"sheet metal" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sheet metals [plural]
Etymology: sheet + metal Etymology templates: {{compound|en|sheet|metal}} sheet + metal Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sheet metal (countable and uncountable, plural sheet metals)
  1. Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet, used widely as construction material and raw material for a multitude of industrial products. It is thicker than foil and thinner than plate. Wikipedia link: sheet metal Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: sheet-metal Translations (Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet): blik (Afrikaans), xapa [feminine] (Catalan), 板金 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 板金 (bǎnjīn) (Chinese Mandarin), plech [masculine] (Czech), blik [neuter] (Danish), blik [neuter] (Dutch), lado (Esperanto), plekk (Estonian), pelti (Finnish), ohutlevy (Finnish), tôle [feminine] (French), Blech [masculine] (German), λαμαρίνα (lamarína) [feminine] (Greek), פָּח (paẖ) [masculine] (Hebrew), धातु चद्दर (dhātu caddar) (Hindi), bádog (Hungarian), tolo (Ido), karta (Ingrian), lamiera [feminine] (Italian), 板金 (itagane) (alt: いたがね) (Japanese), 板金 (bankin) (alt: ばんきん) (Japanese), қаңылтыр (qañyltyr) (Kazakh), 판금 (pan'geum) (Korean), Blech [masculine] (Luxembourgish), ламарина (lamarina) [feminine] (Macedonian), лим (lim) [masculine] (Macedonian), തകിട് (takiṭŭ) (Malayalam), blikk [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), blekk [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), blacha [feminine] (Polish), chapa de metal [feminine] (Portuguese), tablă [feminine] (Romanian), листово́й мета́лл (listovój metáll) [masculine] (Russian), blieka [feminine] (Samogitian), ли̏м [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), плочевина [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), lȉm [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pločevina [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), plech [masculine] (Slovak), pločevina [feminine] (Slovene), hojalata [feminine] (Spanish), plåt [common-gender] (Swedish), sac (Turkish), blek (West Flemish)
    Sense id: en-sheet_metal-en-noun-if1EI6~P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

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      "sense": "Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet",
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pločevina"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plech"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pločevina"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hojalata"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "plåt"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet",
      "word": "sac"
    },
    {
      "code": "vls",
      "lang": "West Flemish",
      "sense": "Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet",
      "word": "blek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sheet metal"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": pán-kim vs. zh-min-nan",
  "path": [
    "sheet metal"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "sheet metal",
  "trace": ""
}

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