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noun
1.
a substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition.
2.
a less costly metal mixed with a more valuable one.
3.
standard; quality; fineness.
4.
admixture, as of good with evil.
5.
anything added that serves to reduce quality or purity.
verb (used with object)
6.
to mix (metals or metal with nonmetal) so as to form an alloy.
7.
to reduce in value by an admixture of a less costly metal.
8.
to debase, impair, or reduce by admixture; adulterate.
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Alloying
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1590–1600; < Middle French aloi, Old French alei, noun derivative of aleier to combine < Latin alligāre to bind up, equivalent to al- al- + ligāre to bind (see ally, ligament); replacing earlier allay, Middle English < Anglo-French allai
1590–1600; < Middle French aloi, Old French alei, noun derivative of aleier to combine < Latin alligāre to bind up, equivalent to al- al- + ligāre to bind (see ally, ligament); replacing earlier allay, Middle English < Anglo-French allai
Related forms
un·al·loyed, adjective
Synonyms
4. fusion, blend, composite.
4. fusion, blend, composite.
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