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alloy
 
Noun alloy has 2 senses
  1. alloy, metal - a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper"
    --1 is a kind of mixture
    --1 has substances: solid solution, primary solid solution
    --1 has particulars:
     heavy metal; oroide, oreide; Alnico; amalgam, dental amalgam; fusible metal; electrum; pewter; pinchbeck; pot metal; solder; white gold; type metal; white metal, bearing metal; Babbitt metal, babbitt; Britannia metal; Carboloy; steel; cheoplastic metal; copper-base alloy; dental gold; Duralumin; Inconel; Invar; nickel-base alloy, nickel alloy; nickel silver, German silver; pyrophoric alloy; shot metal; Stellite; sterling silver; tombac, tombak, tambac; Wood's metal, Wood's alloy
    Derived form: verb alloy1
  2. admixture, alloy - the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
    --2 is a kind of impurity, impureness
Verb alloy has 2 senses
  1. debase, alloy - lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
    --1 is one way to devalue
    Derived form: noun alloy1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. alloy - make an alloy of
    --2 is one way to     blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
allowed allowed allowedd allowing allowing of allowing of predicate allows allows for something to somebody alloy alloy cast iron alloy iron alloy steel alloyed allpins allred allright alls fair

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