Meaning of Metals | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Metal.
2. The rail tracks owned by a company or organisation; a rail network.
   plural, plural-only
3. To cover or surface (a roadbed, for example) with broken stones.
4. the branch of metallurgy involved in the assaying of ores or metals. See also greece and greeks.
5. the study of metals and their structures and properties by the use of microscopy and x rays.
6. treatment of disease and illness with metals, particularly with the salt forms of metals.
7. the science of preparing metals for use by separating them from their ores and refining them, as by smelting. — metallurgist, n. — metallurgie, metallurgical, adj.
8. the study of metals and their structures by the use of x rays
9. Rare. the metallurgy of iron and steel.
10. Any of a category of electropositive elements that usually have a shiny surface, are generally good conductors of heat and electricity, and can be melted or fused, hammered into thin sheets, or drawn into wires. Typical metals form salts with nonmetals, basic oxides with oxygen, and alloys with one another.
11. An alloy of two or more metallic elements.
12. An object made of metal.

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Examples

“It was appropriate that 'King' number 6000 began the return to steam on British Rail metals in 1971.”

“Now and again a night train roared along the metals within twenty feet of him; but he had all the Oriental’s indifference to mere noise, and it did not even weave a dream through his slumber.”

“They stood on the foot-bridge over Boathouse Station and looked at the metals gleaming coldly.”

“The way the glare from our engine firehole pulsated, reflecting continuously in the steam, combined with our achievement in keeping level with the lighter train until our metals parted at Wilton, provided another lasting memory.”

“Steam services began running over NR [Network Rail] metals from Grosmont to the traffic objective of Whitby in 2007, with operations enhanced by opening of the second platform at the terminus in 2014.”

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