Meaning

13 senses
  1. Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.

    (countable, uncountable)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 of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy.

  3. (countable, uncountable)An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The ore from which a metal is derived.

  6. (countable, uncountable)A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).

  7. (countable, uncountable)Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, etc.) characterized by strong drumbeats and distorted guitars.

    Metal

    ме́талmétal, мета́ллmetáll

    ме́талmétal, мета́лmetál

  9. (countable, uncountable)The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.

  10. (UK, countable, in the plural, uncountable)The rails of a railway.

  11. (countable, informal, uncountable)The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.

    We have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airways metal.

  12. Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.

    (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A mine from which ores are taken.

Examples

351 sentences
  1. Is it made of wood or metal?

    Це зроблено із дерева чи металу?

    ruЭто сделано из дерева или из металла?

    deIst es aus Holz oder aus Metall angefertigt?

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  2. Iron is a metal with many uses.

    Залізо — метал, що має багато застосувань.

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  3. Is this made out of wood or metal?

    Це зроблено із дерева чи металу?

    ruЭто сделано из дерева или из металла?

    deIst es aus Holz oder Metall?

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  4. Gold is a metal.

    Золото — метал.

    ruЗолото — это металл.

    deGold ist ein Metall.

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  5. Iron is a useful metal.

    Залізо — корисний метал.

    ruЖелезо — полезный металл.

    deEisen ist ein nützliches Metall.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
atomic element or material made of such atoms:
certain category of rock music:
Русский
By meaning 2
atomic element or material made of such atoms:
certain category of rock music:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
atomic element or material made of such atoms:
certain category of rock music:

Origin

From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal,

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

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Forms

plural: metals
Singularmetal
Pluralmetals

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten:alloy
  • any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.:metallic element

Antonyms

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

Word family

149 related words

Collocations

6 patterns
  • heavy metal
  • heavy metal guitarist
  • metal guitarist
  • to heavy metal
  • is a metal
  • metal box

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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