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Definition: Metallic |
MetallicAdjective1. Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal; "a metallic compound"; "metallic luster"; "the strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades"- Ambrose Bierce. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "metallic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | General term applied to finishes containing aluminum particles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Flavour that is reminiscent of metal. Characteristic of oils which have been in prolonged contact, under unsuitable conditions, with foodstuffs or metallic surfaces during crushing, mixing, pressing or storage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A term used to describe metal particles, such as gold in ores b. (adj.) The adj. indicates that the noun it modifies possesses metallic properties. These properties often include a metallike luster, conduction of electricity, tensile strength, opacity, and malleability, although some metallic materials may possess only a few such characteristics. c. When used with "mineral" in the context of resources, e.g., metallic mineral, it has a different and special meaning; it refers to the product, not the mineralogy. Thus chalcopyrite, CuFeS2 , is metallic (in the sense above), and the copper and iron it contains are metallic minerals in the resource sense. A single mineral, such as chalcopyrite, may also be the source of a nonmetal, sulfur. Adding to the confusion, rutile (TiO 2 ) is the source of both titanium, which is used as metallic titanium, and titanium oxide, which is used as a nonmetallic mineral pigment. Because many industrial minerals (in a resource sense) tend to be nonmetallic (in either the mineralogical or the resource sense), the terms "industrial minerals" and "nonmetallic minerals" are sometimes carelessly used interchangeably. CF:mineral; nonmetallic mineral;industrial minerals. Syn:metalliferous e.g., metallic mineral, it has a different and special meaning; it refers to the product, not the mineralogy. Thus chalcopyrite, CuFeS2 , is metallic (in the sense above), and the copper and iron it contains are metallic minerals in the resource sense. A single mineral, such as chalcopyrite, may also be the source of a nonmetal, sulfur. Adding to the confusion, rutile (TiO 2 ) is the source of both titanium, which is used as metallic titanium, and titanium oxide, which is used as a nonmetallic mineral pigment. Because many industrial minerals (in a resource sense) tend to be nonmetallic (in either the mineralogical or the resource sense), the terms "industrial minerals" and "nonmetallic minerals" are sometimes carelessly used interchangeably. CF:mineral; nonmetallic mineral;industrial minerals. Syn:metalliferous. (references) |
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Heavy Metal is a form of rock music characterized by aggressive, driving rhythms, highly amplified guitars, and often dark thematic elements.
Heavy metal is an evolutionary product of pop, blues and classical music. Its first wave, between 1967 and 1974, was a product of pop and blues, while the classical element came to the fore in the later 1970s. By approximately 1990 most heavy metal had evolved into other hard rock genres, notably grunge.
The origin of the term heavy metal is uncertain. According to one version, it was coined by a critic for Rolling Stone Magazine, who in 1967 said that the music of Jimi Hendrix was "like heavy metal falling from the sky". Others references have been the words "heavy metal thunder" in the 1968 Steppenwolf song "Born to be Wild", or the William S. Burroughs story "The Heavy Metal Kid". The word "heavy" (meaning serious or profound) had entered beatnik/counterculture slang some time earlier, and references to "heavy music" -- typically slower, more amplified variations of standard pop fare -- were already common; indeed, Iron Butterfly's 1968 debut album was entitled Heavy. The fact that Led Zeppelin (whose moniker came partly in reference to Keith Moon's jest that they would "go over like a lead balloon) incorporated a heavy metal into its name may have sealed the usage of the term.
Regardless of its origin, heavy metal may have been used as a jibe initially but was quickly adopted by its adherents. Other, already-established bands, such as Deep Purple, who had origins in pop or progressive rock, immediately took on the heavy metal mantle, adding distortion and additional amplification in a more aggressive approach.
