Definition of metal

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Metal (n.) The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper..

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Disk :: Disk (n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper..
Money :: Money (n.) A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin..
Abacinate :: Abacinate (v. t.) To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.
Fin :: Fin (n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
Blende :: Blende (n.) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster..
Metaleptic :: Metaleptic (a.) Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.
Orsedue :: Orsedue (n.) Leaf metal of bronze; Dutch metal. See under Dutch.
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup..
Grommet :: Grommet (n.) A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet..
Plating :: Plating (n.) The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition..
Pyrolusite :: Pyrolusite (n.) Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an iron-black or dark steel-gray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name)..
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action..
Davyum :: Davyum (n.) A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.
Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
Revivification :: Revivification (n.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
Plate :: Plate (n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate..
Fid :: Fid (n.) A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything..
Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore..
Collet :: Collet (n.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel..
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