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Original entry ↗To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
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. · Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy. · An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium. · Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars. · Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
Etymology tree Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon)der. Latin metallum Old French metalbor. Middle English metal English metal From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
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