Definition of metal

"metal" in the noun sense

1. metallic element, metal

any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

2. alloy, metal

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"

"metal" in the verb sense

1. metal

cover with metal

"metal" in the adjective sense

1. metallic, metal

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

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Quotations for metal

See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]

Fools and philosophers were made out of the same metal. [ Proverb ]

The best metal is iron, the best vegetable wheat, but the worst animal is man. [ Proverb ]

Though all men were made of one metal, yet they were not cast all in the same mould. [ Proverb ]

I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better. [ Wycherley ]

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. [ Lowell ]

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration. [ Ouida ]

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected. [ Bishop Whately ]

Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]

A talisman that shall turn base metal into precious, Nature acknowledges not; but a talisman to turn base souls into noble, Nature has given us; and that is a philosopher's stone, but it is a stone which the builders refuse. [ John Ruskin ]

It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]

metal in Scrabble®

The word metal is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters metal:

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metal in Words With Friends™

The word metal is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters metal:

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In metal

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Words containing the sequence metal

Words that start with metal (131 words)

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Word Growth involving metal

Shorter words in metal

ta eta

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Longer words containing metal

bimetal bimetalists

bimetal bimetallic bimetallics

bimetal bimetallism

bimetal bimetals

gunmetal gunmetals

metalanguage metalanguages

metalbearing

metalcoated

metalcraft metalcrafted

metalcraft metalcrafter metalcrafters

metalcraft metalcrafting

metalcraft metalcrafts

metaldehyde metaldehydes

metaled

metalepses

metalepsis

metaleptic metaleptical metaleptically

metalinguistic metalinguistical metalinguistically

metalinguistic metalinguistics

metalisation metalisations

metalise metalised

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metalising

metalism monometalism

metalist metalists bimetalists

metalization metalizations

metalize metalized

metalize metalizes

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metallacarborane metallacarboranes

metalled

metallic bimetallic bimetallics

metallic metallically

metallic metallicisation metallicisations

metallic metallicise metallicised

metallic metallicise metallicises

metallic metallicising

metallic metallicity

metallic metallicization metallicizations

metallic metallicize metallicized

metallic metallicize metallicizes

metallic metallicizing

metallic metallics bimetallics

metallic metallics nonmetallics

metallic metallics organometallics

metallic metallics submetallics

metallic monometallic

metallic nonmetallic nonmetallics

metallic organometallic organometallics

metallic protometallic

metallic submetallic submetallics

metallic unmetallic

metalliferous nonmetalliferous

metallike

metalling

metallisation metallisations

metallise metallised

metallise metallises

metallising

metallist monometallist monometallists

metallization metallizations premetallizations

metallization premetallization premetallizations

metallize metallized nonmetallized

metallize metallizes

metallizing

metallocene metallocenes

metalloenzyme metalloenzymes

metalloenzymic

metallographer metallographers

metallographic metallographical metallographically

metallographies

metallographist metallographists

metallography

metalloid metalloidal

metalloid metalloids

metallokinesis

metallokinetic metallokinetics

metallophone metallophones

metallophthalocyanine

metallophyte metallophytes pseudometallophytes

metallophyte pseudometallophyte pseudometallophytes

metallophytic pseudometallophytic

metalloporphyrin

metalloprotein metalloproteinase metalloproteinases

metalloprotein metalloproteins

metallotherapeutic metallotherapeutical

metallotherapist metallotherapists

metallotherapy

metallurgic metallurgical archaeometallurgical archaeometallurgically

metallurgic metallurgical electrometallurgical electrometallurgically

metallurgic metallurgical hydrometallurgical hydrometallurgically

metallurgic metallurgical metallurgically archaeometallurgically

metallurgic metallurgical metallurgically electrometallurgically

metallurgic metallurgical metallurgically hydrometallurgically

metallurgic metallurgical metallurgically nonmetallurgically

metallurgic metallurgical metallurgically pyrometallurgically

metallurgic metallurgical nonmetallurgical nonmetallurgically

metallurgic metallurgical pyrometallurgical pyrometallurgically

metallurgic nonmetallurgic nonmetallurgical nonmetallurgically

metallurgies archaeometallurgies

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metallurgies hydrometallurgies

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metallurgist electrometallurgist electrometallurgists

metallurgist hydrometallurgist hydrometallurgists

metallurgist metallurgists electrometallurgists

metallurgist metallurgists hydrometallurgists

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metallurgist metallurgists nonmetallurgists

metallurgist micrometallurgist micrometallurgists

metallurgist nonmetallurgist nonmetallurgists

metallurgy archaeometallurgy

metallurgy electrometallurgy

metallurgy hydrometallurgy

metallurgy micrometallurgy

metallurgy pyrometallurgy

metalmark metalmarks

metaloxide metaloxides

metals bimetals

metals gunmetals

metals metalsmith metalsmithing

metals metalsmith metalsmiths

metals mischmetals

metals nonmetals

metals prometals

metals protometals

metalware metalwares

metalwork metalworker metalworkers

metalwork metalworking

metalwork metalworks

mischmetal mischmetals

monometallism monometallisms

nonmetal nonmetallic nonmetallics

nonmetal nonmetalliferous

nonmetal nonmetallized

nonmetal nonmetallurgic nonmetallurgical nonmetallurgically

nonmetal nonmetallurgist nonmetallurgists

nonmetal nonmetals

prometal prometals

protometal protometallic

protometal protometals

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