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Definition of metal in English: metalnounPlural metals ˈmɛt(ə)lˈmɛdl mass noun1A solid material which is typically hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical and thermal conductivity (e.g. iron, gold, silver, and aluminium, and alloys such as steel) 金属 an adjustable pole made of metal count noun being a metal, aluminium readily conducts heat 铝是金属,所以导热性能好。 Example sentencesExamples - Plaster of Paris is widely used as a mold or model material in the metal and ceramic industries.
- Earthen materials like steel, metal and granite are hard to get these days.
- The ramp was metal, solid metal, and cold against Sekher's toes as they started up.
- It is the most ductile and malleable of all metals.
- The result was a new, hard metal, Bessemer steel, ideal for rail-making.
- This award-winning site has a number of sections relating to alkaline earth metals, transition metals, other metals and metalloids.
- It's made of metal, polyvinyl chloride pipe, wire mesh netting, and wood.
- She was the only girl in the class that could carry the big, solid metal poles by herself.
- Known as shape-memory materials, they are metal alloys or polymers that accomplish similar feats in different ways.
- This shining metal was not raw iron but hard steel, which bent the softer wrought-iron blades of the Gauls.
- The second door, made of a shiny metal resembling stainless steel, had a cold, menacing look and feel to it.
- Titanium exists in two allotropic forms, one of which is a dark gray, shiny metal.
- Anyway, amalgams are alloys that combine mercury and other metals in the periodic table.
- Reactive metals will react with nitric acid to give the metal nitrate and hydrogen gas.
- Common reductants are the active metals, hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, carbon, carbon monoxide, and sulfurous acid.
- I tried an unlocking spell on my prison door, then kicking it with my dragora legs, but the solid metal door remained securely shut.
- Pyrotechnicians started putting metal chlorides in the fireworks to produce a dazzling array of color.
- Bronze rapidly became a very popular metal since it was harder and more durable than either copper or tin by itself.
- The thermal conductivity of this metal is, like electrical conductivity, determined largely by the free electrons.
- The door was made of metal and had long, vertical bars on it instead of solid metal like the other doors that could be found in the rest of the building.
- 1.1metals The steel tracks of a railway.
(铁路的)钢轨 the locomotive is presently being made ready for operation over Network SouthEast metals - 1.2Heraldry Gold and silver (as tinctures in blazoning).
〔纹章〕金属色(装饰纹章时用作色彩的金和银色) Example sentencesExamples - In cases where the mounting or backing of the enamel is metal (silver or gold), matching is not really important.
2Broken stone for use in making roads. 筑路碎石 the work also involves dealing with rock aggregates for potential use as suitable road metal Example sentencesExamples - 96 Drains were usually constructed 18 in. square and were built with lime-mortared masonry walls that supported flat slab stones beneath the road metal.
- For all we knew they could have just been road metal.
- The work includes blasting and crushing rock from a quarry and laying the road metal produced on the track and leveling the surface.
- A greater width and depth of road metal was used on roads closer to Aberdeen that carried a larger volume of traffic.
- In common with other specifications for road construction the contractors had to remove all ‘fixed stones’ from the bed on which road metal was laid.
- The top of the Chamberlain's Brook is most accessible in a road metal quarry located south of Killigrews village and 7.0 km east of the intersection of Red Bridge Road with coastal Rte. 60.
3Molten glass before it is blown or cast. 玻璃液 Example sentencesExamples - In 1952 he thought about using the bed of molten metal to form the flat glass, eliminating altogether the need for the rollers.
4Heavy metal or similar rock music. 重金属音乐(或类似的摇滚乐) industrial music is also a blend of metal and techno with modifier crunching power-trio metal Example sentencesExamples - But the crunchy metal riffs with squeals of harmonic distortion can only carry an album for so long, and 55 minutes is way beyond that time.
- Thanks to hourly lineup changes, the music morphs from mid-tempo rock to jazzy reggae to metal.
- An original sound raging from bluesy to metal to creepy folk music, this is extremely well done.
- Their unique style, in many ways, is actually closer to free jazz or classical than metal.
- This metal / techno/pastiche music is what really directs the film, what makes the images move.
- Norwegian punk rockers blur the lines of rock, metal and punk rock with their own creation, death punk.
- Hooky choruses, instrumentation as background, and compact songwriting are trademarks of pop music, not metal.
- Their freshness brings a certain quality to metal music which can often be overlooked.
- I'd lined up other discs just in case it, in fact, turned out to be Scandinavian doom metal or a cunning front for an area smooth jazz combo.
- The band has always had its own unique style to play metal with its powerful lyrics and powerful metal riffs.
