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metal

About 42.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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. Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy. An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium. Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road. The ore from which a metal is derived. A mine from which ores are taken.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy.
  4. noun An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.
  5. noun Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
  6. noun The ore from which a metal is derived.
  7. noun A mine from which ores are taken.
  8. noun A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).

Similar words

bronze metallic metallike gold gold-bearing argentiferous auriferous gilded golden tinny

Often followed by

and is in ions or to of ion products

Word family

metaled metaling metalled metalling metals

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