Usually means: Conductive, malleable elements, typically lustrous.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. metal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. metal, metal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metal, metal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Metal, Metal, metal: Wordnik
  7. metal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. metal: Wiktionary
  9. metal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. metal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. metal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. metal, metal: Dictionary.com
  13. metal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. metal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. METAL, Metal (API), Metal (Annihilator album), Metal (EP), Metal (Gary Numan song), Metal (Manilla Road album), Metal (Newsted EP), Metal (Wu Xing), Metal (astronomy), Metal (classical element), Metal (disambiguation), Metal (genre), Metal (iOS API), Metal (music), Metal (song), Metal (wuxing), Metal, The Metal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Metal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. metal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. metal: Rhymezone
  19. metal, metal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. metal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. metal: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. metal: Free Dictionary
  23. metal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. metal, metal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. metal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. metal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. metal: Global Glossary
  3. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  4. Metal: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. METAL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. metal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. metal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. METAL: Acronym Finder
  5. metal: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. Metal: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Metal: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. metal: Nine Planets Glossary
  5. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. metal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Metal, The Metal, metal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Stained Glass Windows (No longer online)
  3. Metal: Bottle Glossary
  4. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See metaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
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.
noun:  Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.
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.
noun:  Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
noun:  (mining) The ore from which a metal is derived.
noun:  (obsolete) A mine from which ores are taken.
noun:  (heraldry) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
noun:  (glassblowing) Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
noun:  (music) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
noun:  (figurative, archaic) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper.
noun:  The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
noun:  (UK, in the plural) The rails of a railway.
noun:  (informal, travel, aviation) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
adjective:  (music) Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
adjective:  Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
verb:  To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.

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