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metals

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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • /ˈmet.l̩z/
    • /ˈmet.l̩z/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /ˈmet.l̩z/

Definition of metals word

  • noun metals Plural form of metal. 1
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Parts of speech for Metals

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Full grammatical hierarchy of Metals

metals popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for metals

adjective metals

  • irons — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
  • steels — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
  • coppers — Plural form of copper.
  • golds — Plural form of gold.

noun metals

  • alloys — Plural form of alloy.
  • ingots — Plural form of ingot.
  • minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
  • ore — a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
  • castings — Plural form of casting.
All 15 Synonyms of metals

Top questions with metals

  • where are the metals located on the periodic table?

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