Definition of metallic in English:

metallic

adjective mɪˈtalɪkməˈtælɪk

1Relating to or resembling metal or metals.
金属的，金属般的
metallic alloys
合金。
a curious metallic taste
奇怪的金属味道。
Example sentencesExamples
- Almost all of the popular family saloons now have a two-door, sportier-looking sibling that is usually dressed up in alloys and metallic paint.
- It generally requires special treatment to mitigate its rather bitter, metallic taste.
- The heavier metallic elements, some of which living systems also require, are formed only in very massive stars during supernova explosions.
- But in any case there is no such thing - chlorine is simply not an element that can form a metallic alloy, as opposed to an ionic compound with a metal.
- Seeds and plants on the earth find numerous metallic salts and elements essential for their growth here in these rain drops.
- Some people find that meat has a metallic taste.
- This is a very attractive car and, with the metallic paint and standard alloys, it looks even better.
- Instead of the usual metallic zinc taste it was more like something sweet, like syrup or nectar.
- This distinction is always made for the element carbon, and there is no scientific justification for treating metallic elements differently.
- As a result, some of the elements of the metal or alloy change from a metallic state into a non-metallic state.
- Hailey bit down on her lip in an effort to stop another dam of tears threatening to break loose; tasting metallic blood and her salty tears intermingle.
- The walls and the podiums were made of some kind of shiny metallic, silver alloy.
- I coughed and tasted the metallic bitterness of blood.
- To keep caviar from absorbing a slight metallic taste from metal servers and utensils, present it on glass, shell, or bone.
- The reduced metal typically forms a metallic alloy on the cathode.
- The rare earth elements comprise a group of 17 trivalent metallic elements with similar chemical properties.
- Just to clarify, antimony is a metallic element on the periodic table.
- The metallic taste was in his mouth, making him gag.
- Early symptoms, such as a metallic taste, tinnitus, lightheadedness, and confusion, are followed by tremors and shivering.
- Heavy metals are metallic elements that have a high atomic number and are poisonous to living organisms.
1. 1.1 (of sound) resembling that produced by metal objects striking each other; sharp and ringing.
  （声音）金属似的；刺耳的
  the blade locked into place with a heavy metallic clunk
  Example sentencesExamples
  For starters the three M - 16s bumped into each other with metallic clicks.
  Gamblers aren't shying away from them, though some dedicated coin droppers dislike the loss of the metallic sounds of money changing hands.
  It reached back, pulling out a sword with the sound of metal on the sheath, a ringing, metallic sound that foretold doom.
  Victor's flaming sword clashed against the blackness of Jack's sword with a sharp metallic clang.
  I will not have the background music be loud drums and metallic sounds that makes it impossible for the audience to hear what is being said.
  The sound can be a raucous metallic clangour or it can be as soft as notes on velvet.
  With a gasp, his head jerked left as a metallic sound echoed through the room.
  At that precise moment, a gong near the entrance way was sounded, the metallic clang echoing around the Great Hall.
  She started to run her fingers though my hair and just when it was starting to get exciting a loud metallic sound echoed off the walls.
  Now and again, you could hear the unmistakable metallic sound of snow shovels banging into concrete sidewalks, along with the deep rumble of a passing plow.
  They all checked their guns and loaded them to a collection of clicks and metallic sounds.
  The figure laughs and I cringe at the raucous, metallic sound that sounds from the image of my mouth.
  It clanged to the ground making a tinny metallic sound.
  There was a confusion of footsteps as the Russian boys barreled down the steps, still calling to each other, and then the metallic sound repeated itself.
  When alarmed they utter a sharp metallic clinking sound rather like that made by a hammer striking an anvil.
  A metallic buzz sounded from the far corner of the workroom.
  A sharp metallic clang could be heard, echoing throughout the whole forest stirring up many different animals from even miles away.
  There are a lot of echoes, for instance, and these either stretch the small metallic sounds out into drones or create sharp, stuttering rhythms.
  The loud metallic sound is startling and helps add impact to your verbal correction.
  He heard a sharp, metallic sound that made his blood run cold through his veins.
  Synonyms
  tinny, jangling, jangly, jingling, jingly, plinky
  grating, harsh, jarring, dissonant, raucous
2. 1.2 (of a person's voice) emanating via an electronic medium.
  （嗓音）电子扩大的
  a metallic voice rasped tinnily from a speaker
  一个电子扩大的嗓音从隐藏着的扩音器中刺耳地传出。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The voice which erupted was metallic in nature and seemed much older than Chrome herself even was.
  He smiles up at her and the metallic voice simply says, ‘Hello.’
  His voice was slightly metallic, air whistling through a trachea-ring.
  Brightly colored birds flew across the sky, calling out in metallic sitar voices, and Seiriô watched them.
  ‘Step out of the room with your hands raised and you will note be harmed,’ a cold, metallic voice commanded.
  Flames will engulf your feet, roasting them with agonizing slowness while a grating metallic voice repeatedly says the name and slogan of a product.
  ‘How strange’ the figure said in a raspy metallic voice, not dissimilar to X's.
  ‘This area is off-limits to tourists at the moment,’ it intoned in a metallic voice.
  His voice had a metallic quality as if the modulation was slightly out of sequence.
  The strong yet soothing metallic voice filled the room.
  ‘If I am to take over the world, I will do it without waiting so long,’ said the Ruler in a deep metallic voice.
  Would the recording be of a metallic grating voice?
  A sharp voice, hard and metallic, spoke to the professor, biting off each word as if it were chewing its sentences.
  It swung open with a heavy metallic moan, and I was shoved inside the dark room.
  Her laugh was metallic like her smile, and I wondered what she was thinking.
  It stated more that asked in a hissing, metallic voice.
  Then a metallic voice came through the speakers.
  ‘Royal guard please come in,’ a metallic voice said into Nathan's communicator.
  The metallic voice from the square grill above the buzzer interrupted my deliberations.
  The taller one spoke next, breaking the silence with his voice echoing throughout the metallic rafters high above them.
3. 1.3 Having the lustre of metal; iridescent.
  金属般光亮的，有金属光泽的
  a beautiful metallic green sports car
  一辆漂亮的闪亮绿色赛车。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Arowanas come in three shades, silver, metallic green and gold.
  There are mallards galore, the males with their metallic green heads and the females a dowdy brown, and busy little black scaups, bobbing like bath toys.
  The latter mineral, a sulphide of iron, has a shiny metallic lustre and was often mistaken for gold itself: it is the infamous fool's gold.
  She frowned as she saw a tall, burgundy-haired vampire dressed in a bright metallic green laced up top and bell bottoms walk up behind the elfin boy.
  Trochilines often have iridescent feathers of metallic red, orange, green and blue.
  Bright green metallic fronds, in the shape of palm trees, still branch out from their stands.
  Officers said a ‘suspicious’ light green or light blue metallic Ford Focus had been seen in the area before the break in.
  Since then the metallic green Asian beetle has destroyed six million trees in Michigan.
  I was completely encased head to toe in metallic green Lycra and nobody cared.
  Her fur, a deep blue-grey, had a softness that belied its almost metallic lustre.
  He ran down the metallic green hallway, the echo of his footfalls bouncing from wall to wall.
  Does he remember the metallic green Butterfly male that grabbed his hand in the dark?
  It's a brilliant metallic green beetle, about one-half inch long and about a quarter of an inch wide, so it's pretty good-sized.
  Its particles have a dull metallic lustre, far less brilliant than that of gold.
  He turned around, his metallic green tights glinting in the sunlight, his open vest with vines stitched on only one side.
  He picked a dark-aqua guitar that was iridescent and metallic.
  By the time we reach our second dive site, at Penguin Cove, the sun is shining and the water has brightened to an almost metallic green.
  One of the girls wearing a metallic green jacket spotted Zack and ran over to him.
  It also has a strange green, metallic note at its heart.
  They have large, prominent eyes, and metallic green leathery forewings with small light spots and coppery-green legs.
  Synonyms
  metallized, burnished
  shiny, gleaming, glossy, lustrous, pearlescent, polished

