1. сплав (металлов) an alloy of many peoples —- сплав многих народов 2. примесь, лигатура, присадка 3. примесь (чего-л) дурного pleasure without alloy —- ничем не омраченное удовольствие 4. проба (обыкн. драгоченного металла) 5. сплавлять (металлы) 6. добавлять примесь (к металлу), легировать 7. портить, омрачать her happiness was alloyed by her mother's illness —- болезнь матери омрачала ее счастье ...
n. & v. --n. 1 a mixture of two or more metals, e.g. brass (a mixture of copper and zinc). 2 an inferior metal mixed esp. with gold or silver. --v.tr. 1 mix (metals). 2 debase (a pure substance) by admixture. 3 moderate. Etymology: F aloi (n.), aloyer (v.) f. OF aloier, aleier combine f. L alligare bind ...
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I. noun Etymology: French aloi, from Old French alei, from aleir to combine, from Latin alligare to bind — more at ally Date: 1604 1. the degree of mixture with base metals ; fineness 2. a substance composed of two or more metals or of a metal and a nonmetal intimately united usually by being fused together and dissolving in each other when molten; also the state of union of the components 3. a. an admixture that lessens value b. an impairing alien element 4. a compound, mixture, or union of different things an ethnic ~ of many peoples 5. archaic a metal mixed with a more valuable metal to give durability or some other desired quality II. Date: 1661 transitive verb 1. a. temper, moderate b. to impair or debase by admixture 2. to reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable metal 3. to mix so as to form an ~ intransitive verb to lend itself to being ~ed iron ~s well ...
~1 n a metal that consists of two or more metals mixed together (Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.) ~2 v 1 technical to mix one metal with another 2 literary to lower the value or quality of something by mixing it with something else ...
- early 14c., from Anglo-Fr. alai, from O.Fr. aleier "mix with a baser metal," from L. alligare, compound of ad- "to" + ligare "to bind," hence "bind one thing to another." ...
