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# alloy

noun (an alloy, alloys); verb (alloy, alloys, alloyed, alloying)

«alloy» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An alloy is a metal made by mixing two or more metals, or a metal with another element, to make it stronger or better. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/#m1)
2. Alloy wheels are car wheels made of a light metal alloy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/#m2)
3. To alloy means to mix metals together to make an alloy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on materials and mixtures: steel (iron + carbon), brass (copper + zinc), bronze (copper + tin); history (the Bronze Age); in everyday life, coins, bikes and wheels are made of alloys.

### Examples

- Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/#x1)
- Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/#x2)
- Coins are usually made of alloys. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/#x3)
- Dad's car has shiny alloy wheels. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/#x4)
- Alloys can be harder than pure metals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/#x5)
- The Bronze Age began when people learned to make a new alloy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/#x6)

### Note

Countable: an alloy, alloys. Uses «an» because it starts with a vowel sound. Science: an alloy is a mixture, not a new compound.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means the cheap, impure metal mixed into silver, a picture of sin in the people.

**Interpretation.** Commentators read God's purging of the alloy as cleansing Israel of sin so it can become faithful and just again.

### Examples

- And I will turn My hand upon thee, and purge away thy dross as with lye, and will take away all thine alloy; (Prophets ISA.1.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alloy/#x1)

### Note

Countable: an alloy, alloys. Uses «an» because it starts with a vowel sound. Science: an alloy is a mixture, not a new compound.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «alloy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alloy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«alloy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/alloy.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «alloy» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alloy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«alloy» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/alloy.html) on Mova free.