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metal (MET'l) (noun)
A substance, such as gold, tin, or copper, that usually has a shiny appearance, is a good conductor of electricity and heat, can be melted, and is usually capable of being shaped: Scraps and sheets of metal from piles of discarded metal products are being reprocessed.
mettle (MET'l) (noun)
Character, spirit, ardor, courage, stamina; the ability to continue something despite difficulties: This sporting event will test her mettle as a competitor in the upcoming winter event.
Under such stress, Marjory revealed an unexpected mettle.
Is it metal or mettle that is needed in stressful situations?
Did the Norsemen have mettle, or metal, craftiness, and good ships?
The most common error is to use metal in the sense of showing or trying one's physical and mental hardiness; so, remember that to show your mettle, you should be in sound physical condition.
This entry is located in the following unit:
Confusing Words Clarified: Group M; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
(page 3)
Units related to:
“metal”
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, alumen, a substance having an astringent taste; metal)
(Greek: chemical element; antimonos, opposed to solitude; symbol Sb is from Latin stibium [powdered antimony]; some say antimony means, “a metal seldom found alone”; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, baros, heavy; because its compounds are dense; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, beryllus, and Greek, beryllos, gem; metal)
(German: Wismut [wise, “meadow”] plus [mut, “claim to a mine”]; changed to bismat; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, cadmia, earthy or earth; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, calx, calcis, lime; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, caesius, bluish gray; sky blue; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, chroma, color; because many of its compounds are colored; metal)
(German: Kobalt; also Kobolt, a goblin, evil spirit, or malicious sprite; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, cuprum, referring to the island of Cyprus; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; Gallia, the Latin name for the area that became France after the fall of the Roman Empire; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Germany; metal)
(Anglo-Saxon: gold, Sanskrit juel, to shine; the symbol is from Latin aurum, shining down; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Hafnia, the Latinized name of Copenhagen; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, indicum, indigo [a blue Indian dye]; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, iris, a "rainbow", because of the changing color of its salts; metal)
(Anglo-Saxon: iron, the symbol is from Latin ferrum which also means iron; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lithos, "stone, stony"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, Magnesia, a district in Asia Minor; metal)
(Latin: magnes, "magnet"; because of confusion with magnetic iron ores; or magnesia nigri, meaning "black magnesia"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, molybdos, "lead"; metal)
(German: Nickel, name for "Satan"; kupfernickel, meaning "Devil’s copper" or "St Nicholas’s (Old Nick’s) copper"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the goddess, Niobe, daughter of Tantalus. This element is also known as columbium; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, osme, "smell", "malodorousness", "stink"; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, named in honor of the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered at about the same time; and for Pallas, the Greek goddess of wisdom; metal)
(Modern Latin: a diminutive of the Spanish plata, "silver", "platina"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for potash, a compound of potassium; the symbol is from Latin kalium; from Arabic, gilf, and a reference to the charred ashes of the saltwort; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin Rhenus, in honor of the Rhine River in Germany; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, rhodon, "rose"; in reference to the red color of its salts; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin rubidus, "red"; from the red lines in its spectrum; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ruthenia [Latin for Russia] in the Urals, where one was first found; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Scandinavia; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, sealfor, siolfur; the symbol is from Latin argentum, "silver"; metal)
(Modern Latin: English, soda, compound of sodium; the symbol comes from Latin natrium; "a salt"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Strontian, "a village in Scotland"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the mythical king Tantalus [who in the Greek myths was tortured by being placed in water up to his chin, which he was never able to drink, whence the word “tantalize”]; because of the element’s insolubility or “to illustrate the tantalizing work he had until he succeeded in isolating this element”; metal)
(Modern Latin: tellus, the "earth"; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, thallos, "a young, or green, twig or shoot" [based on the color of its spectrum]; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, tin; symbol from Latin stannum; meaning “tin”; metal)
(Modern Latin: from the Titans of classical mythology; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Swedish, tung sten, "heavy stone"; the symbol is from German Wolfram;, named for the tungsten mineral wolframite; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the Scandinavian goddess Vanadis; metal)
(Modern Latin: from German, zink; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Arabic, zargun, "gold color"; metal)
(Greek: mineral, metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, aktis, aktinos ray; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; a form of America; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Niels Henrik Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the University of California and named for California and the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Pierre and Marie Curie; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named after the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, Russia; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Albert Einstein; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for France; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from a Latin word Hassias meaning “Hess”, the German state of Hessen; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Ernest Lawrence, an American physicist and inventor of the cyclotron; radioactive metal)
(Latin: named for Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléyev, a Russian chemist who contributed so much to the development of the periodic table; radioactive metal)
(Latin: named for the Roman god Mercurius; the symbol is from Latin hydrargyrum, "liquid silver"; liquid metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Neptune, the first planet beyond Uranus; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Alfred Nobel; the discovery was made at the Nobel Institute; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Pluto; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named by Murie Curie for her native Poland; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the Greek god Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven [the sun] for mankind; radioactive metal rare earth)
(Modern Latin: some say it comes from Greek proto, "first"; plus actinium, "ray"; so, “first actinium”; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin radius, meaning “ray”, because of its intense radioactivity; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist and chemist; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999), an American nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, technetos, "artificial"; the first man-made artificial element; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Thor, the Norse god of thunder; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Uranus; radioactive metal)
(Greek: to drive, strike, beat out; general application is "beaten metal, metal plate")
(Greek > Modern Latin: lead [the metal])
(Latin: lead, the metal; Pb)
(Latin: shield; a broad piece of metal or another suitable material, held by straps or a handle attached on one side, used as a protection against blows or missiles.)
Word Entries containing the term:
“metal”
electronic locator, metal detector, metal locator, radio metal locator
1. An electronic instrument used for detecting concealed metal objects; such as, guns, knives, or buried pipelines, generally by radiating a high-frequency electromagnetic field and then detecting the change produced in that field by the ferrous or nonferrous metal object that the user is looking for.
2. A portable electronic device with a search head that is swept over the ground and used to detect buried metal objects such as coins.
3. An electronic device that registers the presence of metal; used, for example, to detect metal weapons or to screen passengers at an airport.
4. An electronic tool used in the food industry to check for the presence of pieces of metal that might have accidentally gotten into food during the processing activities.
2. A portable electronic device with a search head that is swept over the ground and used to detect buried metal objects such as coins.
3. An electronic device that registers the presence of metal; used, for example, to detect metal weapons or to screen passengers at an airport.
4. An electronic tool used in the food industry to check for the presence of pieces of metal that might have accidentally gotten into food during the processing activities.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
(page 65)
-tron, -tronic, -tronics +
(page 10)