metals

See also: metāls

English

Pronunciation

• Homophone: meddles

Noun

metals

1. plural of metal
2. (rail transport) the rail tracks owned by a company or organisation; a rail network

   It was appropriate that 'King' number 6000 began the return to steam on British Rail metals in 1971.

   • 1901, Kipling, Kim, ch. 8

     Now and again a night train roared along the metals within twenty feet of him; but he had all the Oriental’s indifference to mere noise, and it did not even weave a dream through his slumber.

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7

     They stood on the foot-bridge over Boathouse Station and looked at the metals gleaming coldly.

   • 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, pages 77, 78:

     Steam services began running over NR [Network Rail] metals from Grosmont to the traffic objective of Whitby in 2007, with operations enhanced by opening of the second platform at the terminus in 2014.

Translations

railway

• Russian: ре́льсы pl (rélʹsy)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

metals

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of metal

References

• “metal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• lamest, malest, samlet

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Danish

Noun

metals n

1. indefinite genitive singular of metal

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Occitan

Noun

metals

1. plural of metal