metal

metal is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc. Face value is 7 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 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.
2. noun. Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.
3. noun. A mine from which ores are taken.
4. noun. The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.
5. noun. Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.
6. noun. The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.
7. noun. The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.
8. noun. Glass in a state of fusion.
9. noun. The rails of a railroad.
10. transitive verb. To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.
11. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: alloy

12. noun. any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
13. verb. cover with metal
14. adjective. containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal- Ambrose Bierce

    "a metallic compound"

    "metallic luster"

    Synonyms: metallic

Synonyms

alloy, metallic

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in metal:

amlet

Common word forms

metals, metaled, metaler, metaling, metalise, metalize, metalled, metaller, metalling

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