The explosion of guitar virtuosity founded in the leadership of pioneer Jimi Hendrix a music generation earlier was ushered to the fore by Eddie Van Halen, and many consider his 1978 solo appropriately called Eruption as the significant new dawn in heavy metal history. Ritchie Blackmore (formerly of Deep Purple), Randy Rhodes (w/ pioneer Ozzy Osbourne) and Yngwie Malmsteen went on to solidify this explosion of virtuoso guitar work. All of a sudden, classical guitars, even nylon-stringed guitars, were commonplace at heavy metal concerts, and classical icons such as Liona Boyd became associated with the heavy metal stars as peers in a newly diverse guitar fraternity where conservative and aggressive guitarists could come together to "trade licks" (recently MP3.com featured a collection of Ms. Boyd's music which featured her collaboration with such rock stars as Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and legend Eric Clapton, as further evidence of the open associations that cross musical genre divisions among the respective leaders).
This explosion would cool down in the music of Ronnie James Dio (who himself had a tenure at lead vocals with the legendary Black Sabbath) and continue to settle towards Iron Maiden, who may be the final and complete consummation of "pure" heavy metal in the lineage of the "grandfathers" - Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. After Maiden, metal would push the limits of aggressive loudness in thrash metal, speed metal, black metal and death metal, and return full circle through the pop vanity of the L.A. hair metal lead by Motley Crue to the poppish Bon Jovi. Grunge evolved out of Seattle in the work of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. During the 1980s, hair metal dominated the music charts in much of the world, and superstars like Def Leppard and Guns n' Roses helped lead the way. While their music has endured as representative of a particular view, time and place, hair metal is not typically considered a particularly pure or well-executed form of metal. Grunge music appeared as a popularized endpoint of the punk rock-influenced alternative rock music of the 1990 which fought any mainstream influence (seen as "selling out")articularly reacted against overly-aggressive and increasingly formulaic hair metal bands from Ratt to Extreme.
Cover versions of classic rock songs would become a standard part of many metal bands' repertoire. Notable is Mötley Crüe's version of "Helter Skelter" which very strongly brings to the fore the heavy metal undertones that the Beatles original song implied but failed to explore in their time.
An important element to be remembered is that heavy metal is considered by many to be primarily white, in opposition to the blues-based rock which derives from African-American music. This only means that the majority of the audience and the players are white. There are, however, several examples of bands that have broken this mold and the audiences can be quite mixed -- Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott and Living Colour are good examples, though many point out that these two are the only two examples of black heavy metal musicians to achieve significant, long-term success, and this defense of heavy metal is then denigrated as being a presentation of a few token exceptions, rather than a refutation of the rule.
If the audio/thematic components of heavy metal are predominantly blues-influenced reality, then the visual component is predominantly pop-influenced fantasy. The themes of darkness, evil, power, and apocalypse are fantastic language components for addressing the reality of life's problems. Further, in reaction to the "peace and love" hippie culture of the 1960s, heavy metal developed as a counterculture, where light is supplanted by darkness, and the happy ending of pop is replaced by the naked reality that things don't always work out in this world. While fans claim that the medium of darkness is not the message, critics have accused the genre of glorifying the negative aspects of reality.
Heavy metal themes are more grave than fluffy pop from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, focusing on war, nuclear annihilation, environmental issues, political and religious propaganda. Black Sabbath's "War Pigs", Ozzy Osbourne's "Killer of Giants" are examples serious contributions to the discussion of the state of affairs. The commentary on reality sometimes tends to become over-simplified because the fantastic poetic vocabulary of heavy metal deals primarily with very clear dichotomies of light and dark, hope and despair, good and evil, which don't make much room for complex shades of gray.
As heavy metal gave in to the dark, hopeless despair of reality, it evolved into heavier, more brooding forms like thrash metal and death metal.
Some might differentiate by observing that pure heavy metal doesn't generally sing about love, while many hair metal songs are focused on love. In some respects, one might argue that the hair metal scene of the 80s was the logical endpoint of the glitter or glam rock movement of the 70s; the visual similarities between the two, with the make-up and fanciful costumes, makes the argument more compelling. Glitter rock, however, was lyrically focused on sexual ambiguity, free expression and individuality, while hair metal was unambiguously macho and heterosexual, with little room for diversity of political or social opinions. Ultimately, "pure" heavy metal would position itself at the periphery of pop culture, never quite at center, and metal denizens contend that the move towards the center was a commercialism that compromised both the artistic integrity of the form and the opportunity for messages to be taken seriously.
