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Metallike vs Metallize - What's the difference?

metallike | metallize |

As an adjective metallike

is resembling a metal or some aspect of one.

As a verb metallize is

to coat, treat or impregnate a non-metallic object with metal.

metallike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling a metal or some aspect of one.
  • Synonyms

    * metallic

    metallize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * metalize, metallise, metalise

    Verb

    (metalliz)
  • To coat, treat or impregnate a non-metallic object with metal.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
  • , author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper , passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}