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metal
Part of speech: NounA heavy, lustrous substance, capable of being drawn into a fine thread and beaten or hammered into thin plates, of being melted by heat, and of carrying electricity; material; substance; hence, spirit; temper.
Part of speech: VerbTo cover with metal, such as gold, silver, copper, etc.
Usage examples "metal":- The increase came from the combination of the metal with that part of the air which Lavoisier called oxygen. - "In Search of a Son", William Shepard Walsh.
- " She's altogether of different metal from her brother," thought the young man. - "A Girl in Ten Thousand", L. T. Meade.
- They seem to object to metal." - "Victor Ollnee's Discipline", Hamlin Garland.