The Encarta encyclopedia claims that "when a text was associated with the music, Bach could write musical equivalents of verbal ideas". As heavy metal uses apocalyptic themes and images of power and darkness, the ability to translate verbal ideas into musical ideas that successfully convey the ideas of the words is critical to heavy metal authenticity and credibility. An excellent example of this is the theme album Powerslave, by Iron Maiden. The cover is of a dramatic Egyptian pyramid scene, and many of the songs on the album have subject matter that requires a sound suggestive of life and death, including a song entitled "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The American band Grand Funk Railroad epitomised early heavy metal, and set an alternative benchmark in which the volume of the music was seen as the important factor rather than its musical qualities; though this influence is often denigrated as pointless extravagance, it has proven enormously influential and still dominates many people's perceptions of the genre.
Cultural Impact
Heavy metal's bombastic excesses, exemplified by hair metal, have been parodied numerous times, most famously in the movie This Is Spinal Tap. However, see also the phenomenon of the heavy metal umlaut.
Douglas Adams neatly satirised this propensity for excessive volume in The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy with the fictional rock band Disaster Area - creators of the loudest sound in the known universe. It should be noted however, that Adams was satirising Pink Floyd stage shows specifically - rather than metal in general.
Glitter rock, a short-lived era in the mid-1970s, is the extreme exploration of the fantasy-side of the reality-fantasy parents of heavy metal. Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Alice Cooper and Kiss are among the more popular standard examples of this sub-genre.
Punk rock is a related form which arose from some of the pioneers, including The Stooges, Blue Cheer, Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls and The Sex Pistols exploring the politically-charged reality of darkness. Though punk rock and heavy metal began as linked genres of disaffected youth, punk quickly diverged as a reaction against the perceived bombastic arena rock of 1970s heavy metal bands. Heavy metal also had an important influence on grunge which, like punk, was partly a reaction to the slickness and corporate nature of much rock music.
In the early 80s the New Wave of British Heavy Metal made metal music very popular (especially in Europe) with bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Motörhead. This period is often considered the pinnacle of the heavy metal form with earlier metal symbolizing the upward slope, and subsequent derivative sub-genres dissolving into distant relatives of the original form. Sub-genres of heavy metal are numerous, though crossovers from other heavy metal and non-metal genres are frequent:
Heavy metal dance styles:
- Thrash metal - a very aggressive and rhythm-based style of metal that includes Slayer, Overkill and early Metallica and Megadeth.
- Power metal - clean vocals and hymn-like choruse, while the lyrics are often based on fantasy or science fiction themes. The most famous bands include Helloween, Blind Guardian and Hammerfall, all of them continental European, and Iced Earth coming from the US.
- Death metal - extreme music with low-pitched guitars and growling vocals. There is no common theme in the lyrics, they range from splatter (Cannibal Corpse) and war (Bolt Thrower) to Christian motives (Mortification). Besides the mentioned, Death, Morbid Angel and Entombed are other important bands.
- Black metal - a precise definition for this style is very hard to give. One approach is strictly based on the lyrics, which are Satanic and otherwise occult. Bands include Mayhem, Darkthrone and Venom.
- Nu metal - newest form of heavy metal, usually features down tuned guitars (7 string guitars are common), sampling artists/DJs and angst-ridden, hip hop-influenced vocals of bands like Korn, Fear Factory, Papa Roach, Staind, Skid Row, Orgy, System of a Down, Drowning Pool and Limp Bizkit.
- Goth metal - fusion of the bleak, icy atmospherics of goth rock with the loud guitars and aggression of heavy metal, finding the middle ground between the two styles in a melodramatic sense of theater and lyrical obsessions with religion and horror. Bands include Theatre of Tragedy, Paradise Lost, Lacrimosa and My Dying Bride.
