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metal 音标拼音: [m'ɛtəl] n. 金属,金属制品,合金,本质,质料
a. 金属制的
vt. 以金属覆盖 金属,金属制品,合金,本质,质料金属制的以金属覆盖 metal金属 metal adj 1: containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal; " a metallic compound"; " metallic luster"; " the strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades"- Ambrose Bierce [ synonym: { metallic}, { metal( a)}] [ ant: { nonmetal}, { nonmetallic}] n 1: any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. [ synonym: { metallic element}, { metal}] 2: 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" [ synonym: { alloy}, { metal}] v 1: cover with metalMetal \ Met" al\ (? or ?; 277), n. [ F. m[' e] tal, L. metallum metal, mine, Gr. ? mine; cf. Gr. ? to search after. Cf. { Mettle}, { Medal}.] 1. ( Chem.) 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. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Popularly, the name is applied to certain hard, fusible metals, as gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, zinc, nickel, etc., and also to the mixed metals, or metallic alloys, as brass, bronze, steel, bell metal, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners. -- Raymond. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A mine from which ores are taken. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Slaves . . . and persons condemned to metals. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 4. The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper. [ 1913 Webster] Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Courage; spirit; mettle. See { Mettle}. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The allusion is to the temper of the metal of a sword blade. -- Skeat. [ 1913 Webster] 6. The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads. [ 1913 Webster] 7. The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war. [ 1913 Webster] 8. Glass in a state of fusion. -- Knight. [ 1913 Webster] 9. pl. The rails of a railroad. [ Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] { Base metal} ( Chem.), any one of the metals, as iron, lead, etc., which are readily tarnished or oxidized, in contrast with the noble metals. In general, a metal of small value, as compared with gold or silver. { Fusible metal} ( Metal.), a very fusible alloy, usually consisting of bismuth with lead, tin, or cadmium. { Heavy metals} ( Chem.), the metallic elements not included in the groups of the alkalies, alkaline earths, or the earths; specifically, the heavy metals, as gold, mercury, platinum, lead, silver, etc. { Light metals} ( Chem.), the metallic elements of the alkali and alkaline earth groups, as sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, etc.; also, sometimes, the metals of the earths, as aluminium. { Muntz metal}, an alloy for sheathing and other purposes, consisting of about sixty per cent of copper, and forty of zinc. Sometimes a little lead is added. It is named from the inventor. { Prince' s metal} ( Old Chem.), an alloy resembling brass, consisting of three parts of copper to one of zinc; -- also called { Prince Rupert' s metal}. [ 1913 Webster]
Metal \ Met" al\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Metaled} (? or ?) or { Metalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Metaling} or { Metalling}.] To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship' s bottom; to metal a road. [ 1913 Webster] 210 Moby Thesaurus words for " metal": Dutch foil, achievement, alerion, aluminum, aluminum foil, americium, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, asphalt, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, barium, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, beryllium, billet, bismuth, blacktop, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, bullion, cadency mark, cadmium, calcium, canton, carpet, causeway, cement, cerium, cesium, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, chrome, chromium, coat of arms, cobalt, cobblestone, cockatrice, concrete, copper, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, dysprosium, eagle, earth metals, erbium, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, europium, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flag, flanch, fleur- de- lis, floor, fret, fur, fusil, gadolinium, gallium, garland, germanium, gold, gold dust, gold foil, gold leaf, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, holmium, honor point, impalement, impaling, indium, inescutcheon, iridium, iron, label, lanthanum, lead, lead foil, lion, lithium, lozenge, lutetium, magnesia, magnesium, manganese, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mercury, metal foil, metal leaf, metalleity, metallic, metallicity, metallics, metallike, metalline, metalloid, metalware, metalwork, molybdenum, motto, mullet, native metals, neodymium, nickel, niobium, noble metals, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, organometallic, orle, osmium, pale, palladium, paly, pave, pean, pebble, pheon, phosphorus, platinum, polonium, potassium, praseodymium, precious metals, promethium, protactinium, purpure, quarter, quartering, radium, rare metals, rhenium, rose, rubidium, ruthenium, sable, saltire, samarium, scandium, scutcheon, semimetal, shield, silver, silver foil, sodium, spread eagle, strontium, subordinary, tantalum, tar, technetium, tenne, terbium, thallium, thulium, tin, tincture, tinfoil, titanium, torse, tressure, tungsten, unicorn, uranium, vair, vanadium, vert, wolfram, wreath, yale, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium |
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