metal
metal ; metalwork.
Steel, for example, is one kind of metal.
It was produced in earthenware, metalwork and bone china and in its heyday was used by the great transatlantic liners and by hotel and restaurant chains.
arte del metal
metal art
This is a family-run business that creates rustic metal art that is functional and decorative.
chapa de metal
sheet iron
Urban dwelling types are appearing in the rural environment; wood is replaced by brick and cement and thatch and shingle roofs are replaced by sheet iron.
cortar metal [Verbo irregular: pasado sheared y participio pasado shorn]
shear
All the activity on a sheep station was directed to one end: shearing the sheep and sending the wool away to the city.
de metal
iron
The casting-box for flong moulds was a flat iron case like a portfolio with one hinged lid.
detector de metales
metal detector
The experts respond to the following questions: will schools ever be free of weapons; will card access systems become common in public schools; will metal detectors solve school security problems; and will students ever be issued bullet-proof vests along with textbooks?.
evaluación de metales
metallurgical assaying
Suppose you have classified, by UDC, the document 'Select methods of metallurgical assaying', class number 669.9.
fatiga del metal
metal fatigue
A topic such as metal fatigue assumed a new importance in the 1950s as the unexpected cause of at least two major disasters.
guarnición de metal
metal furniture
When a book was to be printed from type the pages were locked up in the composing room, usually with wooden furniture and quoins although metal furniture and mechanical quoins were used increasingly from the mid century.
huelga del metal
metalworkers' strike
He became famous as the leader of illegal metalworkers' strikes that helped bring an end to the military dictatorship in the mid-1970s.
instrumento de metal
brass instrument
Instead of valves like a brass instrument has, the sax has keys like a woodwind.
metal de imprenta
type-metal [typemetal]
Printing types were cast in an alloy of lead, antimony, and tin called type-metal.
metal derretido
molten metal
Planets like Earth, Jupiter and Saturn generate their magnetic fields by means of a dynamo made up of moving molten metal at the core.
metal fundido
molten metal
Planets like Earth, Jupiter and Saturn generate their magnetic fields by means of a dynamo made up of moving molten metal at the core.
metal grabado
chased metal
Some of these exotic bindings were sometimes enriched with chased metal, semi-precious stones, or pasted-on pictures.
metal para estereotipia
stereotype metal
Stereotype was the process of making metal printing plates carrying a printing surface in relief by pouring stereotype metal into a papier-mache (called 'flong') or plaster of paris mould.
metal pesado
heavy metal
UTAB is a computer database on residues of xenobiotic organic chemicals and heavy metals in plants.
metal precioso
precious metal
In a thesaurus on dentistry, for example, the term GOLD will be an NT under FILLING MATERIALS; it would make little sense to create a 'metals' or 'precious metals' hierarchy.
metal tipográfico
type-metal [typemetal]
typemetal
Printing types were cast in an alloy of lead, antimony, and tin called type-metal.
At all periods, but uncommonly before the eighteenth century, the lines of type might be 'leaded', thin strips of typemetal, reglet, or card being slipped in between each one.
no metal
non-metal
A covalent bond is a strong bond between two non-metal atoms.
obrero del metal
steelworker
Riot police fired tear gas to disperse dozens of protesting steelworkers in Paris yesterday.
persiana de metal
security shutter
The tidal wave ripped open the steel security shutters of the shops.
prensa de metal [En imprenta, nombre dado a la nueva imprenta que aparece hecha de hierro y que sustituye a la original de madera]
iron press
What was new about the iron presses was their capacity for printing large formes with great delicacy.
sierra para metales
hacksaw
Just as Ivan finds that by taking pleasure in finding and managing to keep a broken and discarded hacksaw blade he makes survival possible and beats Stalin and his jailors at heir own game.
trabajador del metal
steelworker
Riot police fired tear gas to disperse dozens of protesting steelworkers in Paris yesterday.
viruta de metal
metal shavings
Make sure to blow out the metal shavings before closing it up as they could wreak havoc on the components if left free to move about.
