ALLOY
\ˈalɔ͡ɪ], \ˈalɔɪ], \ˈa_l_ɔɪ]\
Definitions of ALLOY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
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The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
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A baser metal mixed with a finer.
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Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
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To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
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To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
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To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
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To form a metallic compound.
By Oddity Software
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Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
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The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
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A baser metal mixed with a finer.
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Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
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To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
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To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
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To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
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To form a metallic compound.
By Noah Webster.
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Any mixture of metals; a baser metal used in mixture with a finer one; an admixture of good with evil.
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To combine; to mix, as two or more metals; reduce in standard or quality by mixture.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To mix with or form into an alloy; temper; debase.
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A mixture of two or more metals, or the baser metal in such mixture.
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Anything that reduces purity or excellence.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A baser metal mixed with a finer; a fusion of different metals, unless one of them be mercury; a base admixture.
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To reduce the purity of a metal by mixing a baser with it; to reduce or abate by mixture.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To mix any metal with another, generally with one less valuable; to reduce or lessen by mixture.
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A baser metal mixed with a finer; a mixture of two or more metals; a mixture of a metal with mercury is called an amalgam; evil mixed with good.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Any combination of metals fused together. [Fr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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