noun mɪˈtalɪkməˈtælɪk

usually metallics

A paint, fabric, or colour with a metallic sheen.
金属色漆；金属色织物；金属色
ultra-bright solid colours, pearls, metallics, and more
Example sentencesExamples
- Silver is still desirable, but other metallics and copper tones in costume jewellery are making inroads.
- Unfortunately, the range of colors, including metallics, is in need of further development.
- Ancient Spice is a Bohemian look blending metallics with the warmth and vibrancy of powdered, spicy shades.
- The export sales manager, noted that the direction in trims was to ‘no-color’ effects such as earth tones, metallics and trims that fit into the silk fabric resurgence.
- Color trends on the horizon include the significant rise in the use of color ‘effects’ like metallics, opalescents and colors that change depending on the light sources.
- Dressier varieties for evening offer slimmer styles in metallics, patent leathers and bold colors.
- About five years ago, our designers allowed people to select from a variety of very bold, bright colors: greens, oranges, yellows as well as metallics with a special hue, things like liquid crystal paint.
- ‘We keep our suedes, textures, metallics and fabrics intermingled with rag mats,’ said Christine Knoll.
- According to Richard Smith, sales manager and store manager, people want metallics with texture and novelty.
- Christine Brown of Toyota says that in focus groups, buyers under 35 say they consider metallics as luxurious and futuristic.
- He believed that more metallics could be created by adding amounts of the four coloured inks used in every printing press to a single base ink containing a silver pigment.
- I feel that metallics add the three-dimensional quality which reflects the light.
- Iridescence - and similar effects such as metallics, pearlescence, and colors that change according to light - are finding their way into new products.
- Metallics and more metallics will shimmer and shine on many diverse materials.
- She likes to experiment with composition leaf, 22K gold, silver leaf, combinations of metallics, irridescents, and interference paints, although acrylics are still her passion.
- There also are burnished metallics and grass cloths in boldly scaled weaves.
- White, metallics and other washed out colours, (such as grey and khaki) dominated the collection.
- Sure enough, she tossed the reds and metallics aside, but I still thought she looked pretty.
- Cohen also notes that pearlized pigments and metallics in eye shadows do not affect shelf life.
- The problem with metallics, however, is that they can't be dry-cleaned, nor are these hand-crafted costumes machine washable.

