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metal
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)
- (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, 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, such as an alloy.
- (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.
- 2003, Michael A. Seeds, Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond, Thomson Brooks/Cole ?ISBN
- Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
- (mining) The ore from which a metal is derived.
- (obsolete) A mine from which ores are taken.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience
- slaves […] and persons condemned to metals
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience
- 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.
- (heraldry) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
- Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
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- (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.
- (figuratively, archaic) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper.
- Synonym: mettle
- The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
- (Britain, in the plural) The rails of a railway.
- (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)
- (music) Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars. [1970s and after]
- 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.
- 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)
- To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
References
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon).
Noun
metal m (plural metals)
- 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)
- metal
Breton
Noun
metal m (plural metaloù)
- metal
Inflection
Catalan
Etymology
From English metal.
Noun
metal m (uncountable)
- (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)
- metal
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English metal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?.t?l/
- Hyphenation: me?tal
Noun
metal m (uncountable)
- (music) metal (rock genre)
- Synonym: heavy metal
Derived terms
- metalband
Related terms
- metaal
French
Alternative forms
- métal
Noun
metal m (uncountable)
- metal (music style)
Derived terms
- metal chrétien
Italian
Etymology
From English metal.
Noun
metal m (invariable)
- (music) metal
- Synonym: heavy metal
Related terms
- metallaro
Anagrams
- malte
Middle French
Noun
metal m (plural metaulx)
- metal
Occitan
Alternative forms
- metau
Etymology
From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (métallon). Attested from the 12th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
metal m (plural metals)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 2r.
Descendants
- Spanish: metal
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me?tal/
Noun
metal m (plural metaj)
- metal
Related terms
- metàlich
Polish
Etymology
From Latin metallum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?.tal/
Noun
metal m inan
- metal
- (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)
- (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)
- (music) metal; heavy metal
- Synonym: heavy metal
- (poetic) money; wealth; riches
- Synonyms: riqueza, dinheiro
- (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)
- 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 ??????)
- (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)
- metal
- (heraldry) metal
- (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)
- metal
Turkmen
Noun
metal (definite accusative ?, plural ?)
- metal
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olation
English
Noun
olation (usually uncountable, plural olations)
- (inorganic chemistry) The process by which metal ions form polymeric oxides in aqueous solution.
Related terms
- oxolation
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