metal
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛtəl/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛtəl
- Homophone: mettle
- Homophones: medal, meddle (in accents with flapping)
NounEdit
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.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
- Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
- Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
- But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […].
- (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.
- Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
- (mining) The ore from which a metal is derived.[1]
- (obsolete) A mine from which ores are taken.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], OCLC 1179528230:
- slaves […] and persons condemned to metals
- 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[2].
- (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.
- (figurative, archaic) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper.
- Synonym: mettle
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- Leonato. Well, neece, I hope to ſee you one day fitted with a husband. / Beatrice. Not till God make men of ſome other mettall then earth, would it not grieue a woman to be over-maſtred with a peece of valiant duſt?
- The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
- (UK, in the plural) The rails of a railway.
- (informal, travel, aviation) 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.
AntonymsEdit
- (any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms): nonmetal
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AdjectiveEdit
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.
- The beast will destroy everything in his path
With this song on the upcoming brawl
It sure is a long one and tough to pronounce but
It's the most metal title of all
- 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 termsEdit
VerbEdit
metal (third-person singular simple present metals, present participle metaling or metalling, simple past and past participle metaled or metalled)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1881, Rossiter W. Raymond, A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms
- ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
AlbanianEdit
NounEdit
metal m (definite singular metali)
Further readingEdit
AragoneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
NounEdit
metal m (plural metals)
ReferencesEdit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “metal”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
NounEdit
metal m (plural metales)
BretonEdit
NounEdit
metal m (plural metaloù)
InflectionEdit
CatalanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English metal. Doublet of metall.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal m (uncountable)
Further readingEdit
- “metal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
metal
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “metal, mine”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal n (singular definite metallet, plural indefinite metaller)
InflectionEdit
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | metal | metallet | metaller | metallerne |
genitive | metals | metallets | metallers | metallernes |
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DutchEdit
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NounEdit
metal m (uncountable)
- (music) metal (rock genre)
- Synonym: heavy metal
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FrenchEdit
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PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal m (uncountable)
- metal (music style)
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ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal m (invariable)
- (music) metal
- Synonym: heavy metal
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ metal in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old French metal, from Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal (plural metalles)
- metal (class of elements)
- metalwork (metal item)
- (mining) metal, ore
- (heraldry, rare) metal (class of tinctures)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “metal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle FrenchEdit
NounEdit
metal m (plural metaulx)
OccitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon). Attested from the 12th century.[1]
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Béarn) (file)
NounEdit
metal m (plural metals)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 380.
Further readingEdit
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin metallum, see above.
NounEdit
metal m (oblique plural metaus or metax or metals, nominative singular metaus or metax or metals, nominative plural metal)
- metal (material)
Old SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed with apocope from Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 ſi uence lo eſta piedra por ſu ṕṕedat.
- 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 ſi uence lo eſta piedra por ſu ṕṕedat.
- Idem, f. 21v.
- Et otroſſi ſi lo mezclan con eſtanno torna negro. ¬ ſi con plata lo mezclan recibe la blancura della ¬ aſſi 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 otroſſi ſi lo mezclan con eſtanno torna negro. ¬ ſi con plata lo mezclan recibe la blancura della ¬ aſſi faz con cada metal.
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 2r.
DescendantsEdit
- Spanish: metal
PiedmonteseEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal m (plural metaj)
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PolishEdit
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PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal m inan
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PortugueseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Old Portuguese metal, from Old Spanish metal, from Old Catalan metall, matall, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal m (plural metais)
- (chemistry) metal (any of a number of elements that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms)
- metal (any of a number of a number of hard but malleable materials consisting of metallic atoms)
- (poetic) money; wealth; riches
- (heraldry) white (argent) or yellow (or) tincture on a coat of arms
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Etymology 2Edit
Unadapted borrowing from English metal.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal m (uncountable)
- (music) metal; heavy metal
- Synonym: heavy metal
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RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French métal or German Metall.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal n (plural metale)
DeclensionEdit
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Further readingEdit
- metal in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mètāl m (Cyrillic spelling мѐта̄л)
DeclensionEdit
SloveneEdit
ParticipleEdit
métał
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Spanish metal, from Old French métal or Old Occitan metall, these from Latin metallum, from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
metal m (plural metales)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “metal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
TurkishEdit
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TurkmenEdit
NounEdit
metal (definite accusative [[{{{1}}}#Turkmen|?]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Turkmen|?]])