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metal

See also: Metal, métal, and metál

EnglishEdit

 
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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

NounEdit

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.
      • 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.
    2. 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 […].
    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.[1]
    6. (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
  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[2].
  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. (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?
  7. The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
  8. (UK, 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.
    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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TranslationsEdit

AdjectiveEdit

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.
      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
    • 2012 August, “Tested Bowling Balls”, in Front‎[1], number 171, ISSN 1464-4053, OCLC 1064594418, page 40:
      Top tip: Bowling gloves are for sissies, although they look metal as fuck.

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VerbEdit

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

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

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 1881, Rossiter W. Raymond, A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms
  2. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary

AlbanianEdit

NounEdit

metal m (definite singular metali)

  1. (chemistry) metal

Further readingEdit

  • “metal” on fjalorthi.com
  • metal in Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe at shkenca.org

AragoneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

metal m (plural metals)

  1. metal

ReferencesEdit

AsturianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

metal m (plural metales)

  1. metal

BretonEdit

NounEdit

metal m (plural metaloù)

  1. metal

InflectionEdit

  Mutation of metal  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard
singular metal vetal unchanged unchanged
plural metaloù vetaloù unchanged unchanged

CatalanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English metal. Doublet of metall.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

metal m (uncountable)

  1. (music) metal

Further readingEdit

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

metal

  1. masculine singular past participle of metat

DanishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /metal/, [meˈtˢal]

NounEdit

metal n (singular definite metallet, plural indefinite metaller)

  1. metal

InflectionEdit

Declension of metal
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative metal metallet metaller metallerne
genitive metals metallets metallers metallernes

Further readingEdit

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English metal.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.təl/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: me‧tal

NounEdit

metal m (uncountable)

  1. (music) metal (rock genre)
    Synonym: heavy metal

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FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

metal m (uncountable)

  1. metal (music style)

Derived termsEdit

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English metal.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

metal m (invariable)

  1. (music) metal
    Synonym: heavy metal

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 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

  • IPA(key): /mɛˈtaːl/, /ˈmɛtal/, /ˈmɛtəl/

NounEdit

metal (plural metalles)

  1. metal (class of elements)
  2. metalwork (metal item)
  3. (mining) metal, ore
  4. (heraldry, rare) metal (class of tinctures)

DescendantsEdit

  • English: metal, mettle
  • Scots: metal
  • → Welsh: metel

ReferencesEdit

Middle FrenchEdit

NounEdit

metal m (plural metaulx)

  1. metal

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)

  1. metal

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 380.

Further readingEdit

  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎[2], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 644.

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)

  1. metal (material)

Old SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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 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.
    • 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.

DescendantsEdit

PiedmonteseEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

metal m (plural metaj)

  1. metal

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PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin metallum.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

metal m inan

  1. metal
    Antonym: niemetal
  2. (heraldry) metal

DeclensionEdit

Declension of metal
singular plural
nominative metal metale
genitive metalu metali
dative metalowi metalom
accusative metal metale
instrumental metalem metalami
locative metalu metalach
vocative metalu metale

Derived termsEdit

adjectives
nouns

Further readingEdit

  • metal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • metal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

  • Rhymes: -al, -aw
  • Hyphenation: me‧tal

NounEdit

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. (poetic) money; wealth; riches
    Synonyms: riqueza, dinheiro
  4. (heraldry) white (argent) or yellow (or) tincture on a coat of arms
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Etymology 2Edit

Unadapted borrowing from English metal.

PronunciationEdit

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌmɛˈtɐl/ [ˌmɛˈtɐɫ], /mɨˈtal/ [mɨˈtaɫ]

NounEdit

metal m (uncountable)

  1. (music) metal; heavy metal
    Synonym: heavy metal
Derived termsEdit

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French métal or German Metall.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

metal n (plural metale)

  1. metal

DeclensionEdit

Declension of metal
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) metal metalul (niște) metale metalele
genitive/dative (unui) metal metalului (unor) metale metalelor
vocative metalule metalelor

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /mětaːl/
  • Hyphenation: me‧tal

NounEdit

mètāl m (Cyrillic spelling мѐта̄л)

  1. (chemistry) metal
    Synonym: kovina

DeclensionEdit

Declension of metal
singular plural
nominative mètāl metali
genitive metála metala
dative metalu metalima
accusative metal metale
vocative metale metali
locative metalu metalima
instrumental metalom metalima

SloveneEdit

ParticipleEdit

métał

  1. masculine singular l-participle of metáti

SpanishEdit

 
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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

  • IPA(key): /meˈtal/ [meˈt̪al]
  • Audio (Colombia)(file)
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: me‧tal

NounEdit

metal m (plural metales)

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

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French métal.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

metal (definite accusative metali, plural metaller)

  1. metal

TurkmenEdit

NounEdit

metal (definite accusative [[{{{1}}}#Turkmen|?]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Turkmen|?]])

  1. metal
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