YELLOW METAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow metal mean? 

• YELLOW METAL (noun)
  The noun YELLOW METAL has 1 sense:

1. a brass that has more zinc and is stronger than alpha brass; used in making castings and hot-worked products

  Familiarity information: YELLOW METAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOW METAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A brass that has more zinc and is stronger than alpha brass; used in making castings and hot-worked products

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

alpha-beta brass; Muntz metal; yellow metal

Hypernyms ("yellow metal" is a kind of...):

brass (an alloy of copper and zinc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yellow metal"):

high-strength brass; manganese bronze (a brass with from 1-4% manganese to harden it)

Admiralty brass; Admiralty Metal; naval brass; Tobin bronze (alpha-beta brass containing tin; resistant to sea water; Admiralty Metal is a trademark)

 Context examples 

Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

From the left fob he took out a net almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like a purse, and served him for the same use: we found therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real gold, must be of immense value.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life is, the ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again; and he came because men had found a yellow metal in the North, and because Manuel was a gardener’s helper whose wages did not lap over the needs of his wife and divers small copies of himself.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)