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New English :: metal
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metal - (Music) (Youth Culture) see heavy metal |
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Traditional English :: metal
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metal - n., adj., & v. --n. 1 a any of a class of chemical elements such as gold, silver, iron, and tin, usu. lustrous ductile solids and good conductors of heat and electricity and forming basic oxides. b an alloy of any of these.
2 material used for making glass, in a molten state.
3 Heraldry gold or silver as tincture.
4 (in pl.) the rails of a railway line.
5 = road-metal (see ROAD(1) )). --adj. --v.tr. (metalled, metalling; US metaled, metaling)
1 provide or fit with metal.
2 Brit. make or mend (a road) with road-metal. metal detector an electronic device giving a signal when it locates metal. metal fatigue fatigue (see FATIGUE n. 2) in metal. [ME f. OF metal or L metallum f. Gk metallon mine] |
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Related Words
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death metal
heavy metal
heavy metal music
metal detector
metal furniture
metal gazebo
metal mulisha
metal lathe
metal cutting
metal home
metal ceiling
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american metal market
scrap metal prices
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