FromMiddle English metal Old French metal Latin metallum ( “ metal, mine, quarry, mineral ” ) , itself a borrowing fromAncient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ,“ mine, quarry, metal ” ) .
metal (countable anduncountable plural metals
( heading ) Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from. Any of a number of chemicalelements in the periodic table that form ametallic bond with other metal atoms; generallyshiny , somewhatmalleable andhard , often aconductor of heat andelectricity .2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, inThe Economist [2] 411 , number8884 , archived fromthe original on26 March 2019 :Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silverymetal , began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, inCNN [3] Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of moltenmetals at Earth’s core.
Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as analloy .1879 R[ichard] J[efferies] , chapter 1, inThe Amateur Poacher , London:Smith, Elder, & Co. , [ … ] →OCLC But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass ofmetal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window [ …]
( astronomy ) Big Bang but instead formed throughnuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen andhelium .2003 Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond , Thomson Brooks/Cole,→ISBN Most of the matter in stars is hydrogen and helium, and themetals (including carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and so on) were cooked up inside stars.
2008 , Lunar and Planetary Institute, Geochemical Society,Oxygen in the solar system , Mineralogical Society of Amer→ISBN Thus, for the remaining elements, including oxygen, the solid phase appears to be important. In fact, at a metallicity of Z=0.02, and with a gas-to-dust ratio of 100, about half of themetals — including oxygen — are contained in the solid phase. 2015 Astrobiology: An Introduction , CRC Press,→ISBN 350 :Metals include oxygen and carbon which means that water and organic molecules would have been abundant in the early universe, perhaps paving the way for the emergence of life within a couple of billion years of the Big Bang.
Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make aroad .1922 The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division [4] One of the most important tasks was the metalling of the roads, and the dumping ofmetal beside them in parts where it was impossible to lay it, in order that work might commence with the assault. The surface of the roads was good, but only because the Division had been holding a front so wide, which made the traffic upon them relatively light.
( mining ) ore from which a metal is derived.[ 1] ( obsolete ) 1660 Jeremy Taylor ,Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; [ … ] , volume(please specify |volume=I or II) , London: [ … ] James Flesher, forRichard Royston [ … ] →OCLC slaves[ …] metals
( heraldry ) tincture used in acoat of arms , specificallyargent (white or silver) andor (gold).Coordinate terms: colour stain fur ( glassblowing ) glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.[ 2] ( music ) rock music encompassing a number of genres (includingthrash metal ,death metal ,heavy metal , etc.) characterized by strongdrumbeats anddistorted guitars.2019 April 11, Harmeet Kaur, “Authorities say black metal may have influenced the Louisiana church fires suspect. Here’s what to know.”, inCNN [5] While the motive is still under investigation, authorities said that Matthews’ interest in blackmetal music may have influenced his behavior.
( figurative , archaic ) Synonym: mettle 1598–1599 William Shakespeare , “Much Adoe about Nothing ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act II, scene i] ,page104 :Leonato. Well, neece, I hope to ſee you one day fitted with a husband. /Beatrice. Not till God make men of ſome othermettall then earth, would it not grieue a woman to be over-maſtred with a peece of valiant duſt?
The effective power orcalibre ofguns carried by avessel ofwar . ( UK , in theplural ) rails of arailway .( informal , travel , aviation ) We have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airwaysmetal .
( antonym(s) of “ any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms ” ) : nonmetal atomic element or material made of such atoms
