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Definitions: Alloy |
AlloyNoun1. A mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper". 2. The state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something. Verb1. Lower in value by increasing the base-metal content; of metals. 2. Make an alloy of (metals). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "alloy" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
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Computing | ALLOY |
Aerospace | A substance having metallic properties and being composed of two or more chemical elements of which at least one is an elemental metal. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of alloy, denotes your business will vex you in its complications. For a woman to dream of alloy, is significant of sorrow and trouble completely hiding pleasure. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | A mixture of metals and small quantities of non-metals, prepared by addition to a basic metal, as by addition of a semiconductor to a metal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A substance having metallic properties, and composed of two or morechemical elements, of which at least one is a metal. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Alloys are usually designed to have properties that are more desirable than those of their components. For instance, steel is stronger than iron, one of its main elements, and brass is more durable than copper, but more attractive than zinc.
Unlike pure metals, many alloys do not have a single melting point. Instead, they have a melting range in which the material is a mixture of solid and liquid phases. The temperature at which melting begins is called the solidus, and that at which melting is complete is called the liquidus. Special alloys can be designed with a single melting point, however, and these are called eutectic mixtures.
Sometimes an alloy is just named for the base metal, as 14k gold is an alloy of gold with other elements. The same holds for silver used in jewellery, and aluminum used structurally.
Alloys include:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alloy."
Synonyms: AlloySynonyms: admixture (n), metal (n), debase (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combination | Alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid; resultant, impregnation. |
Deterioration | Impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy. |
Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice. | |
Mixture | Instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect. |
Alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic; (variegation). | |
Pleasure | Pleasing; ecstatic, beatic; painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless. |
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Crosswords: Alloy |
| English words defined with "alloy": copper-base alloy ♦ nickel alloy, nickel-base alloy ♦ pyrophoric alloy ♦ Wood's alloy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "alloy": alloy 11, alloy system ♦ binary alloy ♦ copper-tin alloy ♦ heat treatable alloy ♦ Man-Ten steel alloy, master alloy ♦ Newton's alloy, nonferrous alloy ♦ permanently-modified aluminium alloy, permanent-modification aluminium alloy ♦ quaternary alloy ♦ remelt alloy ♦ secondary alloy ♦ tungsten alloy ♦ WEIGHER, ALLOY, wrought alloy ♦ zinc alloy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "alloy": Stannum. (references) |
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 | An alloy plant, Falls View, West Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | An alloy plant, Falls View, West Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Alloy plant, Falls View, West Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Part of an alloy plant, Falls View, West Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Giant at rest. A repairman mends one of the huge ladles in which molten steel is conveyed from the electric furnaces to the ingot moulds.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Giant at rest. A repairman mends one of the huge ladles in which molten steel is conveyed from the electric furnaces to the ingot moulds.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This quality steel tubing and piping will eventually be used to convey, refine or distill elements used in defense production. Expensive alloy steels are used, particularly for chemical piping. Special alloys have been.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Steel mill, Massillon, Ohio. General scene, Central Alloy Steel Corp.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Samuel Butler | A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | His mirth was without alloy. |
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Business | Other promising areas are alloy wheels, special air filters, special exhausts and special shocks. (references) | |
The company also manufactures parts from metal alloys ranging from low to high carbon hardenable alloy steel. (references) | ||
General workpiece material trends show that alloy steels and cast irons will be the primary materials machined, at least for the next few years. (references) | ||
Economic History | Netherlands | In the short term, the market is seeing a dramatic increase in the use of computers, software, data storage on diskettes, in-car navigation, electronic maps (CD-ROM), infrared blind-spot detectors, radar enhanced cruise control, and heads up speed/distance displays, audio equipment alloy wheels, wooden trimmings and seat covers. (references) |
