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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
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.
- 3noun
A mine from which ores are taken.
- 4noun
The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.
- 5noun
Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.
- 6noun
The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.
- 7noun
The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.
- 8noun
Glass in a state of fusion.
- 9noun
The rails of a railroad.
- 10transitive verb
To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.
- 11noun
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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- 12noun
any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
- 13verb
cover with metal
- 14adjective
containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal- Ambrose Bierce
"a metallic compound"
"metallic luster"
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