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say it: AL-oy
alloy is a noun and verb meaning "a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten
“brass is an alloy of zinc and copper”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alloy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.