India | Annexure Part C industries: The following is a list of additional industries and items where approval for foreign equity up to 74 percent is automatic: mining services; basic metals & alloy industries; manufacture of medical, surgical, scientific and measuring appliances and equipment; industrial process control equipment; meters for electricity, water and gas; laboratory and scientific equipment; photographic, cinematographic and optical goods; construction of electricity generation, transmission and distribution projects; construction of hydroelectric power and industrial plants; non-conventional energy generation & distribution; construction and maintenance of ocean and inland and water transport; refrigerated cold-storage and warehousing of agricultural products. (references) | |
Trade | El Salvador | L. Tokens of any metal or alloy that may be used as substitutes for legal coins. (references) |
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| "Alloy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.00% of the time. "Alloy" is used about 300 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99% | 297 | 16,856 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 300 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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| USA | Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "alloy": alloy 11 ♦ alloy 200/226 ♦ alloy 203/225 ♦ alloy cast iron ♦ alloy element ♦ alloy iron ♦ Alloy steel ♦ alloy transistor ♦ alluminium alloy ♦ aluminium alloy ♦ aluminum alloy ♦ casting alloy ♦ copper alloy ♦ ferrous alloy ♦ fineness of alloy ♦ fusible alloy ♦ hard alloy ♦ heat treatable alloy ♦ high strength low alloy steels ♦ lead alloy ♦ Newton's alloy ♦ nickel alloy ♦ pleasure without alloy ♦ pyrophoric alloy ♦ remelt alloy ♦ secondary alloy ♦ unalloyed aluminium and aluminium alloy gas cylinders ♦ white alloy ♦ without alloy ♦ Wood's alloy ♦ wrought alloy ♦ zinc alloy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "alloy": alloy-diffused, alloy-junction. | |
Ending with "alloy": all-alloy, copper-alloy. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
alloy | 2,174 | alloy wheel | 36 |
alloy wheels | 688 | alloy rolled | 33 |
eagle alloy | 344 | copper alloy | 32 |
eagle alloy wheels | 186 | alloy wheel repair | 31 |
alloy online | 96 | american eagle alloy | 30 |
aluminum alloy | 89 | zinc alloy | 29 |
alloy rim | 82 | nickel alloy | 29 |
metal alloy | 59 | welding alloy | 27 |
universal alloy | 58 | alloy steel forgings | 26 |
titanium alloy | 53 | aluminum casting alloy | 26 |
eagle alloy rim | 53 | ace alloy wheels | 24 |
alloy light wheels | 47 | alloy quiz | 24 |
alloy magazine | 46 | used alloy wheels | 23 |
alloy fresh | 44 | alloy platinum resembles that | 23 |
limited alloy wheels | 44 | dental alloy | 22 |
alloy clothing | 43 | alloy clothes | 22 |
alloy steel | 42 | bmw alloy wheels | 21 |
alloy light | 41 | alloy xtreme | 21 |
alloy wheels uk | 39 | brazing alloy | 19 |
shape memory alloy | 38 | alloy com | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "alloy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | allooi, alliasie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | aliazh, prish (annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), përziej (admix, adulterate, attemper, beat, blend, commingle, compound, confound, conglomerate, dash, drag in, embark, emulsify, implicate, intermingle, intermix, jumble, knead, malaxate, mingle, mix, shuffle, stir), lidh në aliazh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مريج, زيف (adulterate, artificiality, counterfeit, doctor, fabricate, fake, falsify, falsity, forge, imitate, mockery, sham), خليط معدني, خلط المعادن, خلط (admix, blending, confusion, jumble, metis, mingle, mix, mix up, mixing, mixture, scramble, shuffle), الأشابة, أشب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смесвам (admix, agglomerate, amalgamate, blend, combine, commingle, compound, concrete, fuse, incorporate, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, knead, lump, lump together, merge, mingle, mix, mix up), смесица (amalgam, farrago, gallimaufry, gumbo, intermixture, mash, melange, mess, miscellany, mixture, motley, olio, omnium gatherum, patchwork), смес (admixture, amalgam, commixture, composite, compound, fusion, infusion, intermixture, medley, melange, miscellany, mix, mixture), сплав (composition metal, fusion), развалям (bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), влошавам (aggravate, deteriorate, exacerbate, exaggerate, make worse, worsen), легиран, правя сплав, примес (admixture, adulterant, dash, dross, impurity, infusion, intermixture, touch), помрачавам (bedim, cloud, darken, dim, dull, dusk, eclipse, nip, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shade, shadow, trouble), подправка (condiment, counterfeit, doctor, flavoring, flavouring, forgery, herb, imitation, relish, sauce, seasoning, spice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 合金. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | slitina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | legering (alloy 11). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | legering, metaalmengsel, alliage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | alojo, kunfandaĵo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | málmbland. