Metal ˈmetl Made Noun Bre Piece Pipe/Bar/Box Frame

• a piece of metal
• a metal pipe/bar/box
• the frame is made of metal.
• the bomb left a pile of jagged glass and twisted metal.

metal

1. a type of solid mineral substance that is usually hard and shiny and that heat and electricity can travel through, for example tin, iron and gold
• see also heavy metal
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• a piece of metal
• a metal pipe/bar/box
• The frame is made of metal.
2. (to go) at full speed; (to drive) with the accelerator of the car pressed to the floor
• We drove through the night flat-out, with the pedal to the metal.
3. to use as much effort as possible; with as much effort as possible
• I'm still putting the pedal to the metal here at work.

Extra Examples

• The bomb left a pile of jagged glass and twisted metal.
• The doors are made of metal.
• a heap of scrap metal
• a sculptor who works in metal
• a statue cast in metal
• the sound of metal clanging against metal
• the sudden pressure of cold metal against her cheek
• to recycle scrap metal

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French metal or Latin metallum, from Greek metallon ‘mine, quarry, or metal’.