Derivatives

metallically

adverb

I pass between mighty sentinel-like pines and come out at a crest with Wellington City below to my left and the Harbour glittering metallically beyond.
Example sentencesExamples
- The chair was still ringing metallically from the impact.
- ‘Apology accepted’ I would breath metallically at her lifeless form.
- He took a bunch of pictures with it, and sure enough, they too look as metallically eerie and ghostlike as if they'd been lost in archives for a century.
- The warm, jovial man that had met us at the drawbridge now had solidified, becoming a cold-hearted sentinel that seemed to march metallically across the carpeted floor.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek metallikos, from metallon (see metal).

Rhymes

Alec, cephalic, encephalic, Gallic, intervallic, italic, medallic, mesocephalic, phallic, Salic, tantalic, Uralic, Vandalic

Definition of metallic in US English:

metallic

adjectiveməˈtalikməˈtælɪk

1Relating to or resembling metal or metals.
金属的，金属般的
metallic alloys
合金。
a curious metallic taste
奇怪的金属味道。
Example sentencesExamples
- This distinction is always made for the element carbon, and there is no scientific justification for treating metallic elements differently.
- The walls and the podiums were made of some kind of shiny metallic, silver alloy.
- But in any case there is no such thing - chlorine is simply not an element that can form a metallic alloy, as opposed to an ionic compound with a metal.
- Some people find that meat has a metallic taste.
- The rare earth elements comprise a group of 17 trivalent metallic elements with similar chemical properties.
- As a result, some of the elements of the metal or alloy change from a metallic state into a non-metallic state.
- Early symptoms, such as a metallic taste, tinnitus, lightheadedness, and confusion, are followed by tremors and shivering.
- The metallic taste was in his mouth, making him gag.
- It generally requires special treatment to mitigate its rather bitter, metallic taste.
- I coughed and tasted the metallic bitterness of blood.
- Hailey bit down on her lip in an effort to stop another dam of tears threatening to break loose; tasting metallic blood and her salty tears intermingle.
- To keep caviar from absorbing a slight metallic taste from metal servers and utensils, present it on glass, shell, or bone.
- Instead of the usual metallic zinc taste it was more like something sweet, like syrup or nectar.
- Heavy metals are metallic elements that have a high atomic number and are poisonous to living organisms.
- Just to clarify, antimony is a metallic element on the periodic table.
- The reduced metal typically forms a metallic alloy on the cathode.
- Almost all of the popular family saloons now have a two-door, sportier-looking sibling that is usually dressed up in alloys and metallic paint.
- This is a very attractive car and, with the metallic paint and standard alloys, it looks even better.
- Seeds and plants on the earth find numerous metallic salts and elements essential for their growth here in these rain drops.
- The heavier metallic elements, some of which living systems also require, are formed only in very massive stars during supernova explosions.
1. 1.1 (of sound) resembling that produced by metal objects striking each other; sharp and ringing.
  （声音）金属似的；刺耳的
  the terrifying, metallic clamor of the fire-engine bell
  消防车铃恐怖、刺耳的尖叫。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now and again, you could hear the unmistakable metallic sound of snow shovels banging into concrete sidewalks, along with the deep rumble of a passing plow.
  Gamblers aren't shying away from them, though some dedicated coin droppers dislike the loss of the metallic sounds of money changing hands.
  I will not have the background music be loud drums and metallic sounds that makes it impossible for the audience to hear what is being said.
  He heard a sharp, metallic sound that made his blood run cold through his veins.
  When alarmed they utter a sharp metallic clinking sound rather like that made by a hammer striking an anvil.
  It clanged to the ground making a tinny metallic sound.
  The figure laughs and I cringe at the raucous, metallic sound that sounds from the image of my mouth.
  For starters the three M - 16s bumped into each other with metallic clicks.
  Victor's flaming sword clashed against the blackness of Jack's sword with a sharp metallic clang.
  A metallic buzz sounded from the far corner of the workroom.
  She started to run her fingers though my hair and just when it was starting to get exciting a loud metallic sound echoed off the walls.
  It reached back, pulling out a sword with the sound of metal on the sheath, a ringing, metallic sound that foretold doom.
  There are a lot of echoes, for instance, and these either stretch the small metallic sounds out into drones or create sharp, stuttering rhythms.
  With a gasp, his head jerked left as a metallic sound echoed through the room.
  A sharp metallic clang could be heard, echoing throughout the whole forest stirring up many different animals from even miles away.
  There was a confusion of footsteps as the Russian boys barreled down the steps, still calling to each other, and then the metallic sound repeated itself.
  The loud metallic sound is startling and helps add impact to your verbal correction.
  They all checked their guns and loaded them to a collection of clicks and metallic sounds.
  The sound can be a raucous metallic clangour or it can be as soft as notes on velvet.
  At that precise moment, a gong near the entrance way was sounded, the metallic clang echoing around the Great Hall.
  Synonyms
  tinny, jangling, jangly, jingling, jingly, plinky
2. 1.2 (of a person's voice); emanating or as if emanating via an electronic medium.
  （嗓音）电子扩大的
  a metallic voice rasped tinnily from a concealed speaker
  一个电子扩大的嗓音从隐藏着的扩音器中刺耳地传出。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A sharp voice, hard and metallic, spoke to the professor, biting off each word as if it were chewing its sentences.
  The metallic voice from the square grill above the buzzer interrupted my deliberations.
  Flames will engulf your feet, roasting them with agonizing slowness while a grating metallic voice repeatedly says the name and slogan of a product.
  His voice had a metallic quality as if the modulation was slightly out of sequence.
  Brightly colored birds flew across the sky, calling out in metallic sitar voices, and Seiriô watched them.
  The strong yet soothing metallic voice filled the room.
  His voice was slightly metallic, air whistling through a trachea-ring.
  ‘If I am to take over the world, I will do it without waiting so long,’ said the Ruler in a deep metallic voice.
  The voice which erupted was metallic in nature and seemed much older than Chrome herself even was.
  It stated more that asked in a hissing, metallic voice.
  ‘This area is off-limits to tourists at the moment,’ it intoned in a metallic voice.
  He smiles up at her and the metallic voice simply says, ‘Hello.’
  Her laugh was metallic like her smile, and I wondered what she was thinking.
  Then a metallic voice came through the speakers.
  The taller one spoke next, breaking the silence with his voice echoing throughout the metallic rafters high above them.
  ‘Step out of the room with your hands raised and you will note be harmed,’ a cold, metallic voice commanded.
  ‘Royal guard please come in,’ a metallic voice said into Nathan's communicator.
  ‘How strange’ the figure said in a raspy metallic voice, not dissimilar to X's.
  Would the recording be of a metallic grating voice?
  It swung open with a heavy metallic moan, and I was shoved inside the dark room.
3. 1.3 Having the sheen or luster of metal.
  金属般光亮的，有金属光泽的
  a metallic green sports car
  一辆漂亮的闪亮绿色赛车。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Officers said a ‘suspicious’ light green or light blue metallic Ford Focus had been seen in the area before the break in.
  By the time we reach our second dive site, at Penguin Cove, the sun is shining and the water has brightened to an almost metallic green.
  One of the girls wearing a metallic green jacket spotted Zack and ran over to him.
  I was completely encased head to toe in metallic green Lycra and nobody cared.
  Her fur, a deep blue-grey, had a softness that belied its almost metallic lustre.
  He picked a dark-aqua guitar that was iridescent and metallic.
  It also has a strange green, metallic note at its heart.
  The latter mineral, a sulphide of iron, has a shiny metallic lustre and was often mistaken for gold itself: it is the infamous fool's gold.
  There are mallards galore, the males with their metallic green heads and the females a dowdy brown, and busy little black scaups, bobbing like bath toys.
  They have large, prominent eyes, and metallic green leathery forewings with small light spots and coppery-green legs.
  Arowanas come in three shades, silver, metallic green and gold.
  Since then the metallic green Asian beetle has destroyed six million trees in Michigan.
  Its particles have a dull metallic lustre, far less brilliant than that of gold.
  Does he remember the metallic green Butterfly male that grabbed his hand in the dark?
  Bright green metallic fronds, in the shape of palm trees, still branch out from their stands.
  Trochilines often have iridescent feathers of metallic red, orange, green and blue.
  It's a brilliant metallic green beetle, about one-half inch long and about a quarter of an inch wide, so it's pretty good-sized.
  She frowned as she saw a tall, burgundy-haired vampire dressed in a bright metallic green laced up top and bell bottoms walk up behind the elfin boy.
  He ran down the metallic green hallway, the echo of his footfalls bouncing from wall to wall.
  He turned around, his metallic green tights glinting in the sunlight, his open vest with vines stitched on only one side.
  Synonyms
  metallized, burnished