- Unless you're into some seriously hard-core rap, hip hop or metal, you'll need to cut the sub way back to create the right balance.
- But in reality, these guys have always been more of a '60s frat rock band with metal riffs.
- Tossing in elements of blues, rock, glam-rock, soul and metal, it's a wildly extravagant affair that is likely to put off as many people as it delights.
- In a way, writing about metal is easier than writing about pop music, and often much more fun.
- But one of my biggest disappointments is that I rarely find occasions to share my love of metal with my indie rock friends.
- His brand of barroom rock 'n' blues caught on huge at a time when punk, new wave and metal were stripping down the pretense of prog rock.
- They take a bunch of dead-weight lead and spin it into the most beautiful, yet extreme, metal music around.
- When I left the army I dived into metal and rock music headfirst.
- I listen to hardcore, metal, and rock music, so listening to music when I have a really bad headache makes it worse.
- I felt that the heart of the music is more traditional metal, and a change in format would give it a modern edge.
verbmetals, metalling, metaling, metaled, metalled ˈmɛt(ə)lˈmɛdl [with object]1as adjective metalledMade from or coated with metal. 用金属做;用金属包 a range of metalled key rings 各式各样的金属钥匙环。 Example sentencesExamples - The main entrance to Hillyfields is now through an access set between splayed walls which are constructed across the disputed strip almost up to the edge of the metalled driveway.
- The world's highest stretch of metalled road, running from Manali to Ladakh, was built by the Tibetans.
- Then we spilt out onto the metalled road in Bethlehem, and I wandered past the ranks of closed shops.
- Continue straight along the enclosed track, which soon becomes a metalled lane, and follow this all the way back down into Gargrave.
- Even today, no one has tried to construct a metalled road along the coast between Argos and Monemvasia: the hills are simply too steep and impassable.
- It is also often assumed that the road cross-section conforms to a regular design standard, with a metalled width of 20 ft.
- Coins suggest the bridge, thought to have been replaced by a metalled surface as the channel silted up, was built cAD200-400.
- The hot, high Sun in the middle of an azure blue wash - straight out of a David Hockney painting, the metal men stood erect, gazing out to sea in all their metalled nakedness.
- He said till such time as the metalled road was constructed, a fair-weather communication link be ensured.
- When the town was completely out of sight, the chauffeur drove down a road which within only a few miles lost its metalled base and crumbled into rough cobbles.
- When one entered the city, the metalled roads and high-rise buildings conveyed the feeling of universal city.
- In fact, our unabashed dictionary describes a road as a strip of metalled surface connecting potholes.
- These we passed on the way up, an ascent made easy to Nab Farm by a metalled track.
- Many of the houses are linked to the street by short lengths of metalled or flagstone pathway, like little garden paths.
- The route drops to a dead-end road called Smearbottom Lane further uphill, but downhill it becomes Hawthorns Lane and we took its very steep and metalled surface.
- Stevens said it was proposed to leave the metalled track in place after the work was completed which, he said, would be an advantage for people walking through Scotchell.
- On the outside of the road are deep precipices; sometimes there are a few metres of rough ground between the metalled surface and the edge, but more often not.
- Said climb is up to Fremington Edge, the landmass that dominates Reeth, an ascent to 1,500 feet, quite steep, on metalled dead-end road barely wide enough for a car for the first mile.
- Access to Tockwith must be by the authorised route only, with great care being taken when turning into the rough lane from the metalled road.
- As the car swings onto the East Coast Road, on the way back to Chennai, we find a man-lion dancing on the sandy strip between kiosks advertising Kodak film and ‘Frooti’, and the metalled speedway.
2usually as adjective metalledBritish Make or mend (a road) with road metal. 〈英〉用碎石筑(路);用碎石修(路) follow the metalled road for about 200 yards 沿着碎石路约走200码。 the road was metalled and tolls charged for the upkeep Example sentencesExamples - All of the stone and other material used in metalling this road had to be brought from India.
- I mean [the Defendants] to have the fullest right of metalling the road and making it the best road they can to meet the circumstances.
- In the Montagne Noire area iron slag was used for road metalling, providing a very hard surface that was resistant to any kind of degradation.
- Finally in February 1875 the government called tenders for the ‘forming, building culverts, making catch drains and metalling on the road through Coromandel Valley’.
- In one part of the country the roads are metalled and well-signposted, but as soon as your car enters another borough, the dual carriageway abruptly becomes a pot-holed dirt-track.
