METALLIC
\mətˈalɪk], \mətˈalɪk], \m_ə_t_ˈa_l_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of METALLIC
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 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
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Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive.
By Oddity Software
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Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pertaining to or like a metal: containing or consisting of metal; of the nature of metal. Metallic lustre, a lustre peculiar to all metals. Metallic oxide, metal combined with oxygen. Metallic salts, salts which have a metallic oxide as their base. Metallic vein a mineral vein containing metallic ore.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Pert. to metals; like a metal; consisting of metal; metal-refiner, a smelter of ores; one who separates copper, lead, or other metal, from the dross or refuse with which it is mixed; the perfect metals, those which are not easily oxidised, as platinum, gold, and silver; the base or imperfect metals, those which readily combine with oxygen, as iron, lead, copper, tin, and zinc.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland