Definition of Metal

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Definition of Metal

Metal

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.

Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.

A mine from which ores are taken.

The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.

Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.

The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.

Glass in a state of fusion.

The rails of a railroad.

To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.

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Metal Quotations

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
Kurt Cobain

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
John Locke

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
James Russell Lowell

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.
Layne Staley

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
Michael J. Fox

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
Annie Leibovitz

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.
Sebastian Bach

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
Peter Steele

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
Josef Albers

Metal Translations

metal in Danish is metal
metal in Dutch is metalen
metal in German is Metall
metal in Italian is metallo
metal in Norwegian is metall
metal in Portuguese is metal
metal in Spanish is metal
metal in Swedish is metall

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