Synonyms cover, surface, floor, top, finish, concrete, concrete over, asphalt, flag, tile, tar, tarmac
OriginMiddle English: from Old French metal or Latin metallum, from Greek metallon 'mine, quarry, or metal'. The words metal and mettle (early 17th century) were once the same. Both could refer to a physical material and to a quality. In the 17th century the quality came to be particularly ‘vigour, spiritedness’, originally of horses but later also referring to people. By the mid 18th century the form mettle was being restricted to this, and metal to the material. Their ultimate origin is Greek metallon ‘mine, quarry, metal’.
Rhymesfettle, kettle, mettle, nettle, petal, Popocatépetl, settle Definition of metal in US English: metalnounˈmɛdlˈmedl 1A solid material that is typically hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical and thermal conductivity (e.g., iron, gold, silver, copper, and aluminum, and alloys such as brass and steel) 金属 being a metal, aluminum readily conducts heat 铝是金属,所以导热性能好。 vessels made of ceramics or metal 用瓷器或金属做的容器。 Example sentencesExamples - Bronze rapidly became a very popular metal since it was harder and more durable than either copper or tin by itself.
- This shining metal was not raw iron but hard steel, which bent the softer wrought-iron blades of the Gauls.
- It's made of metal, polyvinyl chloride pipe, wire mesh netting, and wood.
- Titanium exists in two allotropic forms, one of which is a dark gray, shiny metal.
- The door was made of metal and had long, vertical bars on it instead of solid metal like the other doors that could be found in the rest of the building.
- Earthen materials like steel, metal and granite are hard to get these days.
- Known as shape-memory materials, they are metal alloys or polymers that accomplish similar feats in different ways.
- Plaster of Paris is widely used as a mold or model material in the metal and ceramic industries.
- The second door, made of a shiny metal resembling stainless steel, had a cold, menacing look and feel to it.
- The result was a new, hard metal, Bessemer steel, ideal for rail-making.
- The ramp was metal, solid metal, and cold against Sekher's toes as they started up.
- I tried an unlocking spell on my prison door, then kicking it with my dragora legs, but the solid metal door remained securely shut.
- The thermal conductivity of this metal is, like electrical conductivity, determined largely by the free electrons.
- It is the most ductile and malleable of all metals.
- Reactive metals will react with nitric acid to give the metal nitrate and hydrogen gas.
- Common reductants are the active metals, hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, carbon, carbon monoxide, and sulfurous acid.
- Pyrotechnicians started putting metal chlorides in the fireworks to produce a dazzling array of color.
- Anyway, amalgams are alloys that combine mercury and other metals in the periodic table.
- She was the only girl in the class that could carry the big, solid metal poles by herself.
- This award-winning site has a number of sections relating to alkaline earth metals, transition metals, other metals and metalloids.
- 1.1Heraldry Gold and silver (as tinctures in blazoning).
〔纹章〕金属色(装饰纹章时用作色彩的金和银色) Example sentencesExamples - In cases where the mounting or backing of the enamel is metal (silver or gold), matching is not really important.
2Broken stone for use in making roads. 筑路碎石 Example sentencesExamples - 96 Drains were usually constructed 18 in. square and were built with lime-mortared masonry walls that supported flat slab stones beneath the road metal.
- The top of the Chamberlain's Brook is most accessible in a road metal quarry located south of Killigrews village and 7.0 km east of the intersection of Red Bridge Road with coastal Rte. 60.
- For all we knew they could have just been road metal.
- A greater width and depth of road metal was used on roads closer to Aberdeen that carried a larger volume of traffic.
- In common with other specifications for road construction the contractors had to remove all ‘fixed stones’ from the bed on which road metal was laid.
- The work includes blasting and crushing rock from a quarry and laying the road metal produced on the track and leveling the surface.
3Molten glass before it is blown or cast. 玻璃液 Example sentencesExamples - In 1952 he thought about using the bed of molten metal to form the flat glass, eliminating altogether the need for the rollers.
4Heavy metal or similar rock music. 重金属音乐(或类似的摇滚乐) Example sentencesExamples - But in reality, these guys have always been more of a '60s frat rock band with metal riffs.
- But the crunchy metal riffs with squeals of harmonic distortion can only carry an album for so long, and 55 minutes is way beyond that time.
- When I left the army I dived into metal and rock music headfirst.
- I'd lined up other discs just in case it, in fact, turned out to be Scandinavian doom metal or a cunning front for an area smooth jazz combo.
- Their unique style, in many ways, is actually closer to free jazz or classical than metal.
- In a way, writing about metal is easier than writing about pop music, and often much more fun.
- Norwegian punk rockers blur the lines of rock, metal and punk rock with their own creation, death punk.
- His brand of barroom rock 'n' blues caught on huge at a time when punk, new wave and metal were stripping down the pretense of prog rock.
