metal

Meanings

Noun

• Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
• A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
• Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
• A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
• The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper.
• The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
• The rails of a railway.
• The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.

Adjective

• Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
• Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.

Verb

• To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.

Related

Opposite words

• nonmetal

Origin

• From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum ("metal, mine, quarry, mineral"), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον ("mine, quarry, metal").