Word Meanings - METALLIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic

Additional info about word: METALLIC

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic iron. -- Metallic paper, paper covered with a thin solution of lime, whiting, and size. When written upon with a pewter or brass pencil, the lines can hardly be effaced. -- Metallic tinking , a sound heard in the chest, when a cavity communicating with the air passages contains both air and liquid. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of METALLIC)

• Resonant
• Resounding
• sonorous
• musical
• metallic
• vibratory
• acoustic
• shrill
• loud
• sharp
• vocal
• ringing

Related words: (words related to METALLIC)

• RINGWORM
  A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• RINGHEAD
  An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
• SHRILLNESS
  The quality or state of being shrill.
• RING ARMATURE
  An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• RINGER
  A crowbar. Simmonds. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
• MUSICAL
  1. Music. To fetch home May with their musical. Spenser. 2. A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• RINGTOSS
  A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• VOCALIST
  A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
• RESONANT
  Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.
• RINGING
  a & n. from Ring, v. Ringing engine, a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.
• RINGBILL
  The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• WRINGING
  a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
• SYRINGOCOELE
  The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
• NIGHT-FARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• SUSURRINGLY
  In the manner of a whisper.
• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• GEER; GEERING
  See GEARING
• PORRINGER
  A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• TWITTERING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• EMBERINGS
  Ember days.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• LUMBERING
  The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
• ENCORPORING
  Incorporation. Chaucer.