- But one of my biggest disappointments is that I rarely find occasions to share my love of metal with my indie rock friends.
- Hooky choruses, instrumentation as background, and compact songwriting are trademarks of pop music, not metal.
- They take a bunch of dead-weight lead and spin it into the most beautiful, yet extreme, metal music around.
- I felt that the heart of the music is more traditional metal, and a change in format would give it a modern edge.
- I listen to hardcore, metal, and rock music, so listening to music when I have a really bad headache makes it worse.
- The band has always had its own unique style to play metal with its powerful lyrics and powerful metal riffs.
- Tossing in elements of blues, rock, glam-rock, soul and metal, it's a wildly extravagant affair that is likely to put off as many people as it delights.
- Unless you're into some seriously hard-core rap, hip hop or metal, you'll need to cut the sub way back to create the right balance.
- Their freshness brings a certain quality to metal music which can often be overlooked.
- Thanks to hourly lineup changes, the music morphs from mid-tempo rock to jazzy reggae to metal.
- An original sound raging from bluesy to metal to creepy folk music, this is extremely well done.
- This metal / techno/pastiche music is what really directs the film, what makes the images move.
verbˈmɛdlˈmedl [with object]1Make out of or coat with metal. 用金属做;用金属包 各式各样的金属钥匙环。 Example sentencesExamples - As the car swings onto the East Coast Road, on the way back to Chennai, we find a man-lion dancing on the sandy strip between kiosks advertising Kodak film and ‘Frooti’, and the metalled speedway.
- In fact, our unabashed dictionary describes a road as a strip of metalled surface connecting potholes.
- The route drops to a dead-end road called Smearbottom Lane further uphill, but downhill it becomes Hawthorns Lane and we took its very steep and metalled surface.
- Coins suggest the bridge, thought to have been replaced by a metalled surface as the channel silted up, was built cAD200-400.
- Then we spilt out onto the metalled road in Bethlehem, and I wandered past the ranks of closed shops.
- Stevens said it was proposed to leave the metalled track in place after the work was completed which, he said, would be an advantage for people walking through Scotchell.
- He said till such time as the metalled road was constructed, a fair-weather communication link be ensured.
- Even today, no one has tried to construct a metalled road along the coast between Argos and Monemvasia: the hills are simply too steep and impassable.
- The world's highest stretch of metalled road, running from Manali to Ladakh, was built by the Tibetans.
- Access to Tockwith must be by the authorised route only, with great care being taken when turning into the rough lane from the metalled road.
- Many of the houses are linked to the street by short lengths of metalled or flagstone pathway, like little garden paths.
- It is also often assumed that the road cross-section conforms to a regular design standard, with a metalled width of 20 ft.
- Continue straight along the enclosed track, which soon becomes a metalled lane, and follow this all the way back down into Gargrave.
- The main entrance to Hillyfields is now through an access set between splayed walls which are constructed across the disputed strip almost up to the edge of the metalled driveway.
- Said climb is up to Fremington Edge, the landmass that dominates Reeth, an ascent to 1,500 feet, quite steep, on metalled dead-end road barely wide enough for a car for the first mile.
- When the town was completely out of sight, the chauffeur drove down a road which within only a few miles lost its metalled base and crumbled into rough cobbles.
- The hot, high Sun in the middle of an azure blue wash - straight out of a David Hockney painting, the metal men stood erect, gazing out to sea in all their metalled nakedness.
- On the outside of the road are deep precipices; sometimes there are a few metres of rough ground between the metalled surface and the edge, but more often not.
- When one entered the city, the metalled roads and high-rise buildings conveyed the feeling of universal city.
- These we passed on the way up, an ascent made easy to Nab Farm by a metalled track.
2British Make or mend (a road) with road metal. 〈英〉用碎石筑(路);用碎石修(路) follow the metalled road for about 200 yards 沿着碎石路约走200码。 Example sentencesExamples - Finally in February 1875 the government called tenders for the ‘forming, building culverts, making catch drains and metalling on the road through Coromandel Valley’.
- I mean [the Defendants] to have the fullest right of metalling the road and making it the best road they can to meet the circumstances.
- In the Montagne Noire area iron slag was used for road metalling, providing a very hard surface that was resistant to any kind of degradation.
- In one part of the country the roads are metalled and well-signposted, but as soon as your car enters another borough, the dual carriageway abruptly becomes a pot-holed dirt-track.
- All of the stone and other material used in metalling this road had to be brought from India.
Synonyms cover, surface, floor, top, finish, concrete, concrete over, asphalt, flag, tile, tar, tarmac
OriginMiddle English: from Old French metal or Latin metallum, from Greek metallon ‘mine, quarry, or metal’. |