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Examples:lit. sincerity splits open metal and metal (idiom); if you put your heart it, you can break up metal and rocks—a kind of metal or jade ornament worn in ancient times ward off evil spirits—(arch.) metal horn attached as shield horse or to the axle of a chariot—heat evenly (e.g. in smelting metal)—transform gold into base metal (idiom); fig. to edit sb else's beautiful prose and ruin it—floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc)—veinstone (stone containing a vein of precious metal)—inscription on metal or bronze—bucking bar (metal bar fixing the tail of a rivet as it is driven)—flatten out (paper, film, metal plates etc)—printing with metal plates—Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due quantum mechanical vacuum effects)—water-driven ventilation (for metal smelting furnace)—hot treatment (e.g. of metal)—ancient weapon like a long solid metal truncheon—a buckle or fastener for clothing that does not use a button and buttonhole (e.g. the buckle on metal wristwatches)—secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water [idiom.]— |