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metallic | metallicize |

As an adjective metallic

is made of, appearing to be made of, resembling, or related to metal.

As a noun metallic

is a color.

As a verb metallicize is

to make metallic.

metallic

English

Alternative forms

* metallick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Made of, appearing to be made of, resembling, or related to metal.

    • Derived terms

    * intermetallic * metallically * metallicity

    Related terms

    * metal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A color
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 24, author=Karin Nelson, title=Keeping Time in Cool Comfort, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=As Robert Clergerie, whose unisex Popée shoe comes in an array of pastels and eye-popping metallics , explained the attraction, “It gives manhood to women.” }}

    metallicize

    English

    Verb

    (metalliciz)
  • To make metallic.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 4, author=Edward Helmore, title=Re-Arranging the Furniture, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Designers tend to get noticed when they make big things: theres an enthusiastic but ultimately limited market for, say, his Mirror Ball, S-Chair or the new Slab Table (an oak table, metallicized to a mirror finish, which he showed at the Milan Furniture Fair last spring). }}