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Word: Alloy
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
late 16th century: from Old French aloi (noun) and French aloyer (verb), both from Old French aloier, aleier ‘combine’, from Latin alligare ‘bind’. In early use the term denoted the comparative purity of gold or silver; the sense ‘mixture of metals’ arose in the mid 17th century
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈlɔɪ
Dialects: British English
Definition:
mix (metals) to make an alloy
Short Definition:mix metals
Examples:- alloying tin with copper to make bronze
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