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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. ømetal detector an electronic device giving a signal when it locates metal. metal fatigue fatigue (see FATIGUE n.
2) in metal. [ME f. OF metal or L metallum f. Gk metallon mine]
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