nounməˈtalikməˈtælɪk

A paint, fiber, fabric, or color with a metallic sheen.
金属色漆；金属色织物；金属色
dresses that shine with sequins and metallics
Example sentencesExamples
- There also are burnished metallics and grass cloths in boldly scaled weaves.
- According to Richard Smith, sales manager and store manager, people want metallics with texture and novelty.
- Silver is still desirable, but other metallics and copper tones in costume jewellery are making inroads.
- I feel that metallics add the three-dimensional quality which reflects the light.
- White, metallics and other washed out colours, (such as grey and khaki) dominated the collection.
- Color trends on the horizon include the significant rise in the use of color ‘effects’ like metallics, opalescents and colors that change depending on the light sources.
- He believed that more metallics could be created by adding amounts of the four coloured inks used in every printing press to a single base ink containing a silver pigment.
- She likes to experiment with composition leaf, 22K gold, silver leaf, combinations of metallics, irridescents, and interference paints, although acrylics are still her passion.
- About five years ago, our designers allowed people to select from a variety of very bold, bright colors: greens, oranges, yellows as well as metallics with a special hue, things like liquid crystal paint.
- ‘We keep our suedes, textures, metallics and fabrics intermingled with rag mats,’ said Christine Knoll.
- Cohen also notes that pearlized pigments and metallics in eye shadows do not affect shelf life.
- Dressier varieties for evening offer slimmer styles in metallics, patent leathers and bold colors.
- The export sales manager, noted that the direction in trims was to ‘no-color’ effects such as earth tones, metallics and trims that fit into the silk fabric resurgence.
- The problem with metallics, however, is that they can't be dry-cleaned, nor are these hand-crafted costumes machine washable.
- Christine Brown of Toyota says that in focus groups, buyers under 35 say they consider metallics as luxurious and futuristic.
- Unfortunately, the range of colors, including metallics, is in need of further development.
- Iridescence - and similar effects such as metallics, pearlescence, and colors that change according to light - are finding their way into new products.
- Ancient Spice is a Bohemian look blending metallics with the warmth and vibrancy of powdered, spicy shades.
- Sure enough, she tossed the reds and metallics aside, but I still thought she looked pretty.
- Metallics and more metallics will shimmer and shine on many diverse materials.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek metallikos, from metallon (see metal).

