails of a railroad.—v.t. to put metal on as a road.—n. Metalic′ity.—adjs. Met′alled covered with metal as a road; Metal′lic pertaining to or like a metal: consisting of metal.—adv. Metal′lically.—adjs. Metallif′erous producing or yielding metals; Metal′liform having the form of metals: like metal; Met′alline pertaining to a metal: consisting of or mixed with metal.—ns. Met′alling road-metal broken stones; Metallisā′tion.—v.t. Met′allise to form into metal: to give to a substance its metallic properties.—ns. Met′allist a worker in metals: one who is skilled in metals: an advocate of the use of metal as currency; Metal′lograph a print produced by metallographic process.—adj. Metallograph′icns. Metallog′raphist; Metallog′raphy an account or description of metals: a process for utilising metal plates in a manner similar to lithographic stones: a process of imitating the grain of wood on metals; Met′alloid one of the metallic bases of the fixed alkalies and alkaline earths: any of the elements which are non-metallic in the chemical sense of being able to replace hydrogen in an acid and thus forming a salt: one of the inflammable non-metallic elements (sulphur phosphorus &c.).—adjs. Met′alloid Metalloid′al pertaining to or of the nature of the metalloids.—ns. Metal′lophone a kind of piano having graduated metal bars in place of strings: a musical instrument differing from the xylophone in having metal instead of wooden bars; Met′allotherapy the treatment of disease by the external application of metals.—Metallic oxide a compound of metal and oxygen; Metallic salts salts having a metal or metallic oxide for base.—Base metals lead zinc copper iron; Fusible metal a metallic alloy that fuses at a very low temperature—usually of lead tin and bismuth; Light metals those whose specific gravity is less than 5; Noble or Perfect metals gold silver platinum so called because they keep their lustre when exposed to the air.

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