METALANGUAGE.html - n.
1 a form of language used to discuss a language.
2 a system of propositions about propositions.

METALANGUAGE.html - (Music) (Youth Culture) see heavy metal

METALANGUAGE.html - 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.

made of metal.

--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]

METALANGUAGE.html - n.
1 a form of language used to discuss a language.
2 a system of propositions about propositions.

METALANGUAGE.html - adj.
1 of, consisting of, or characteristic of metal or metals.
2 sounding sharp and ringing, like struck metal.
3 having the sheen or lustre of metals.

metallically adv. [L metallicus f. Gk metallikos (as METAL)]

METALANGUAGE.html - adj.
bearing or producing metal. [L metallifer (as METAL, -FEROUS)]