单词	metallic
释义	Definition of metallic in English: metallic adjective mɪˈtalɪkməˈtælɪk 1Relating to or resembling metal or metals. 金属的，金属般的 metallic alloys 合金。 a curious metallic taste 奇怪的金属味道。 Example sentencesExamples Almost all of the popular family saloons now have a two-door, sportier-looking sibling that is usually dressed up in alloys and metallic paint. It generally requires special treatment to mitigate its rather bitter, metallic taste. The heavier metallic elements, some of which living systems also require, are formed only in very massive stars during supernova explosions. But in any case there is no such thing - chlorine is simply not an element that can form a metallic alloy, as opposed to an ionic compound with a metal. Seeds and plants on the earth find numerous metallic salts and elements essential for their growth here in these rain drops. Some people find that meat has a metallic taste. This is a very attractive car and, with the metallic paint and standard alloys, it looks even better. Instead of the usual metallic zinc taste it was more like something sweet, like syrup or nectar. This distinction is always made for the element carbon, and there is no scientific justification for treating metallic elements differently. As a result, some of the elements of the metal or alloy change from a metallic state into a non-metallic state. Hailey bit down on her lip in an effort to stop another dam of tears threatening to break loose; tasting metallic blood and her salty tears intermingle. The walls and the podiums were made of some kind of shiny metallic, silver alloy. I coughed and tasted the metallic bitterness of blood. To keep caviar from absorbing a slight metallic taste from metal servers and utensils, present it on glass, shell, or bone. The reduced metal typically forms a metallic alloy on the cathode. The rare earth elements comprise a group of 17 trivalent metallic elements with similar chemical properties. Just to clarify, antimony is a metallic element on the periodic table. The metallic taste was in his mouth, making him gag. Early symptoms, such as a metallic taste, tinnitus, lightheadedness, and confusion, are followed by tremors and shivering. Heavy metals are metallic elements that have a high atomic number and are poisonous to living organisms. 1.1 (of sound) resembling that produced by metal objects striking each other; sharp and ringing. （声音）金属似的；刺耳的 the blade locked into place with a heavy metallic clunk Example sentencesExamples For starters the three M - 16s bumped into each other with metallic clicks. Gamblers aren't shying away from them, though some dedicated coin droppers dislike the loss of the metallic sounds of money changing hands. It reached back, pulling out a sword with the sound of metal on the sheath, a ringing, metallic sound that foretold doom. Victor's flaming sword clashed against the blackness of Jack's sword with a sharp metallic clang. I will not have the background music be loud drums and metallic sounds that makes it impossible for the audience to hear what is being said. The sound can be a raucous metallic clangour or it can be as soft as notes on velvet. With a gasp, his head jerked left as a metallic sound echoed through the room. At that precise moment, a gong near the entrance way was sounded, the metallic clang echoing around the Great Hall. She started to run her fingers though my hair and just when it was starting to get exciting a loud metallic sound echoed off the walls. Now and again, you could hear the unmistakable metallic sound of snow shovels banging into concrete sidewalks, along with the deep rumble of a passing plow. They all checked their guns and loaded them to a collection of clicks and metallic sounds. The figure laughs and I cringe at the raucous, metallic sound that sounds from the image of my mouth. It clanged to the ground making a tinny metallic sound. There was a confusion of footsteps as the Russian boys barreled down the steps, still calling to each other, and then the metallic sound repeated itself. When alarmed they utter a sharp metallic clinking sound rather like that made by a hammer striking an anvil. A metallic buzz sounded from the far corner of the workroom. A sharp metallic clang could be heard, echoing throughout the whole forest stirring up many different animals from even miles away. There are a lot of echoes, for instance, and these either stretch the small metallic sounds out into drones or create sharp, stuttering rhythms. The loud metallic sound is startling and helps add impact to your verbal correction. He heard a sharp, metallic sound that made his blood run cold through his veins. Synonyms tinny, jangling, jangly, jingling, jingly, plinky grating, harsh, jarring, dissonant, raucous 1.2 (of a person's voice) emanating via an electronic medium. （嗓音）电子扩大的 a metallic voice rasped tinnily from a speaker 一个电子扩大的嗓音从隐藏着的扩音器中刺耳地传出。 Example sentencesExamples The voice which erupted was metallic in nature and seemed much older than Chrome herself even was. He smiles up at her and the metallic voice simply says, ‘Hello.’ His voice was slightly metallic, air whistling through a trachea-ring. Brightly colored birds flew across the sky, calling out in metallic sitar voices, and Seiriô watched them. ‘Step out of the room with your hands raised and you will note be harmed,’ a cold, metallic voice commanded. Flames will engulf your feet, roasting them with agonizing slowness while a grating metallic voice repeatedly says the name and slogan of a product. ‘How strange’ the figure said in a raspy metallic voice, not dissimilar to X's. ‘This area is off-limits to tourists at the moment,’ it intoned in a metallic voice. His voice had a metallic quality as if the modulation was slightly out of sequence. The strong yet soothing metallic voice filled the room. ‘If I am to take over the world, I will do it without waiting so long,’ said the Ruler in a deep metallic voice. Would the recording be of a metallic grating voice? A sharp voice, hard and metallic, spoke to the professor, biting off each word as if it were chewing its sentences. It swung open with a heavy metallic moan, and I was shoved inside the dark room. Her laugh was metallic like her smile, and I wondered what she was thinking. It stated more that asked in a hissing, metallic voice. Then a metallic voice came through the speakers. ‘Royal guard please come in,’ a metallic voice said into Nathan's communicator. The metallic voice from the square grill above the buzzer interrupted my deliberations. The taller one spoke next, breaking the silence with his voice echoing throughout the metallic rafters high above them. 1.3 Having the lustre of metal; iridescent. 