â A precious metal is an expensive metal (such as gold) that is used especially for jewelry. â see also semiprecious. diamonds and other precious stones. precious jewels/jewelry. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples.
Al Jazeera English newsroom, Doha, 2008. News is information about current events. Journalists provide news through many different media, based on word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, and also on their own testimony, as witnesses of relevant events.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there's no truth in the theoryâappealing as it may beâthat ''news'' is an acronym for North, East, West and South. Rather, it is a ''mass'' noun, traced by the OED back to early Old English, referring to ''that which is new'', and which draws from the Middle French nouvelles and Classical Latin nova.