- Doom metal - inspired largely by the lumbering dirges and stoned, paranoid darkness of Black Sabbath, and one of the very few heavy metal subgenres to prize feel and mood more than flashy technique, doom metal bands include Candlemass, Cathedral and Anathema.
- Epic Metal - lying between doom metal and classical American heavy metal with a balance between slow and solemn hymns and the occasional outburst into powerful mid-tempos, epic metal includes epic and some fantasy; they're not the only themes, however, and lighter elements like bikes, women, and a healthy amount of self-apology are just as frequent. Bands include (early) Manowar_(band), (early) Virgin Steele, Cirith Ungol, Omen and Medieval Steel from the US, some Bathory (the Viking themed albums) from Sweden and more recently DoomSword from Italy.
- Neo-classical metal - the traditional toolbox of metal song-writing is used in neo-classical metal, but with a twist: all of it takes place in a structure that is heavily influenced by baroque music. The chord progressions, arpeggios, broken chords, and speedy scale runs of neo-classical metal are borrowed for the most part from Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Niccolo Paganini. Although Yngwie J. Malmsteen is the most well-known proponent of this branch of metal, classical elements used in heavy metal and hard rock date back to Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Eddie Van Halen's innovations in the late 1970s.
- Speed metal - focusing on instrumental virtuosity and featuring riffs and solos played extremely fast, speed metal is exemplified by the twin lead guitars of Judas Priest and Motörhead.
- Progressive metal - combining elements of progressive rock and heavy metal, progressive metal bands include Dream Theater, Symphony X, Stratovarius and DragonForce.
- Glam metal - frequently if derisively known as hair metal, glam focused on stage craft and appearance (leather, spandex, long hair and makeup being very common), and generally used a lot of "feel good" rhythms and catchy lyrics. Bands include Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Skid Row, Poison, Dokken, Greg Howe, Vixen, and Cinderella among many others.
- Christian metal - including a wide range of styles based on many of the genres above but with explicitly Christian lyrics (rather than anti-Christian or merely explicit lyrics).
- Stoner metal - including heavy, sometimes slow and sludgily distorted riffs and the obvious influence of psychedelic music, creating a sound that is strongly reminiscent of the 1970s metal of Black Sabbath, Budgie, and similar bands. Important bands include Cathedral, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, and Monster Magnet.
- Industrial Metal - Fusion of electronic dance music, Techno, and heavy, distorted guitars. Synthesizers and drum machines are heavily used in this sub-genre. Nine Inch Nails, Fear Factory and Rammstein are but a few of the key artists of this genre.
- Hardcore / Metalcore - Raw, charged-up music with influences from Thrash, Death Metal and Hardcore punk. Key artists of this genre are Killswitch Engage, Chimaira, Nothingface and Machinehead.
- Folk metal - not many examples of this genre which comprises of a mix between folk melodies/instruments with the charactersistic powercords of Metal. Skyclad is probably the most known band in this genre. A related genre has evolved in Germany, fusing modern metal and medieval (German) music. Proponents of this genre include Subway to Sally and In Extremo, but they are not well-known outside Central Europe because of their singing in German.
- Viking metal
- Hard rock
- Alternative metal
- True metal - This term was coined in the 1990s, when fusions of metal and techno or metal and hiphop were dominating the charts, and its original use was probably to distinguish between such fusions and the more traditional metal from the 1980s. It is not exactly clear what true metal means - it seems to hover somwhere between epic metal power metal. The term is also misleading because it seems to imply that all other metal genres are "false".
Nicknames for fans of the Heavy metal genre:
- Headbanging
- Moshing
- Crowd surfing
- Stage diving
- Headbanger
- Metaller
- Metalhead
- Hard rocker
- Rocker
See also:
- List of heavy metal musicians
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heavy metal music."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A metal is an element that readily forms cations and bonds ionically. The metals are one of the three groups of elements as distinguished by their ionization and bonding properties, along with the metalloids and nonmetals. On the periodic table, a diagonal line drawn from boron (B) to polonium (Po) separates the metals from the nonmetals. Elements on this line are metalloids, sometimes called semi-metals; elements to the lower left are metals; elements to the upper right are nonmetals.
