metal
/ˈmɛ.təl/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
noun
A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core."
- "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[…]."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: metal, metallum, μέταλλον