alloy
verb/əˈlɔɪ/
/əˈlɔɪ/
(specialist)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they alloy | /əˈlɔɪ/ /əˈlɔɪ/ |
| he / she / it alloys | /əˈlɔɪz/ /əˈlɔɪz/ |
| past simple alloyed | /əˈlɔɪd/ /əˈlɔɪd/ |
| past participle alloyed | /əˈlɔɪd/ /əˈlɔɪd/ |
| -ing form alloying | /əˈlɔɪɪŋ/ /əˈlɔɪɪŋ/ |
- alloy something (with something) to mix one metal with another, especially one of lower value
- The copper was alloyed with tin to make bronze.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: 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 cent.
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