Metals have certain characteristic physical properties: they are usually shiny, have a high density, are ductile and malleable, usually have a high melting point, are usually hard, and conduct electricity and heat well. These properties are mainly because each atom exerts only a loose hold on its outermost electrons (valence electrons); thus, the valence electrons form a sort of sea around the atoms. Most metals are chemically stable, with the notable exception of the alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, found in the leftmost two groups of the periodic table.
Nonmetals are more abundant in nature than are metals, but metals in fact constitute most of the periodic table. Some well-known metals are aluminium, copper, gold, iron, lead, silver, titanium, uranium, and zinc.
An alloy is a mixture with metallic properties that contains at least one metal element. Examples of alloys are steel (iron and carbon), brass (copper and zinc), bronze (copper and tin), and duralumin (aluminium and copper). Alloys specially designed for highly demanding applications, such as jet engines, may contain more than ten elements.
The oxides of metals are basic; those of nonmetals are acidic. The allotropes of metals tend to be lustrous, ductile, malleable, and good conductorss, while nonmetals generally speaking are brittle (for solid nonmetals), lack luster, and are insulators.
In astronomy, a metal is any element other than hydrogen or helium. This distinction is significant because hydrogen and helium (together with trace amounts of lithium) are the only elements that occur naturally without the fusion activity of stars. Thus, the metallicity of a galaxy or other object is an indication of past stellar activity.
See also: Metal-rich
Metal is also one of the Chinese five elements, though in that context the word has a much less literal meaning.
Road metal is the name of stone chippings mixed with tar to form the road surfacing material tarmac. A road of such material is called a "metalled road" in British usage. The word metal is derived from the Latin metallum, which means both "mine" and "quarry", hence the roadbuilding terminology.
Metal or Heavy Metal is also a genre of music. See: heavy metal music
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Metal."
Synonym: MetallicSynonym: metal(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonmetallic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Metallic |
| English words defined with "metallic": Metallic phosphorus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "metallic": metallic luster, metallic minerals, metallic ore. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "metallic": Pseudo-metallic. (references) |
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 | The tools of the trade for navigating during launch hydrography Metallic and plastic three-arm protractors for plotting three-point fixes Sextant in background 1931 Hydrographic Manual. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Plotting three-point sextant fix with metallic three-arm protractor On the FATHOMER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Hal Demuth on the left and Miller Tonkel plotting hydrography Note metallic three-arm protractor. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Plate 3. Clement metallic thermometer - cross sectional schematic of the model at the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco. The model at the museum was constructed by Negretti and Zambra in 1912 after the original made in 1839 by Leander Clement, the clock maker of Rochefort. The thermometer functioned by comparing the expansion (or contraction) of two strips of different types of metal. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 62. Breguet-Saxton metallic thermometer first invented about 1817 by the instrument maker Louis Abraham Breguet. The first of this type was composed of platinum, silver, and gold with the silver placed in the center. Differential expansion of the metals provided the temperature measurement. In 1848, Joseph Saxton made a similar one for the U. S. Coast Survey but it was inaccurate. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Distillation by means of a metallic still. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The quartet slipped from their pockets certain metallic objects --. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two office buildings for B.F. Saul (15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Cast iron pilaster and rosettes. Details] / Dahlstrom Metallic Door Co., Jamestown, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Legs of dissected frogs, and various metallic apparatus used to measure what was thought to be electricity flowing in animals. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Electrical prospecting for metallic minerals may be carried on by using the dual coil radiometer to measure the electro-magnetic field of the earth, as it may be influenced by the presence of an ore body. Student. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Metallic texture" by Ren Schroeder Commentary: "Screwed metallic patchwork." | "Animal print frame" by Themis Gatzoulis Commentary: "Photo of a metallic picture frame with cow animal print inside." |
