Word Meanings - HARDWARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.
Related words: (words related to HARDWARE)
- METALOGICAL
Beyond the scope or province of logic. - 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 - KITCHEN MIDDENS
Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada - METALLIFORM
Having the form or structure of a metal. - METALLIFACTURE
The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park. - METALLOGRAPH
A print made by metallography. - METALLOPHONE
An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars. - METALLICLY
In a metallic manner; by metallic means. - METALLICAL
See METALLIC - METALEPTIC
Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle. - METALLOGRAPHIC
Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography. - KITCHEN
coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. 1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. - METALMAN
A worker in metals. - METALLOGRAPHIST
One who writes on the subject of metals. - IRONMONGERY
Hardware; a general name for all articles made of iron. Gwilt. - METALLOCHROME
A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity. - METALLIZATION
The act or process of metallizing. - KITCHEN-RY
The body of servants employed in the kitchen. Holland. - METALLIFEROUS
Producing metals; yielding metals. - METALLURGY
The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores. - BIMETALLIST
An advocate of bimetallism. - NONMETAL
Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals. - MONOMETALLIC
Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism. - BIMETALLIC
Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency. - MONOMETALLISM
The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism. - METALLINE
Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. - STERROMETAL
Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.