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معتدل کردن (Season, Temper), ماخذ (Basis, Datum, Source), ترکیب فلزبافلزگرانبها, عیارزدن , عیار (Carat, Rover), الیاژفلزمرکب , الودگی (Impurity, Pollution, Squalor, Stain, Sully), شاءبه , درجه (Degree, Gauge, Gradation, Grade, Length, Mark, Measure, Peg, Point, Proportion, Stair, Step, Thermometer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seos (charge, mix, mixture), lejeerinki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | alliage (alloying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Legierung (alloying), Metallegierung, legieren (merge, thicken, to alloy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κράμα (blend, temper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מס', לס'ס', ס'סו'ת, תך. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ötvözet (amalgam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kadar (amalgam, character, command, degree, gauge, God's will, level, quality), campuran (admixture, amalgam, assortment, blend, composite, concoction, interference, intervention, mash, meddling, medley, mixture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lega (alliance, cartel, combine, confederacy, league, union, waistband). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 合金 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うき" (sleeping together). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 합금 (Alloying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo coveain jeh (alloy metal), co-veain (alloy metal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alloyay liga (bind, bond, coalition, combine, fusion, garter, league, suspender, tie, union). (various references) altera (adulterate, alter, change, corrupt, counterfeit, deprave, distort, forge, spoil, taint), aliaj (mixed metal), alia (ally, partner), adaos (accession, addendum, addition, adjunct, adjunction, admixture, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, attachment, augmentation, codicil, increase, make-weight, rider, rise, schedule, sequel, supplement), standard (norm, standard), probã (argument, assay, attempt, audition, check up, control, event, examination, exemplar, go, instance, pattern, probation, proof, sample, specimen, test, trial, try, verification, witness). (various references) сплав (alligation, drive, fusion, fuss). (various references) topiti (found, liquate, melt, render), mešati (blend, jumble, mingle, mix, puddle, rabble, shuffle, stir), legura. (various references) aleación (composition metal), alear. (various references) legering (alligation, alloying). (various references) alaxim (admixture, mixture), alaşım hazırlamak, alaşım (amalgamation, composite, compound), karışım yapmak, karışım (admixture, amalgam, amalgamation, blend, combo, commixture, concoction, farrago, hodgpodge, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, melange, mix, mixture, potpourri), kaliteyi düşüren şey, halíta, değerini düşürmek (attenuate, bemean, cheap, cheapen, damage, debase, depreciate, detract, devaluate, devalue), değeri azaltan şey, bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references) стоплювати, сплавляти (conflate, float, fuse), сплав, затьмарювати (begloom, blear, cloud, darken, eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, outdazzle, overcast, overcloud, overshade, overshadow, overtop, shade, shadow, shine down), лігатура (bind, ligature), псувати (bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), підмішувати (adulterate, put, weight), проба (analysis, approof, audition, countersign, hallmark, novitiate, plate-mark, proof, proving, taste, tasting, try out), домішка (addition, admixture, adulterant, impurity, intermixture, tinge), додавати домішку. (various references) sự pha trộn (medley, mixture). (various references) aloi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | aleier. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "alloy": alloyed, alloying, alloys. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "alloy": superalloy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "alloy": superalloys, unalloyed. (additional references) | |
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"Alloy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abloy, Aello, Alcoy, Alfy, aliya, alkoxy, allavy, alliby, allii, Allio, alloa, alloc, alloe, allof, alloj, alloym, alloyn, Allwyn, allyl, alo, aloc, alod, aloey, aloi, alol, aloll, Alor, alov, alox, aloy, Alroy, altoy, alty, arloy, ello, Ellory, illo, Lalo, ralloy, Ulloo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: loyal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-l-o-y" | |
-1 letter: ally, olla. | |
-2 letters: all, lay. | |
-3 letters: al, ay, la, lo, oy, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-l-o-y" | |
+1 letter: alloys, orally, ovally. | |
+2 letters: allonym, alloyed, aloofly, callboy, focally, loathly, locally, lovably, loyaler, loyally, loyalty, modally, morally, nodally, payroll, rollway, royally, sallowy, tallboy, tallowy, tallyho, tollway, tonally, totally, vocally, zonally. | |
+3 letters: aborally, algology, allegory, allogamy, allonyms, allotype, allotypy, alloying, amorally, anodally, atonally, ballyhoo, callboys, chorally, clonally, coevally, coitally, collyria, cyclonal, disloyal, dorsally, florally, formally, globally, jovially, ladylove, lobately, locality, lollygag, loveably, loyalest, loyalism, loyalist, molality, mortally, normally, nounally, oblately, ocularly, payrolls, polygala, postally, rollaway, rollways, sailorly, sallowly, socially, tallboys, tallyhos, tollways, tomalley, violably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 6F 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. --- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l o y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 006F 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3578788191 |
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