steel
IPA: stˈiɫ
noun
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
- Armor.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate:
- Projectiles.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (UK, crime, slang, obsolete) Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (transitive) To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (transitive, obsolete, of mirrors) To back with steel.
- (transitive, medicine, obsolete) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
- (transitive, dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- (transitive, uncommon) To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
- (transitive) To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- (transitive) To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
- (transitive) To sharpen with a honing steel.
adjective
- Made of steel.
- Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
- (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
- (medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.
- (printing) Engraved on steel.
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Examples of "steel" in Sentences
- The crucibles stood for the iron and steel industry.
- The total weight of the steel in the bridge was 500kg.
- When the rich get too rich and steel from the lower classes.
- It is the largest steel box girder bridge in the United States.
- The most common recyclable metals found are steel and then aluminum.
- The brake shoes may be formed of steel or heat treatable ductile iron.
- The is the traditional Japanese furnace used for smelting iron and steel.
- The corrosive salt air eliminated the practicality of steel truss bridges.
- The iron ore and much of the stone and coal are used in the steel industry.
- In general, the properties of malleable cast iron are more like mild steel.
- Then again you probably think that production of steel is a clean business.
- Eighty thousand people worked in steel in the 1940s; by 1987, 4,000 remained.
- The fluid is compatible with aluminum, ductile iron, and mild and carbon steels.
- It is also not impossible that artists may have already invented what we call steel pens.
- The entrance of this house is decorated by a piece of art in steel which is called “Family”.
- The "northern iron" of (Jeremiah 15: 12) is believed more nearly to correspond to what we call steel
- It was still necessary to encase the top of the tunnel in steel pipes and test the escape capsule, but Sougarret was no longer nervous.
- "Paul Watson has said before that he's willing to give any Japanese vessel what he calls a steel enema by ramming his ship into the stern of any Japanese vessel," Mr Inwood said.
- He could not say that imperial overstretch in Iraq inflicted lasting damage on our soldiers and our military infrastructure -- what he called the steel in our ship of state -- and that our standing has been diminished in the eyes of the world.