Abkhaz:аметалл ( ametʼall ) Afrikaans:metaal (af) Albanian:metal (sq) m Arabic:فِلِزّ ( filizz ) ,مَعْدِن (ar) m ( maʕdin ) Egyptian Arabic:معدن m ( maʕdin ) Armenian:մետաղ (hy) ( metaġ ) Assamese:ধাতু ( dhatu ) Asturian:metal (ast) m Avar:металл ( metall ) Azerbaijani:metal (az) Basque:metal (eu) Belarusian:мета́л m ( mjetál ) ,мэта́ль m ( metálʹ ) ( Taraškievica ) ,мэта́л m ( metál ) ( Taraškievica ) Bengali:ধাতু (bn) ( dhatu ) Breton:metal (br) m Brunei Malay:basi Bulgarian:мета́л (bg) m ( metál ) Burmese:သတ္တု (my) ( sattu. ) Carpathian Rusyn:ков m ( kov ) ,мета́л m ( metál ) Catalan:metall (ca) Chechen:металл ( metall ) Chinese:Cantonese:金屬 / 金属 ( gam1 suk6 ) Mandarin:金屬 / 金属 (zh) ( jīnshǔ ) ,金 (zh) ( jīn ) Chukchi:пыԓвынтын ( pyḷvyntyn ) Czech:kov (cs) m Danish:metal (da) n Dutch:metaal (nl) n Eastern Bontoc:komak lanchok Esperanto:metalo Estonian:metall Ewe:ga Faroese:málmur m skervur m málmbland n Finnish:metalli (fi) French:métal (fr) m Galician:metal (gl) m Georgian:ლითონი ( litoni ) ,მეტალი ( meṭali ) German:Metall (de) n Greek:μέταλλο (el) n ( métallo ) Ancient:μέταλλον n ( métallon ) Guaraní:kuarepoti Gujarati:ધાતુ (gu) ( dhātu ) Hebrew:מַתֶּכֶת (he) f ( matékhet ) Hindi:धातु (hi) m ( dhātu ) ,धात (hi) m ( dhāt ) Hungarian:fém (hu) ,érc (hu) Icelandic:málmur (is) m Ido:metalo (io) Ilocano:metal Indonesian:logam (id) Interlingua:metallo (ia) Irish:miotal (ga) m Middle Irish:mital Italian:metallo (it) Japanese:金 (ja) ( kane ) ,金属 (ja) ( kinzoku ) Kalmyk:төмрлг ( tömrlg ) Kazakh:металл (kk) ( metall ) Khmer:លោហៈ (km) ( loohaʼ ) Korean:금속(金屬) (ko) ( geumsok ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:kanza (ku) ,metal (ku) Kyrgyz:металл (ky) ( metall ) Lao:ໂລຫະ ( lō ha ) Latin:metallum (la) n Latvian:metāls (lv) m Lithuanian:metãlas (lt) m Macedonian:метал (mk) m ( metal ) Malagasy:metaly (mg) Malay:logam (ms) Malayalam:ലോഹം (ml) ( lōhaṁ ) Maori:maitai mētara (mi) Marathi:धातू m ( dhātū ) Middle English:metal Mongolian:Cyrillic:металл (mn) ( metall ) Mongolian:ᠮᠧᠲ᠋ᠠᠯ ( mētal ) Navajo:béésh Nepali:धातु (ne) ( dhātu ) Norwegian:Bokmål:metall (no) n Nynorsk:metall n Occitan:metal (oc) m Ossetian:згъӕр ( zǧær ) ,металл ( metall ) Ottoman Turkish:معدن ( maʿden ) Pali:loha n Pashto:فلز (ps) m ( felez ) ,زر (ps) m ( zar ) ( metal, gold ) Persian:Dari:فِلِز ( filiz ) Iranian Persian:فِلِز ( felez ) Plautdietsch:Mettol n Polish:metal (pl) m Portuguese:metal (pt) m Quechua:chuqi q'illay Romanian:metal (ro) n Russian:мета́лл (ru) m ( metáll ) ,круше́ц (ru) m ( krušéc ) ( archaic ) Sanskrit:धातु (sa) m ( dhātu ) ,अयस् (sa) n ( ayas ) ,लोह (sa) m ( loha ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:мѐта̄л m ко̏вина f Roman:mètāl (sh) m kȍvina (sh) f Sikkimese:ལྕགས་རིགས ( lcags rigs ) Slovak:kov (sk) m Slovene:kovina (sl) f Southern Kalinga:aka Southern Altai:темир ( temir ) ,металл ( metall ) Spanish:metal (es) m Swahili:metali Swedish:metall (sv) c Tagalog:bakal (tl) ,metal (tl) ,kansa (tl) Tajik:металл ( metall ) ,фулуз (tg) ( fuluz ) Telugu:లోహము (te) ( lōhamu ) Thai:โลหะ (th) ( loo-hà ) Tibetan:ལྕགས་རིགས ( lcags rigs ) Tupinambá:itá Turkish:metal (tr) Turkmen:metal Tuvan:демир ( demir ) Tuwali Ifugao:gum'ok landuk Ukrainian:мета́л (uk) m ( metál ) Unami:please add this translation if you can Urdu:دھات m ( dhāt ) Uyghur:مېتال ( mëtal ) Uzbek:metall (uz) ,temir (uz) Veps:metall Vietnamese:kim loại (vi) West Frisian:metaal n White Hmong:hlau Yiddish:מעטאַל ( metal ) Zhuang:gimsug
certain category of rock music
metal (comparative moremetal ,superlative mostmetal )
( music ) [1970s and after] Having theemotional orsocial characteristics associated withmetal music ; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.2008 Toxic Zombie Onslaught :The beast will destroy everything in his pathmetal title of all
2012 Front [6] 171 ,→ISSN →OCLC page40 :Top tip: Bowling gloves are for sissies, although they lookmetal as fuck.
metal (third-person singular simple present metals present participle ( US ) metaling or ( UK ) metalling simple past and past participle ( US ) metaled or ( UK ) metalled
Tomake aroad using crushed rock, stones etc. ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881 ), “Metal”, inA Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. [ … ] , Easton, Pa.:[ American] Institute[ of Mining Engineers] [ … ] →OCLC ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877 ), “Metal”, inKnight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. [ … ] , volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.:Hurd and Houghton [ … ] →OCLC metal m definite metali
( chemistry ) metal “metal ”, inFGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language 2006 FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language [7] 1980 FromLatin metallum Ancient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ) .
metal m plural metals
metal FromLatin metallum Ancient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ) .
