Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - metal
Metal
metal
n., adj., & v. --n. 1 a any of a class of chemical elements such as gold, silver, iron, and tin, usu. lustrous ductile solids and good conductors of heat and electricity and forming basic oxides. b an alloy of any of these. 2 material used for making glass, in a molten state. 3 Heraldry gold or silver as tincture. 4 (in pl.) the rails of a railway line. 5 = road-metal (see ROAD(1)). --adj. made of metal. --v.tr. (metalled, metalling; US metaled, metaling) 1 provide or fit with metal. 2 Brit. make or mend (a road) with road-metal. Phrases and idioms metal detector an electronic device giving a signal when it locates metal. metal fatigue fatigue (see FATIGUE n. 2) in metal. Etymology: ME f. OF metal or L metallum f. Gk metallon mine
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ~lum mine, ~, from Greek ~lon Date: 14th century any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides, 2. mettle 1a, the substance out of which a person or thing is made, glass in its molten state, 4. printing type ~, matter set in ~ type, road ~, heavy ~, II. transitive verb (-aled or -alled; -aling or -alling) Date: 1617 to cover or furnish with ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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