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English

Etymology

From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?t?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?m?.??l]
• Rhymes: -?t?l
• Homophone: mettle
• Homophones: medal, meddle (in accents with flapping)

Noun

metal (countable and uncountable, plural metals)

1. (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
   1. 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.
   2. Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.
   3. (astronomy) An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.
      • 2003, Michael A. Seeds, Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond, Thomson Brooks/Cole ?ISBN

        Most of the matter in stars is hydrogen and helium, and the metals (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 the metals — including oxygen — are contained in the solid phase.

      • 2015, Alan Longstaff, Astrobiology: An Introduction, CRC Press ?ISBN, page 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.

   4. Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
   5. (mining) The ore from which a metal is derived.
   6. (obsolete) A mine from which ores are taken.
      • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience

        slaves […] and persons condemned to metals

2. (heraldry) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
3. Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.

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4. (music) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
6. (figuratively, archaic) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper.

   Synonym: mettle
7. The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
8. (Britain, in the plural) The rails of a railway.
9. (informal, travel, aviation) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.

Antonyms

• (any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms): nonmetal

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

metal (comparative more metal, superlative most metal)

1. (music) Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars. [1970s and after]
2. Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
   • 2008, Lich King, "Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast", Toxic Zombie Onslaught.

Related terms

• heavy metal

Verb

metal (third-person singular simple present metals, present participle metalling, simple past and past participle metalled)

1. To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.

References

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon).

Noun

metal m (plural metals)

1. metal

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “metal”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon).

Noun

metal m (plural metales)

1. metal

Breton

Noun

metal m (plural metaloù)

1. metal

Inflection

Catalan

Etymology

From English metal.

Noun

metal m (uncountable)

1. (music) metal

Danish

Etymology

From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon, “metal, mine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /metal/, [me?t?al]

Noun

metal n (singular definite metallet, plural indefinite metaller)

1. metal

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English metal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.t?l/
• Hyphenation: me?tal

Noun

metal m (uncountable)

1. (music) metal (rock genre)

   Synonym: heavy metal

Derived terms

• metalband

Related terms

• metaal

French

Alternative forms

• métal

Noun

metal m (uncountable)

1. metal (music style)

Derived terms

• metal chrétien

Italian

Etymology

From English metal.

Noun

metal m (invariable)

1. (music) metal

   Synonym: heavy metal

Related terms

• metallaro

Anagrams

• malte

Middle French

Noun

metal m (plural metaulx)

1. metal

Occitan

Alternative forms

• metau

Etymology

From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon). Attested from the 12th century.

Pronunciation

Noun

metal m (plural metals)

1. metal

Related terms

• metallic
• metallurgia

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin metallum, see above

Noun

metal m (oblique plural metaus or metax or metals, nominative singular metaus or metax or metals, nominative plural metal)

1. metal (material)

Old Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed with apocope from Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [me?tal]

Noun

metal m (plural metales)

1. metal
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 2r.

     Et es grand marauilla que el fierro que uence todos los otros metales por fortaleza que a en ?i uence lo e?ta piedra por ?u ??edat.

     And it is a great marvel that iron, which defats all other metals due to the strength it has, is defeated by this stone due to its property.

   • Idem, f. 21v.

     Et otro??i ?i lo mezclan con e?tanno torna negro. ¬ ?i con plata lo mezclan recibe la blancura della ¬ a??i faz con cada metal.

     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 every metal.

Descendants

• Spanish: metal

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?tal/

Noun

metal m (plural metaj)

1. metal

Related terms

• metàlich

Polish

Etymology

From Latin metallum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.tal/

Noun

metal m inan

1. metal
2. (heraldry) metal

Declension

Antonyms

• niemetal

Derived terms

• metalowy

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese metal, from Old Spanish metal, from Old Catalan metall, matall, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /m?.?ta?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.?taw/
• Hyphenation: me?tal

Noun

metal m (plural metais)

1. (chemistry) metal (any of a number of elements that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms)

   Antonyms: não-metal, ametal

2. metal (any of a number of a number of hard but malleable materials consisting of metallic atoms)
3. (music) metal; heavy metal

   Synonym: heavy metal

4. (poetic) money; wealth; riches

   Synonyms: riqueza, dinheiro

5. (heraldry) white ((argent) or yellow (or) tincture on a coat of arms

Derived terms

Related terms

• metálico
• heavy metal

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?tal/

Noun

metal n (plural metale)

1. metal

Declension

Related terms

• metalic

Further reading

• metal in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ta?l/
• Hyphenation: me?tal

Noun

mèt?l m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (chemistry) metal

   Synonym: kovina

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish metal, from Old French métal or Old Occitan metall, these from Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?tal/, [me?t?al]
• Hyphenation: me?tal

Noun

metal m (plural metales)

1. metal
2. (heraldry) metal
3. (music) metal

Derived terms

Related terms

• metálico
• metalizar

Further reading

• “metal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Turkish

Etymology

From French métal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.tal/

Noun

metal (definite accusative metali, plural metaller)

1. metal

Turkmen

Noun

metal (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. metal

English

Etymology

From mono- +? basic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?s?k
• Hyphenation: mon?o?ba?sic

Adjective

monobasic (not comparable)

1. (chemistry, of an acid) Containing one replaceable hydrogen atom.
2. (chemistry, of a salt) Having one atom of a univalent metal.
3. (zoology) Having only one subordinate taxon; monotypic.

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