metal m plural metales
metal metal m plural metaloù
metal Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
Borrowed fromEnglish metal Doublet ofmetall
metal m uncountable
( music ) metal metal
masculine singular past active participle ofmetat FromLatin metallum Ancient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ,“ metal, mine ” ) .
metal n singular definite metallet plural indefinite metaller
metal Borrowed fromEnglish metal
IPA (key ) : /ˈmɛ.təl/ Hyphenation:me‧tal metal m uncountable nodiminutive )
( music ) metal ( rock genre ) Synonym: heavy metal metal m uncountable
metal ( music style ) metal m plural metais
metal De pouco lle sirve seu durometal que o tempo e o tempo virá a derreter. His hardmetal is of little use to him as time and time will come to melt. Borrowed fromEnglish metal
metal m invariable
( music ) metal Synonym: heavy metal matall mataylle metail metaille metall metalle metel metell metelle mettall mettel Borrowed fromOld French metal Latin metallum Ancient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ) .
IPA (key ) : /mɛˈtaːl/ ,/ˈmɛtal/ ,/ˈmɛtəl/ metal plural metalles
metal ( class of elements ) metalwork ( metal item ) ( mining ) metal ore ( heraldry , rare ) metal ( class of tinctures ) metal m plural metaulx
metal FromLatin metallum Ancient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ) . Attested from the 12th century.[ 1]
metal m plural metals
metal ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana [1] 2008-2025 , page380 Joan de Cantalausa (2006 ),Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians [8] →ISBN 644 FromLatin metallum
metal oblique singular , m oblique plural metaus or metax or metals nominative singular metaus or metax or metals nominative plural metal
metal ( material ) Borrowed with apocope fromLatin metallum Ancient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ) .
metal m plural metales
metal c. 1250 Alfonso X ,Lapidario ,f. 2r. :Et es grand marauilla que el fierro que uence todos los otrosmetales por fortaleza que a en ſi uence lo eſta piedra por ſu ṕṕedat. And it is a great marvel that iron, which defats all othermetals due to the strength it has, is defeated by this stone due to its property. c. 1250 Alfonso X ,Lapidario ,f. 21v. :Et otroſſi ſi lo mezclan con eſtanno torna negro. ⁊ ſi con plata lo mezclan recibe la blancura della ⁊ aſſi faz con cadametal . And also, if they mix it with tin it becomes black, and if they mix it with silver it receives whiteness from it, and likewise with everymetal . metal m plural metaj
metal Internationalism ; compareEnglish metal French métal German Metall Latin metallum Ancient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ) .Sense 3 is asemantic loan fromEnglish metal
metal m inan related adjective metalowy
( chemistry ) metal ( atomic element or material made of such atoms ) Antonym: niemetal ( heraldry ) metal ( light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold) ) metal ( style of music ) metal m pers
( music , slang ) metalhead ,metaller ,metallist ( one who listens to heavy metal music ) Synonyms: heavymetalowiec metalowiec metal inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANmetal in Polish dictionaries at PWNInherited fromOld Galician-Portuguese metal Old Spanish metal Old Catalan metall matall Latin metallum ( “ metal, mine, quarry, mineral ” ) , fromAncient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ,“ mine, quarry, metal ” ) .
Rhymes:-al -aw Hyphenation:me‧tal metal m plural metais
( chemistry ) metal ( any of a number of elements that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms ) Antonyms: não-metal ametal metal ( any of a number of a number of hard but malleable materials consisting of metallic atoms ) ( poetic ) money ;wealth ;riches Synonyms: riqueza dinheiro ( heraldry ) argent ) or yellow (or ) tincture on a coat of arms( music , usually in theplural ) brass instrument Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish metal
( Portugal ) IPA (key ) : /ˌmɛˈtɐl/ [ˌmɛˈtɐɫ] ,/mɨˈtal/ [mɨˈtaɫ] ( Southern Portugal ) IPA (key ) : /ˌmɛˈtɐ.li/ ,/mɨˈta.li/
metal m uncountable
( music ) metal heavy metal Synonym: heavy metal Borrowed fromFrench métal German Metall
metal n plural metale
metal IPA (key ) : /mětaːl/ Hyphenation:me‧tal mètāl m inan Cyrillic spelling мѐта̄л
( chemistry ) metal Synonym: kovina “metal ”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal 2006–2025 métał
masculine singular l-participle ofmetáti Inherited fromOld Spanish metal Old French métal Old Occitan metall Latin metallum Ancient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ,“ mine, quarry, metal ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /meˈtal/ [meˈt̪al] Rhymes:-al Syllabification:me‧tal metal m plural metales
metal ( heraldry ) metal ( music ) metal Borrowed fromSpanish metal Old Spanish metal Old French métal Old Occitan metall Latin metallum Ancient Greek μέταλλον ( métallon ,“ mine, quarry, metal ” ) .
metál (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜆᜎ᜔
metal Synonym: ( rare ) kansa “metal ”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila,2018 FromFrench métal
metal (definite accusative metali plural metaller
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