piece of metal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpieceandmetal
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piece
noun[C]
uk/piːs/us/piːs/
a part ...
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metal
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈmet.əl/us/ˈmet̬.əl/
a chemical element, such as iron or gold, or a mixture of such elements, such as steel, that is generally hard and strong, and through which electricity and heat ...
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(Definition ofpieceandmetalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I went to a factory the other day and was amazed to see a hugepieceofmetal.
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That comes from an ordinarypieceofmetalemanating millions of wavelengths.
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A smallpieceofmetalin the neck still has to be removed.
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It does not matter to him whether thatpieceofmetalis to go into a tank or a tractor.
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He scraped apieceofmetalright out of the plate.
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There we can see apieceofmetalgoing in at one end and emerging as a motor car at the other.
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The diamonds are then picked out of the batteredpieceofmetal, put on to a new metal base, and re-exported.
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A lug was a smallpieceofmetal.
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The kilogramme, however, is still defined by reference to apieceofmetalknown as the international kilogramme.
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Imagine an engineer turning a smallpieceofmetalon a centre lathe.
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You could not have a fixed guard on a thing like that, because a person would never be able to put thepieceofmetalin.
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He received a pension for a time, but he has been under six operations, the last of which was the extraction of apieceofmetalfrom his stomach.
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A hole was drilled through the centre of the coin so that it became a wide circularpieceofmetalinstead of a solidpieceofmetal.
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Not even a microscopical examination revealed the flaw, but thepieceofmetalwas magnetised and then plunged into a bath of paraffin oil containing iron dust in suspension.
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The glowplug is a pencil-shapedpieceofmetalwith a heating element at the tip.
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The coroner examines it and notices a smallpieceofmetal.
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