Aich's metal () A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin. |
Babbitt metal () A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction. |
Bell metal () A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin |
Blond metal () A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools. |
Burnish (a.) To cause to shine |
Burnish (v. i.) To shine forth |
Burnish (n.) The effect of burnishing |
Kingston metal () An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. |
Metal (n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc. |
Metal (n.) Ore from which a metal is derived |
Metal (n.) A mine from which ores are taken. |
Metal (n.) The substance of which anything is made |
Metal (n.) Courage |
Metal (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads. |
Metal (n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war. |
Metal (n.) Glass in a state of fusion. |
Metal (n.) The rails of a railroad. |
Metal (v. t.) To cover with metal |
Muntz metal () See under Metal. |
Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear |
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. |
Shearing (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine |
Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling. |
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping. |
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears |
Shearing (n.) The process of preparing shear steel |
Shearing (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. |
Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep. |
Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. |
Tula metal () An alloy of silver, copper, and lead made at Tula in Russia. |
Wood's metal () A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66¡ |
shearing | removing by cutting off or clipping |
sheet-metal work | the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems) |
drum metal drum | a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids |
full metal jacket | a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) |
gauntlet gantlet metal glove | a glove of armored leather, protects the hand |
hacksaw hack saw metal saw | saw used with one hand for cutting metal |
ingot metal bar block of metal | metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling |
liquid metal reactor | a nuclear reactor using liquid metal as a coolant |
metal detector | detector that gives a signal when it detects the presence of metal, used to detect the presence of stray bits of metal in food products or to find buried metal |
metal screw | screw made of metal |
metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head |
plating metal plating | a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface |
sheet metal | sheet of metal formed into a thin plate |
polish gloss glossiness burnish | the property of being smooth and shiny |
heavy metal heavy metal music | loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat, lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery |
metal filing | a fragment of metal rubbed off by the use of a file |
precious metal | any of the less common and valuable metals often used to make coins or jewelry |
coinage mintage specie metal money | coins collectively |
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 |
heavy metal | a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about ) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead) |
base metal | a metal that is common and not considered precious, lead, iron, copper, tin, and zinc are base metals |
terbium metal | a separate group of related lanthanides, including terbium, europium, gadolinium, and sometimes dysprosium |
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. |
noble metal | any metal that is resistant to corrosion or oxidation |
road metal | broken rock used for repairing or making roads |
alkali metal alkaline metal | any of the monovalent metals of group I of the periodic table (lithium or sodium or potassium or rubidium or cesium or francium), the hydroxides of the alkali metals are strongly alkaline |
alkaline earth alkaline-earth metal | any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium) |
fusible metal | an alloy with a low melting point and used as solder and in safety plugs and sprinkler fuses |
pot metal | an alloy of copper and lead used especially for making large pots |
Monel metal Monell metal | an alloy of nickel and copper and other metals (such as iron and or manganese and or aluminum) |
type metal | an alloy of tin and lead and antimony used to make printing type |
white metal bearing metal | an alloy (often of lead or tin base) used for bearings |
alpha-beta brass Muntz metal yellow metal | a brass that has more zinc and is stronger than alpha brass, used in making castings and hot-worked products |
Babbitt metal babbitt | an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony, a lining for bearings that reduces friction |
bell metal | bronze with or parts copper to part tin, used in making bells |
Britannia metal | an alloy similar to pewter |
pot metal | cast iron used for making cooking wares |
cheoplastic metal | any alloy that fuses at low temperatures and can be used molding artificial teeth |
scrap metal | discarded metal suitable for reprocessing, he finally sold the car for scrap metal |
gilding metal | a brass that is rich in copper, used to make articles that were to be gilded |
grid metal | a kind of hard lead that is used for grids in storage batteries |
misch metal | a pyrophoric alloy made from a mixture of rare-earth metals |
naval brass Admiralty brass Admiralty Metal Tobin bronze | alpha-beta brass containing tin, resistant to sea water, Admiralty Metal is a trademark |
shot metal | an alloy that is % lead and % arsenic, used in making small shot |
sparkle metal | matte that has percent copper |
Wood's metal Wood's alloy | a fusible alloy that is half bismuth plus lead, tin, and cadmium, melts at aboutdegrees Fahrenheit |
buff burnish furbish | polish and make shiny, buff the wooden floors, buff my shoes |
metal | cover with metal |
metal-colored metal-coloured metallic-colored metallic-coloured | having a metallic color |
metal-cutting | hard and sharp enough to cut metal, metal-cutting tools |