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 | Ambient texture with repetitive keyboard line and metallic bells in background. | | Metallic and low drums playing an ostinato pattern for a synthesized flute melody. |
| A repetitive metallic melody with ray gun style tones in background. | | A bell struck with a metallic beater and allowed to sustain. |
| Metallic zing sound. | | A scratching, bright, and metallic sound. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was a multitude of dull rubbings, which gave a metallic sound, as if claws and teeth were grinding the copper wire |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The light grew stronger outside, a gray metallic light |
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Health | In contrast to metallic cobalt, cesium is a salt, which means it can dissolve in water. (references) | |
Given its relatively short half life(5 years) and its stable metallic form, the material is not considered to be a problematic waste. (references) | ||
The most studied mechanism of stimulation of acupuncture points employs penetration of the skin by thin, solid, metallic needles, which are manipulated manually or by electrical stimulation. (references) | ||
Business | Metallic structures, parts for wind generators, lead acid batteries, solar heaters and collectors are produced locally. (references) | |
The market grew by 10 percent in 1998, largely due to the disposal of animal carcass flour, metallic hydroxide sludge and foundry sludge. (references) | ||
In addition, Ensenada has abundant reserves of metallic and non-metallic minerals, including precious metals, metals for industrial use, and quarry products. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mexico | Baja California has abundant reserves of metallic and non-metallic minerals, including precious metals, metals for industrial use and quarry products. (references) |
Canada | Canadian FDI in the United States is concentrated in finance and insurance, metallic minerals and metal products, communications, and chemical products. (references) | |
Ireland | Most promising sub-sectors include domestic electrical appliances, ceramic products, hand tools, metallic cookware, plastic housewares and gardening products. (references) | |
Trade | Jordan | Imports of raw leather are restricted to the Jordan Tanning Company; crude oil and its derivatives (except metallic oils) and household gas cylinders are restricted to the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company; cement is restricted to the Jordan Cement Factories Company; explosives and gun powder are restricted to the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company; and used tires are restricted to tire retreading factories. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutoeus maximus. |
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| "Metallic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.29% of the time. "Metallic" is used about 425 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.29% | 422 | 13,494 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.71% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 425 | N/A |
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Expressions using "metallic": metallic absorption ♦ metallic bond ♦ metallic coin ♦ metallic concentrate ♦ metallic element ♦ metallic iron ♦ metallic lustre ♦ metallic paper ♦ metallic phosphorus ♦ metallic sound ♦ metallic sulphide ♦ metallic thermometer ♦ metallic tinking. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "metallic": metallic-based, metallic-blue, metallic-coloured, metallic-funky, metallic-looking, metallic-sounding, metallic-type. | |
Ending with "metallic": non-metallic. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "metallic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | metalik (metal, metalline, methyl, Tin-pan). (various references) | |
Arabic | معدني (brazen, mineral), صلب (adamant, aguish, callosity, callous, cast iron, concrete, consolidate, corneous, cross oneself, crucifixion, crucify, cruel, firm, harden, horny, inflexible, loin, out and out, persistent, ramrod, resistant, rigid, robust, sear, solid, solidary, stabile, stark, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, temper, tenacious, tough, unkind, unyielding), رنان (orotund, pompous, pretentious, puffy, resonant, ringing, sonorous, sounding, swelling, vibrant). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рязък (abrupt, acid, bitter, brief, brusque, curt, gravelly, hard, incisive, jarring, jerky, offhand, pipy, point blank, rapid, rude, sharp, short, short-spoken, shrill, snappish, snappy, snippy, stark, straight out, strident, trenchant), като метал, остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), метален (metal). (various references) | |
Chinese | 金属 (cladding, metal, Metallical). (various references) | |
