Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

metal

/ˈmɛ.təl/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms metals metaling metalling metaled metalled

  1. noun Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
  2. noun Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy.
  3. noun (astronomy) An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.
  4. noun Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
  5. noun (mining) The ore from which a metal is derived.
  6. noun (obsolete) A mine from which ores are taken.
  7. noun (heraldry) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
  8. noun (glassblowing) Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
  9. adjective (music) Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
  10. adjective Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
  11. verb To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.

Synonyms

heavy metal mettle metallic element alloy metallic

Antonyms

nonmetal

Etymology

From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Ore from which a metal is derived; --so called by miners.
  3. verb To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.

Etymology [F. métal, L. metallum metal, mine, Gr. Mettle, Medal.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “metal”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “metal” (best matches first).

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