alloy
/ˈæ.lɔɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.61 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
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2
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4
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Meaning
noun
A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "gold without alloy"
- "Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, without alloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have[…]"
- "Metrodorus said that in sadnesse there is some aloy of pleasure."
- "The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet’s welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security."
- "The fatal word was never heard, and their happiness seemed without alloy."
- "SETH KITANGE TELEVISION AND RADIO Upheaval at CBS. […] Bill Moyers, a CBS News commentator and special correspondent, expressed his dismay in an interview with Newsweek in which he said, “Television news has never been pure. It has always been an alloy of journalism and show business.”"
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- Source language: Old French
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:Category:Alloys
Alloys in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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