Metal vs Clew - What's the difference?
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(lb) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
#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.
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#*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
#(lb) Any element other than hydrogen and helium,Majewski, S. R. (2003, 2006).
#Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
#(lb) The ore from which a metal is derived.
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#(lb) A mine from which ores are taken.
#*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
#*:slavesand persons condemned to metals
(lb) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or.
Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
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(lb) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong, fast drum-beats and distorted guitars.
(lb) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper; mettle.
*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
*:LEONATO. Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
*:BEATRICE. Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust?
The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
The rails of a railway.
The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
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(music) Characterized by strong, fast drum-beats and distorted guitars.
Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
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(obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
* c. 1600 , , tr. Richard Surflet, Maison Rustique, or, The Countrie Farme :
* 1796 , , The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam :
(archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
* c. 1604-5 , , All's Well That Ends Well , Act 1, Scene 3:
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Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
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* 1766 , , The Sermons of Mr. Yorick :
* 1841 , , The Murders in the Rue Morgue :
* 1870 , , History of the Norman Conquest :
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* 1926 , Robertus Love, The Rise and Fall of Jesse James , University of Nebraska, 1990:
(nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. On a triangular sail, the clew is the trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
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(in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
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(nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
* 2000 , Ralph W Danklefsen, The Navy I Remember , Xlibris 2000, p. 21:
* 1864 , Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective :
* 1910 , "Duck Eats Yeast," The Yakima Herald :
* Macaulay
to roll into a ball
(nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
As nouns the difference between metal and clew
is that metal is (lb) chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from while clew is (obsolete) a roughly spherical mass or body.As verbs the difference between metal and clew
is that metal is to make a road using crushed rock, stones etc while clew is to roll into a ball.As a adjective metal
is (music) characterized by strong, fast drum-beats and distorted guitars.metal
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(wikipedia metal)Noun
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Antonyms
* (any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms) nonmetalDerived terms
* death metal * heavy metal * metalcore * metallic * metallo- * metalware * noble metal * [[nu metal], /nu-metal * pot metal * power metal * thrash metal * transition metalReferences
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(metall)clew
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Noun
(en noun)- If the whole troupe be diuided into many clewes , or round bunches, you need not then doubt but that there are many kings.
- Both these creatures, by forming themselves in a clew , have often more the appearance of excrescences in the bark, than that of animals.
- If it be ?o, you have wound a goodly clew :
If it be not, for?wear't: howe'er, I charge thee,
- A rare, precious, and never interrupted race of philosophers to whom wisdom, like another Ariadne, seems to have given a clew of thread which they have been walking along unwinding since the beginning of the world, through the labyrinth of human affairs.
- The Fairy Paribanou was at that time very hard at work, and, as she had several clews' of thread by her, she took up one, and, presenting it to Prince Ahmed, said: "First take this ' clew of thread...
- on one side of her lay a pair of carpet slippers and on the other a ball of red wool, the leading filament of which she would tug at every now and then with the immemorial elbow jerk of a Zemblan knitter to give a turn to her yarn clew and slacken the thread.
- Therto have I a remedie in my thoght,
That, by a clewe of twyne, as he hath goon,
The same wey he may returne anoon,
Folwing alwey the threed, as he hath come.
- With this clew , let us endeavour to unravel this character of Herod as here given.
- To this horrible mystery there is not as yet, we believe, the slightest clew .
- We may here have lighted on the clew to the great puzzle.
- They had followed immediately behind him, thinking it barely possible that his actions might prove a clew to my whereabouts...
- And I brought the only clew to be found.
- Not often did Jesse James leave a clew to his identity when he galloped away from a crime of violence, back into the mysterious Nowhere whence he came.
- 'Mid the rattle of blocks and the tramp of the crew,
Hisses the rain of the rushing squall;
The sails are aback from clew' to ' clew ,
And now is the moment for "MAINSAIL, HAUL!"
- "Clew'" is Saxon; "garnet" (from granato, a fruit) is Italian,—that is, the garnet- or pomegranate-shaped block fastened to the ' clew or corner of the courses, and hence the rope running through the block.
- I went over and asked him to let down the clews or corners of the mainsail, which had been drawn up in order to lessen the useless flapping of the sail against the rigging.
- "Run aft, Haldane, and you too, Spokeshave. Loosen the bunt of the mizzen-trysail and haul at the clew . That’ll bring her up to the wind fast enough, if the sail only stands it!"
- The canvas running up in a proud sweep,
Wind-wrinkled at the clews , and white like lint,
- He taught us how to attach the clews to the ends of the hammock and then lash it between jack stays.
- Now, the fact is, I had started because I thought I saw the end of a good clew .
- Telltale marks around the pan of yeast gave him a clew to the trouble.
- The clew , without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of Continental politics, was in his hands.
