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woods

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Noun, Noun Plural

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun woods has 1 sense

THESAURUS

woods

English horn, Pandean pipe, afforestation, arboretum, aulos, back country, backwoods, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bombard, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, chase, clarinet, climax forest, cloud forest, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cromorne, dendrology, double bassoon, double reed, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, forests, fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, greenwood, hanger, hautboy, heckelphone, hinterland, hornpipe, index forest, jungle, jungles, licorice stick, musette, national forest, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, outback, outpost, palmetto barrens, panpipe, park, park forest, penny-whistle, piccolo, pine barrens, pipe, pommer, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, recorder, reed, reed instrument, reforestation, sax, saxophone, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shawm, shrubland, silviculture, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tenoroon, the bush, timber, timberland, timbers, tin-whistle, tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin forest, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, weald, whistle, wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlands, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

metal

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Adjective

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun metal has 2 senses

Verb metal has 1 sense

Adjective metal has 1 sense

  • metal(a = adj.all) metallic - containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal; "a metallic compound"; "metallic luster"; "the strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades"

CIDE DICTIONARY

metaln. [F. métal, L. metallum metal, mine, Gr. mine; cf. Gr. to search after. Cf. Mettle, Medal.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    " Popularly, the name is applied to certain hard, fusible metals, as gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, zinc, nickel, etc., and also to the mixed metals, or metallic alloys, as brass, bronze, steel, bell metal, etc."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.  Raymond.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A mine from which ores are taken.  [1913 Webster]
    "Slaves . . . and persons condemned to metals."  [1913 Webster]
  •  The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.  [1913 Webster]
    "Not till God make men of some other metal than earth."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
    " The allusion is to the temper of the metal of a sword blade."  Skeat.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Glass in a state of fusion.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The rails of a railroad.  [1913 Webster]
Base metal (Chem.), any one of the metals, as iron, lead, etc., which are readily tarnished or oxidized, in contrast with the noble metals. In general, a metal of small value, as compared with gold or silver. -- Fusible metal (Metal.), a very fusible alloy, usually consisting of bismuth with lead, tin, or cadmium. -- Heavy metals (Chem.), the metallic elements not included in the groups of the alkalies, alkaline earths, or the earths; specifically, the heavy metals, as gold, mercury, platinum, lead, silver, etc. -- Light metals (Chem.), the metallic elements of the alkali and alkaline earth groups, as sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, etc.; also, sometimes, the metals of the earths, as aluminium. -- Muntz metal, an alloy for sheathing and other purposes, consisting of about sixty per cent of copper, and forty of zinc. Sometimes a little lead is added. It is named from the inventor. -- Prince's metal (Old Chem.), an alloy resembling brass, consisting of three parts of copper to one of zinc; -- also called Prince Rupert's metal.
metalv. t. 
     To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

metal, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 a any of a class of chemical elements such as gold, silver, iron, and tin, usu. lustrous ductile solids and good conductors of heat and electricity and forming basic oxides. b an alloy of any of these.
2 material used for making glass, in a molten state.
3 Heraldry gold or silver as tincture.
4 (in pl.) the rails of a railway line.
5 = road-metal (see ROAD(1)).
--adj. made of metal.
--v.tr. (metalled, metalling; US metaled, metaling)
1 provide or fit with metal.
2 Brit. make or mend (a road) with road-metal.

Idiom
metal detector an electronic device giving a signal when it locates metal. metal fatigue fatigue (see FATIGUE n. 2) in metal.
Etymology
ME f. OF metal or L metallum f. Gk metallon mine

THESAURUS

metal

Dutch foil, achievement, alerion, aluminum, aluminum foil, americium, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, asphalt, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, barium, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, beryllium, billet, bismuth, blacktop, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, bullion, cadency mark, cadmium, calcium, canton, carpet, causeway, cement, cerium, cesium, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, chrome, chromium, coat of arms, cobalt, cobblestone, cockatrice, concrete, copper, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, dysprosium, eagle, earth metals, erbium, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, europium, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flag, flanch, fleur-de-lis, floor, fret, fur, fusil, gadolinium, gallium, garland, germanium, gold, gold dust, gold foil, gold leaf, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, holmium, honor point, impalement, impaling, indium, inescutcheon, iridium, iron, label, lanthanum, lead, lead foil, lion, lithium, lozenge, lutetium, magnesia, magnesium, manganese, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mercury, metal foil, metal leaf, metalleity, metallic, metallicity, metallics, metallike, metalline, metalloid, metalware, metalwork, molybdenum, motto, mullet, native metals, neodymium, nickel, niobium, noble metals, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, organometallic, orle, osmium, pale, palladium, paly, pave, pean, pebble, pheon, phosphorus, platinum, polonium, potassium, praseodymium, precious metals, promethium, protactinium, purpure, quarter, quartering, radium, rare metals, rhenium, rose, rubidium, ruthenium, sable, saltire, samarium, scandium, scutcheon, semimetal, shield, silver, silver foil, sodium, spread eagle, strontium, subordinary, tantalum, tar, technetium, tenne, terbium, thallium, thulium, tin, tincture, tinfoil, titanium, torse, tressure, tungsten, unicorn, uranium, vair, vanadium, vert, wolfram, wreath, yale, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium

ROGET THESAURUS

metal

Materials

N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.

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