Czech | plechový (tinny), kovový (metal). (various references) | |
Danish | metallisk. (various references) | |
Dutch | metalen (metal). (various references) | |
Esperanto | metala (metal). (various references) | |
Faeroese | málmkendur (metal). (various references) | |
Farsi | فلزی (Metal). (various references) | |
Finnish | metallinen (metal). (various references) | |
French | métallique. (various references) | |
German | metallisch (metal, metally). (various references) | |
Greek | μεταλλικόσ (mineral), μεταλλικός, μεταλλική. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתכתי (brassy, brazen, tinny). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fémes (metalline). (various references) | |
Italian | metallico (tinny). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | メタクリル樹脂 (metafiction, metafont, metal, metal frame, metal tape, metal wood, meta-level, metallic color, metallic skis, metamorphose, metaphor, metaphysical, metaphysics, metasequoia, methacrylic resin, methane, methane gas, methanol, methanphetamine). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | メタリック . (various references) | |
Korean | 금속 (metal, Metallical). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etallicmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | metálico (metal, tinny, wiry). (various references) | |
Romanian | metalic (loud, wiry). (various references) | |
Russian | металлический (metal, metalline, tin-pan). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | metalik, metalan (metal). (various references) | |
Spanish | metálico (brassy, metal, metalline, specie). (various references) | |
Swedish | metallisk (tinny). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับโลหะ. (various references) | |
Turkish | metâlik, madenli (quick), madeni (brazen, mineral). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | металічний (brassy, tinny). (various references) | |
Welsh | metelaidd. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "metallic": metallically, metallics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "metallic": bimetallic, intermetallic, monometallic, multimetallic, nonmetallic, organometallic, semimetallic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "metallic": bimetallics, intermetallics, organometallics. (additional references) | |
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"Metallic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Machalik, matallic, Matlala, mayall-ish, Meenaleck, Mefalle, mentalix, metalic, metalik, metaller, metallica, metallics, metallik, metallin, metallised, metallist, metalllic, metally, metelic, Metella, Metelli, Methlick, Metwali, Mutalov, Retallack, Retallick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "metallic" (pronounced muta"lik) |
| 5 | -t a" l i k | italic. |
| 4 | -a" l i k | Alec, anencephalic, gallic, phallic. |
| 3 | -l i k | acrylic, alcoholic, allelic, anabolic, angelic, bucolic, catholic, diastolic, frolic, garlic, hydraulic, hydrophilic, hyperbolic, idyllic, melancholic, metabolic, nonalcoholic, nonpublic, parabolic, pedophilic, phenolic, psychedelic, public, relic, shashlik, symbolic, vitriolic, workaholic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-m-t" | |
-1 letter: climate, metical, micella. | |
-2 letters: atelic, callet, camlet, malice, mallei, mallet, micell, millet, taille, telial. | |
-3 letters: amice, camel, cella, celli, claim, cleat, clime, eclat, email, ileac, ileal, lilac, macle, maile, maill, malic, melic, metal, mille, telia, telic, tical. | |
-4 letters: acme, alec, alit, alme, amie, call, calm, came, cate, ceil, cell, celt, cite, clam, clit, emic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-m-t" | |
+1 letter: collimate, metallics. | |
+2 letters: allometric, bimetallic, collimated, collimates, emetically, metrically. | |
+3 letters: bimetallics, gametically, homiletical, meiotically, mimetically, misallocate, nonmetallic, thermically. | |
+4 letters: compellation, cosmetically, cumulatively, domestically, emblematical, empathically, emphatically, etymological, hermetically, illegitimacy, immaculately, magnetically, majestically, meristically, metallically, meteorically, methodically, metrological, misallocated, misallocates, miscalculate, miscellanist, monometallic, multichannel, multinuclear, multivalence, myeloblastic, semantically, semimetallic, systemically, thematically. | |
+5 letters: alchemistical, bimetallistic, cinematically, circumstellar, circumvallate, climatologies, compellations, complicatedly, diametrically, enigmatically, entomological, enzymatically, epistemically, geometrically, hematological, implicatively, incrementally, intermetallic, isometrically, kinematically, megaloblastic, metabolically, metallurgical, metamerically, miscalculated, miscalculates, miscellanists, multicellular, multichannels, multimetallic, multinucleate, multiparticle, multispectral, multivalences, mutagenically, myoelectrical, nematological, pneumatically, problematical, rheumatically, schematically, semipolitical, semitonically, symmetrically, telefacsimile. | |
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