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adj
Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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adj
Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
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noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: heading
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noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: heading
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noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: astronomy, heading, natural-sciences
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noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: heading
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noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
The ore from which a metal is derived.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, heading, mining
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noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
A mine from which ores are taken.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: heading
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noun
A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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noun
Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, crafts, glassblowing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, etc.) characterized by strong drumbeats and distorted guitars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Synonyms: heavy metal
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noun
The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable
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Synonyms: mettle
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noun
The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The rails of a railway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, lifestyle, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, tourism, transport, travel
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verb
To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
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noun
a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: alloy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mixture
Narrower terms: heavy metal, 18-karat gold, 22-karat gold, oroide, oreide, Alnico, amalgam, dental amalgam, fusible metal, electrum, pewter, pinchbeck, pot metal, solder, white gold, type metal, white metal, bearing metal, Babbitt metal, babbitt, Britannia metal, Carboloy, steel, cheoplastic metal, copper-base alloy, dental gold, Duralumin, Inconel, Invar, nickel-base alloy, nickel alloy, nickel silver, German silver, pyrophoric alloy, shot metal, Stellite, sterling silver, tombac, tombak, tambac, Wood's metal, Wood's alloy
noun
any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: metallic element
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chemical element, element
Narrower terms: heavy metal, base metal, noble metal, aluminum, aluminium, Al, atomic number 13, americium, Am, atomic number 95, antimony, Sb, atomic number 51, barium, Ba, atomic number 56, berkelium, Bk, atomic number 97, beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4, bismuth, Bi, atomic number 83, cadmium, Cd, atomic number 48, calcium, Ca, atomic number 20, californium, Cf, atomic number 98, cerium, Ce, atomic number 58, cesium, caesium, Cs, atomic number 55, chromium, Cr, atomic number 24, cobalt, Co, atomic number 27, copper, Cu, atomic number 29, curium, Cm, atomic number 96, dysprosium, Dy, atomic number 66, einsteinium, Es, E, atomic number 99, erbium, Er, atomic number 68, europium, Eu, atomic number 63, fermium, Fm, atomic number 100, francium, Fr, atomic number 87, gadolinium, Gd, atomic number 64, gallium, Ga, atomic number 31, hafnium, Hf, atomic number 72, holmium, Ho, atomic number 67, indium, In, atomic number 49, iridium, Ir, atomic number 77, iron, Fe, atomic number 26, lanthanum, La, atomic number 57, lead, Pb, atomic number 82, lithium, Li, atomic number 3, lutetium, lutecium, Lu, atomic number 71, magnesium, Mg, atomic number 12, manganese, Mn, atomic number 25, mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80, molybdenum, Mo, atomic number 42, neodymium, Nd, atomic number 60, neptunium, Np, atomic number 93, nickel, Ni, atomic number 28, niobium, Nb, atomic number 41, osmium, Os, atomic number 76, palladium, Pd, atomic number 46, polonium, Po, atomic number 84, potassium, K, atomic number 19, praseodymium, Pr, atomic number 59, promethium, Pm, atomic number 61, protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number 91, radium, Ra, atomic number 88, rhenium, Re, atomic number 75, rhodium, Rh, atomic number 45, rubidium, Rb, atomic number 37, ruthenium, Ru, atomic number 44, samarium, Sm, atomic number 62, scandium, Sc, atomic number 21, sodium, Na, atomic number 11, strontium, Sr, atomic number 38, tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73, technetium, Tc, atomic number 43, terbium, Tb, atomic number 65, thallium, Tl, atomic number 81, thorium, Th, atomic number 90, thulium, Tm, atomic number 69, tin, Sn, atomic number 50, titanium, Ti, atomic number 22, tungsten, wolfram, W, atomic number 74, uranium, U, atomic number 92, vanadium, V, atomic number 23, ytterbium, Yb, atomic number 70, yttrium, Y, atomic number 39, zinc, Zn, atomic number 30, zirconium, Zr, atomic number 40, alkali metal, alkaline metal, alkaline earth, alkaline-earth metal
verb
cover with metal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: coat, surface
History
Etymology tree Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der. Latin metallum Old French metalbor. Middle English metal English metal From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
Across languages
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