sheet metal

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noun

metal in sheets or thin plates.

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Origin of sheet metal

First recorded in 1905–10

OTHER WORDS FROM sheet metal

sheet-metal, adjective

Words nearby sheet metal

sheet film, sheet glass, sheet ice, sheeting, sheet lightning, sheet metal, sheet music, sheet pile, Sheetrock, sheet-web weaver, Sheffer's stroke

How to use sheet metal in a sentence

A prime example is the installation of nutplates, stamped sheet metal that affixes to a surface.
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Howard Hua, who runs a sheet metal manufacturer in the southern city of Dongguan, said that power rationing had delayed production by three days, creating a backlog of orders.
China’s power outages shut down factories, fuel climate goal pushback|Christian Shepherd|September 30, 2021|Washington Post
Optima sales slid some 40% the past few years as consumers gobbled up crossovers, so Kia sprinkled pixie dust on the sheet metal to come up with styling that borrows heavily from the high-test Stinger muscle sedan.
Sport sedans make spirited return|Joe Phillips|March 19, 2021|Washington Blade
He’s a minimalist at heart, but a miscreant, taking the choppy upstrokes of Nile Rodgers and making them sound like a table saw cutting through sheet metal.
Gang of Four changed the way punk sounded and what it could say. A new box set reveals the peak of their power.|Andy Beta|March 12, 2021|Washington Post

His father was a sheet metal worker at a Bristol Aeroplane assembly plant.
David Prowse, English actor and weightlifter who embodied Darth Vader, dies at 85|Louie Estrada|November 29, 2020|Washington Post
He and his wife and children shared a cinder-block house with a roof made of sheet metal and a dirt floor.
Mexican Journalists Speak Out on Reporter Murders|Jason McGahan|June 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Several generations have been born and have grown up in these cheap sheet-metal homes, begging the state for help.
Sochi’s Internal Refugees|Anna Nemtsova|February 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The ceiling and roof were made of concrete, not wood and sheet metal as the contract specified.
U.S.-Built Schools in Afghanistan Pose ‘Potentially Life-Threatening Risks’||June 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
According to CBS4 News, the foreign workers “were paid substantially less than the American sheet metal workers would be paid.”
Another GOP Star Stumbles|Jim DeFede|September 4, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Place the sheet metal centrally over the hole in the board and set one end of the round stick in the center of the metal.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2|Various
No sheet metal, brick, or other flue shall be used as a vent pipe.
Elements of Plumbing|Samuel Dibble
During the period briefly described above they could not make sheet metal.
Steam Steel and Electricity|James W. Steele
Can the reader imagine a time in the United States when sheet metal could not be rolled, and even tin plates were not known?
Steam Steel and Electricity|James W. Steele
B is the base, which is hollow, and may be built up in sheet metal.
The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out|Fred T. Hodgson

British Dictionary definitions for sheet metal

sheet metal

noun

metal in the form of a sheet, the thickness being intermediate between that of plate and that of foil

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