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alloy
alloy is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
- 3transitive verb
A baser metal mixed with a finer.
- 4transitive verb
Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
- 5transitive verb
To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
- 6transitive verb
To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
- 7transitive verb
To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
- 8transitive verb
To form a metallic compound.
- 9noun
the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
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- 10noun
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"
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- 11verb
make an alloy of
- 12verb
lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
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