METAL
What does "METAL" mean?
A solid material that is typically hard, shiny, and conducts heat and electricity, such as iron or gold.
Meanings
- A class of chemical elements (and their alloys) that are usually hard, lustrous, malleable, and good conductors of heat and electricity. Copper is a soft metal that bends easily.
- A genre of loud, heavy, guitar-driven rock music; heavy metal. The band plays thrash metal. informal
- Broken stone used in making roads; road metal. The crew spread fresh metal over the track. technical
Did you know?
- Roughly three out of every four known chemical elements are metals - so the periodic table is far more metallic than the everyday world of plastic, glass, and wood suggests.
- Mercury is the only metal that stays liquid at room temperature, which is why old thermometers used it to flow up and down a glass tube.
Word origin
From Greek 'metallon' (mine, quarry, or what is dug from a mine), into Latin 'metallum', then Old French 'metal' and English.
Remember it
METAL comes from Greek 'metallon', a mine - the place you dig metal out of the ground.
A little poem
Dug from the dark mine-
it remembers the furnace
in its cold bright skin.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why is iron such a reliable friend? Because it never goes back on its bond - it's a real metal.
What it teaches
Hardness and shine are earned in the furnace, not in the mine.
Quick facts
What does METAL mean?
A solid material that is typically hard, shiny, and conducts heat and electricity, such as iron or gold.
Is METAL a valid word?
Yes — METAL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is METAL?
METAL has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does METAL come from?
From Greek 'metallon' (mine, quarry, or what is dug from a mine), into Latin 'metallum', then Old French 'metal' and English.
What can METAL teach us?
Hardness and shine are earned in the furnace, not in the mine.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.