alloy
alloy has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.
Definitions
- v. t.. Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
- v. t.. The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
- v. t.. A baser metal mixed with a finer.
- v. t.. Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
- v. t.. To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
- v. t.. To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
- v. t.. To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
- v. t.. To form a metallic compound.
- n.. the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
- n.. a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper"
- v.. make an alloy of
- v.. lower in value by increasing the base-metal content