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metal
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/ˈmɛ.təl/
noun
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In plain English
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noun
A hard, usually shiny material such as iron, gold, or silver.
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noun
Extra detailChemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Examples
The heavy gate was constructed from solid metal bars.
The acid burned the metal.
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
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Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsAny of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy.
An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.
More examples
In contextWe have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airways metal.
Metal contracts when cooled.
2008, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Geochemical Society, Oxygen in the solar system, Mineralogical Society of Amer →ISBN Thus, for the remaining elements, including oxygen, the solid phase appears to be important. In fact, at a metallicity of Z=0.02, and wit...
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Origin
noun
From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).