Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchalloy,aloy, fromOld Frenchaloi, fromaloiier, fromLatinalligō.
alloy (countable anduncountable,pluralalloys)
- Ametal that is a combination of two or moreelements, at least one of which is a metal, abase metal.
- (archaic) A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.
gold withoutalloy
1888, Arthur Talbot Vanderbilt,Gold Not Only in Wales, But Also in Great Britain and Ireland: Facts and Figures, page17:Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, withoutalloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have[…]
- Anadmixture; something added whichstains,taints etc.
1815,Jane Austen,Emma, volume III, chapter 18:The sole grievance andalloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet’s welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.
- (figurative)Fusion,marriage,combination.
1986,1987 Year Book:SETH KITANGE TELEVISION AND RADIO Upheaval at CBS.[…] Bill Moyers, a CBS News commentator and special correspondent, expressed his dismay in an interview with Newsweek in which he said, “Television news has never been pure. It has always been analloy of journalism and show business.”
metal combined of more elements
- Afrikaans:alliasie,allooi
- Albanian:aliazh (sq) m
- Arabic:أُشَابَة f(ʔušāba)
- Armenian:համաձուլվածք (hy)(hamajulvackʻ),համահալվածք(hamahalvackʻ)
- Asturian:aleación f
- Azerbaijani:xəlitə,ərinti (az)
- Bashkir:иретмә(iretmə)
- Belarusian:сплаў m(splaw),сто́пак m(stópak)
- Bulgarian:сплав (bg) m(splav)
- Burmese:သတ္တုစပ် (my)(sattu.cap)
- Catalan:aliatge (ca) m,lliga (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:合金 (zh)(héjīn)
- Czech:slitina (cs) f
- Danish:legering (da) c
- Dutch:legering (nl) f
- Esperanto:alojo
- Estonian:sulam
- Faroese:málmbland
- Finnish:metalliseos (fi),lejeerinki (fi),seosmetalli
- French:alliage (fr) m
- Galician:aliaxe (gl) m,liga (gl) f
- Georgian:სინჯი(sinǯi)
- German:Legierung (de) f
- Greek:κράμα (el) n(kráma)
- Ancient Greek:χύμευσις f(khúmeusis),κρᾶμα n(krâma)
- Hebrew:סגסוגת (he) f(sagsóget),סגסוגת \ סַגְסֹגֶת (he) f(sagsóget)
- Hindi:मिश्रातु(miśrātu)
- Hungarian:ötvözet (hu)
- Icelandic:málmblanda f
- Indonesian:paduanlogam,aloi (id),aliase (id),lakur (id)
- Italian:lega (it) f
- Japanese:合金 (ja)(ごうきん, gōkin)
- Kazakh:қорытпа(qorytpa),құйма(qūima)
- Khmer:សំលោហៈ(sɑmloohaʼ)
- Korean:합금(合金) (ko)(hapgeum)
- Kyrgyz:эритме(eritme)
- Lao:ໂລຫະປະສົມ(lō ha pa som)
- Latvian:sakausējums m
- Lithuanian:lydinys m
- Macedonian:легура f(legura)
- Malay:pancalogam,aloi
- Manx:co-veain f
- Māori:koranu
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic:хайлш (mn)(xajlš)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:legering m orf
- Nynorsk:legering f
- Occitan:aliatge (oc) m
- Odia:ମିଶ୍ରଧାତୁ(miśradhātu)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian:آلِیاژ(âliyâž),هَمجوشِه(ham-juše)
- Polish:stop (pl) m,aliaż (pl) m(archaic)
- Portuguese:liga (pt) f
- Romanian:aliaj (ro) n
- Russian:сплав (ru) m(splav)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:слитина f,легура f
- Latin:slitina (sh) f,legura (sh) f
- Sinhalese:මිශ්ර ලෝහ (si)(miśra lōha)
- Slovak:zliatina (sk) f
- Slovene:zlitina (sl) f
- Spanish:aleación (es) f
- Swedish:legering (sv) c
- Tagalog:balahak
- Tajik:хӯла(xüla)
- Telugu:మిశ్రమలోహం(miśramalōhaṁ)
- Thai:โลหะเจือ (th)(loo-hà-jʉʉa)
- Turkish:alaşım (tr),halita (tr)
- Turkmen:ergin
- Ukrainian:сплав m(splav),стоп m(stop)
- Urdu:بَھرَت f(bharat)
- Uzbek:qotishma (uz)
- Vietnamese:hợp kim (vi) (合金)
- Volapük:laliad (vo),(obsolete)metalamig
- Welsh:aloi m
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Modification ofMiddle Englishalayen after Etymology 1, fromMiddle Frenchallayer, vairant ofallier, fromOld Frenchallier(“assemble, join”), fromLatinalligare(“bind to, tie to”), compound ofad(“to”) +ligare(“to bind”).
alloy (third-person singular simple presentalloys,present participlealloying,simple past and past participlealloyed)
- Tomix or combine; often used of metals.
- Toreduce thepurity of bymixing with alessvaluablesubstance.
toalloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper
- (figurative) Toimpair ordebase by mixture.
- Synonyms:abase,bastardize,sophisticate;see alsoThesaurus:adulterate
toalloy pleasure with misfortunes
