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"English terms with audio links",
"en:Types of chemical element"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "metal",
"3": "oid"
},
"expansion": "metal + -oid",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From metal + -oid.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more metalloid",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most metalloid",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "metalloid (comparative more metalloid, superlative most metalloid)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Of or relating to the metalloids."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(not comparable) Of or relating to the metalloids."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1997, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 43, page 12",
"text": "Graham Massey of 808 State turns a Björkian moan into a vibrating siren and powers his strangely metalloid version of \"Army Of Me\" with it; the Brodsky String Quartet turns \"Hyperballad\" into a stately 3-D chess game.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Gene Santoro, Highway 61 Revisited",
"text": "It expanded from bleary delay rippling with looped phrases to embrace molten metalloid raunch and blues grit, acoustic guitars and pedal steels.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Characteristic of the metal music genre."
],
"links": [
[
"metal",
"metal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Characteristic of the metal music genre."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɛtəlɔɪd/"
},
{
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-metalloid.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-metalloid.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"metalloid"
],
"word": "metalloid"
}
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