金属般光亮的，有金属光泽的 a beautiful metallic green sports car 一辆漂亮的闪亮绿色赛车。 Example sentencesExamples Arowanas come in three shades, silver, metallic green and gold. There are mallards galore, the males with their metallic green heads and the females a dowdy brown, and busy little black scaups, bobbing like bath toys. The latter mineral, a sulphide of iron, has a shiny metallic lustre and was often mistaken for gold itself: it is the infamous fool's gold. She frowned as she saw a tall, burgundy-haired vampire dressed in a bright metallic green laced up top and bell bottoms walk up behind the elfin boy. Trochilines often have iridescent feathers of metallic red, orange, green and blue. Bright green metallic fronds, in the shape of palm trees, still branch out from their stands. Officers said a ‘suspicious’ light green or light blue metallic Ford Focus had been seen in the area before the break in. Since then the metallic green Asian beetle has destroyed six million trees in Michigan. I was completely encased head to toe in metallic green Lycra and nobody cared. Her fur, a deep blue-grey, had a softness that belied its almost metallic lustre. He ran down the metallic green hallway, the echo of his footfalls bouncing from wall to wall. Does he remember the metallic green Butterfly male that grabbed his hand in the dark? It's a brilliant metallic green beetle, about one-half inch long and about a quarter of an inch wide, so it's pretty good-sized. Its particles have a dull metallic lustre, far less brilliant than that of gold. He turned around, his metallic green tights glinting in the sunlight, his open vest with vines stitched on only one side. He picked a dark-aqua guitar that was iridescent and metallic. By the time we reach our second dive site, at Penguin Cove, the sun is shining and the water has brightened to an almost metallic green. One of the girls wearing a metallic green jacket spotted Zack and ran over to him. It also has a strange green, metallic note at its heart. They have large, prominent eyes, and metallic green leathery forewings with small light spots and coppery-green legs. Synonyms metallized, burnished shiny, gleaming, glossy, lustrous, pearlescent, polished noun mɪˈtalɪkməˈtælɪk usually metallics A paint, fabric, or colour with a metallic sheen. 金属色漆；金属色织物；金属色 ultra-bright solid colours, pearls, metallics, and more Example sentencesExamples Silver is still desirable, but other metallics and copper tones in costume jewellery are making inroads. Unfortunately, the range of colors, including metallics, is in need of further development. Ancient Spice is a Bohemian look blending metallics with the warmth and vibrancy of powdered, spicy shades. The export sales manager, noted that the direction in trims was to ‘no-color’ effects such as earth tones, metallics and trims that fit into the silk fabric resurgence. Color trends on the horizon include the significant rise in the use of color ‘effects’ like metallics, opalescents and colors that change depending on the light sources. Dressier varieties for evening offer slimmer styles in metallics, patent leathers and bold colors. About five years ago, our designers allowed people to select from a variety of very bold, bright colors: greens, oranges, yellows as well as metallics with a special hue, things like liquid crystal paint. ‘We keep our suedes, textures, metallics and fabrics intermingled with rag mats,’ said Christine Knoll. According to Richard Smith, sales manager and store manager, people want metallics with texture and novelty. Christine Brown of Toyota says that in focus groups, buyers under 35 say they consider metallics as luxurious and futuristic. He believed that more metallics could be created by adding amounts of the four coloured inks used in every printing press to a single base ink containing a silver pigment. I feel that metallics add the three-dimensional quality which reflects the light. Iridescence - and similar effects such as metallics, pearlescence, and colors that change according to light - are finding their way into new products. Metallics and more metallics will shimmer and shine on many diverse materials. She likes to experiment with composition leaf, 22K gold, silver leaf, combinations of metallics, irridescents, and interference paints, although acrylics are still her passion. There also are burnished metallics and grass cloths in boldly scaled weaves. White, metallics and other washed out colours, (such as grey and khaki) dominated the collection. Sure enough, she tossed the reds and metallics aside, but I still thought she looked pretty. Cohen also notes that pearlized pigments and metallics in eye shadows do not affect shelf life. The problem with metallics, however, is that they can't be dry-cleaned, nor are these hand-crafted costumes machine washable. Derivatives metallically adverb I pass between mighty sentinel-like pines and come out at a crest with Wellington City below to my left and the Harbour glittering metallically beyond. Example sentencesExamples The chair was still ringing metallically from the impact. ‘Apology accepted’ I would breath metallically at her lifeless form. He took a bunch of pictures with it, and sure enough, they too look as metallically eerie and ghostlike as if they'd been lost in archives for a century. The warm, jovial man that had met us at the drawbridge now had solidified, becoming a cold-hearted sentinel that seemed to march metallically across the carpeted floor. Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek metallikos, from metallon (see metal). Rhymes Alec, cephalic, encephalic, Gallic, intervallic, italic, medallic, mesocephalic, phallic, Salic, tantalic, Uralic, Vandalic Definition of metallic in US English: metallic adjectiveməˈtalikməˈtælɪk 1Relating to or resembling metal or metals. 金属的，金属般的 metallic alloys 合金。 a curious metallic taste 奇怪的金属味道。 Example sentencesExamples This distinction is always made for the element carbon, and there is no scientific justification for treating metallic elements differently. The walls and the podiums were made of some kind of shiny metallic, silver alloy. But in any case there is no such thing - chlorine is simply not an element that can form a metallic alloy, as opposed to an ionic compound with a metal. Some people find that meat has a metallic taste. The rare earth elements comprise a group of 17 trivalent metallic elements with similar chemical properties. As a result, some of the elements of the metal or alloy change from a metallic state into a non-metallic state. Early symptoms, such as a metallic taste, tinnitus, lightheadedness, and confusion, are followed by tremors and shivering. The metallic taste was in his mouth, making him gag. It generally requires special treatment to mitigate its rather bitter, metallic taste. I coughed and tasted the metallic bitterness of blood. Hailey bit down on her lip in an effort to stop another dam of tears threatening to break loose; tasting metallic blood and her salty tears intermingle. To keep caviar from absorbing a slight metallic taste from metal servers and utensils, present it on glass, shell, or bone. Instead of the usual metallic zinc taste it was more like something sweet, like syrup or nectar. Heavy metals are metallic elements that have a high atomic number and are poisonous to living organisms. Just to clarify, antimony is a metallic element on the periodic table. The reduced metal typically forms a metallic alloy on the cathode. Almost all of the popular family saloons now have a two-door, sportier-looking sibling that is usually dressed up in alloys and metallic paint. This is a very attractive car and, with the metallic paint and standard alloys, it looks even better. Seeds and plants on the earth find numerous metallic salts and elements essential for their growth here in these rain drops. The heavier metallic elements, some of which living systems also require, are formed only in very massive stars during supernova explosions. 1.1 (of sound) resembling that produced by metal objects striking each other; sharp and ringing. （声音）金属似的；刺耳的 the terrifying, metallic clamor of the fire-engine bell 消防车铃恐怖、刺耳的尖叫。 Example sentencesExamples Now and again, you could hear the unmistakable metallic sound of snow shovels banging into concrete sidewalks, along with the deep rumble of a passing plow. Gamblers aren't shying away from them, though some dedicated coin droppers dislike the loss of the metallic sounds of money changing hands. I will not have the background music be loud drums and metallic sounds that makes it impossible for the audience to hear what is being said. He heard a sharp, metallic sound that made his blood run cold through his veins. When alarmed they utter a sharp metallic clinking sound rather like that made by a hammer striking an anvil. It clanged to the ground making a tinny metallic sound. The figure laughs and I cringe at the raucous, metallic sound that sounds from the image of my mouth. For starters the three M - 16s bumped into each other with metallic clicks. Victor's flaming sword clashed against the blackness of Jack's sword with a sharp metallic clang. A metallic buzz sounded from the far corner of the workroom. She started to run her fingers though my hair and just when it was starting to get exciting a loud metallic sound echoed off the walls. It reached back, pulling out a sword with the sound of metal on the sheath, a ringing, metallic sound that foretold doom. There are a lot of echoes, for instance, and these either stretch the small metallic sounds out into drones or create sharp, stuttering rhythms. With a gasp, his head jerked left as a metallic sound echoed through the room. A sharp metallic clang could be heard, echoing throughout the whole forest stirring up many different animals from even miles away. There was a confusion of footsteps as the Russian boys barreled down the steps, still calling to each other, and then the metallic sound repeated itself. The loud metallic sound is startling and helps add impact to your verbal correction. They all checked their guns and loaded them to a collection of clicks and metallic sounds. The sound can be a raucous metallic clangour or it can be as soft as notes on velvet. At that precise moment, a gong near the entrance way was sounded, the metallic clang echoing around the Great Hall. Synonyms tinny, jangling, jangly, jingling, jingly, plinky 1.2 (of a person's voice); emanating or as if emanating via an electronic medium. （嗓音）电子扩大的 a metallic voice rasped tinnily from a concealed speaker 一个电子扩大的嗓音从隐藏着的扩音器中刺耳地传出。 Example sentencesExamples A sharp voice, hard and metallic, spoke to the professor, biting off each word as if it were chewing its sentences. The metallic voice from the square grill above the buzzer interrupted my deliberations. Flames will engulf your feet, roasting them with agonizing slowness while a grating metallic voice repeatedly says the name and slogan of a product. His voice had a metallic quality as if the modulation was slightly out of sequence. Brightly colored birds flew across the sky, calling out in metallic sitar voices, and Seiriô watched them. The strong yet soothing metallic voice filled the room. His voice was slightly metallic, air whistling through a trachea-ring. ‘If I am to take over the world, I will do it without waiting so long,’ said the Ruler in a deep metallic voice. The voice which erupted was metallic in nature and seemed much older than Chrome herself even was. It stated more that asked in a hissing, metallic voice. ‘This area is off-limits to tourists at the moment,’ it intoned in a metallic voice. He smiles up at her and the metallic voice simply says, ‘Hello.’ Her laugh was metallic like her smile, and I wondered what she was thinking. Then a metallic voice came through the speakers. The taller one spoke next, breaking the silence with his voice echoing throughout the metallic rafters high above them. ‘Step out of the room with your hands raised and you will note be harmed,’ a cold, metallic voice commanded. ‘Royal guard please come in,’ a metallic voice said into Nathan's communicator. ‘How strange’ the figure said in a raspy metallic voice, not dissimilar to X's. Would the recording be of a metallic grating voice? It swung open with a heavy metallic moan, and I was shoved inside the dark room. 1.3 Having the sheen or luster of metal. 金属般光亮的，有金属光泽的 a metallic green sports car 一辆漂亮的闪亮绿色赛车。 Example sentencesExamples Officers said a ‘suspicious’ light green or light blue metallic Ford Focus had been seen in the area before the break in. By the time we reach our second dive site, at Penguin Cove, the sun is shining and the water has brightened to an almost metallic green. One of the girls wearing a metallic green jacket spotted Zack and ran over to him. I was completely encased head to toe in metallic green Lycra and nobody cared. Her fur, a deep blue-grey, had a softness that belied its almost metallic lustre. He picked a dark-aqua guitar that was iridescent and metallic. It also has a strange green, metallic note at its heart. The latter mineral, a sulphide of iron, has a shiny metallic lustre and was often mistaken for gold itself: it is the infamous fool's gold. There are mallards galore, the males with their metallic green heads and the females a dowdy brown, and busy little black scaups, bobbing like bath toys. They have large, prominent eyes, and metallic green leathery forewings with small light spots and coppery-green legs. Arowanas come in three shades, silver, metallic green and gold. Since then the metallic green Asian beetle has destroyed six million trees in Michigan. Its particles have a dull metallic lustre, far less brilliant than that of gold. Does he remember the metallic green Butterfly male that grabbed his hand in the dark? Bright green metallic fronds, in the shape of palm trees, still branch out from their stands. Trochilines often have iridescent feathers of metallic red, orange, green and blue. It's a brilliant metallic green beetle, about one-half inch long and about a quarter of an inch wide, so it's pretty good-sized. She frowned as she saw a tall, burgundy-haired vampire dressed in a bright metallic green laced up top and bell bottoms walk up behind the elfin boy. He ran down the metallic green hallway, the echo of his footfalls bouncing from wall to wall. He turned around, his metallic green tights glinting in the sunlight, his open vest with vines stitched on only one side. Synonyms metallized, burnished nounməˈtalikməˈtælɪk A paint, fiber, fabric, or color with a metallic sheen. 金属色漆；金属色织物；金属色 dresses that shine with sequins and metallics Example sentencesExamples There also are burnished metallics and grass cloths in boldly scaled weaves. According to Richard Smith, sales manager and store manager, people want metallics with texture and novelty. Silver is still desirable, but other metallics and copper tones in costume jewellery are making inroads. I feel that metallics add the three-dimensional quality which reflects the light. White, metallics and other washed out colours, (such as grey and khaki) dominated the collection. Color trends on the horizon include the significant rise in the use of color ‘effects’ like metallics, opalescents and colors that change depending on the light sources. He believed that more metallics could be created by adding amounts of the four coloured inks used in every printing press to a single base ink containing a silver pigment. She likes to experiment with composition leaf, 22K gold, silver leaf, combinations of metallics, irridescents, and interference paints, although acrylics are still her passion. About five years ago, our designers allowed people to select from a variety of very bold, bright colors: greens, oranges, yellows as well as metallics with a special hue, things like liquid crystal paint. ‘We keep our suedes, textures, metallics and fabrics intermingled with rag mats,’ said Christine Knoll. Cohen also notes that pearlized pigments and metallics in eye shadows do not affect shelf life. Dressier varieties for evening offer slimmer styles in metallics, patent leathers and bold colors. The export sales manager, noted that the direction in trims was to ‘no-color’ effects such as earth tones, metallics and trims that fit into the silk fabric resurgence. The problem with metallics, however, is that they can't be dry-cleaned, nor are these hand-crafted costumes machine washable. Christine Brown of Toyota says that in focus groups, buyers under 35 say they consider metallics as luxurious and futuristic. Unfortunately, the range of colors, including metallics, is in need of further development. Iridescence - and similar effects such as metallics, pearlescence, and colors that change according to light - are finding their way into new products. Ancient Spice is a Bohemian look blending metallics with the warmth and vibrancy of powdered, spicy shades. Sure enough, she tossed the reds and metallics aside, but I still thought she looked pretty. Metallics and more metallics will shimmer and shine on many diverse materials. Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek metallikos, from metallon (see metal).
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