Definitions from Wiktionary (Steel)
▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
▸ noun: (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
▸ noun: Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
▸ noun: A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
▸ noun: Armor.
▸ noun: A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
▸ noun: (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
▸ noun: (dialectal) A flat iron.
▸ noun: (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
▸ noun: (printing) An engraving plate:
▸ noun: Projectiles.
▸ noun: (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
▸ noun: (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
▸ noun: (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
▸ noun: (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
▸ noun: (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
▸ adjective: Made of steel.
▸ adjective: Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
▸ adjective: (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
▸ adjective: (medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.
▸ adjective: (printing) Engraved on steel.
▸ verb: (literally) To treat or furnish with or transform into steel.
▸ verb: To edge, cover, or point with steel.
▸ verb: (obsolete, of mirrors) To back with steel.
▸ verb: (obsolete, medicine) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
▸ verb: To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
▸ verb: To sharpen with a honing steel.
▸ verb: To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
▸ verb: (figuratively) To cause to resemble steel.
▸ verb: To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
▸ verb: (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
▸ verb: (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
▸ noun: (UK, crime, slang, obsolete) Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ Also see steel
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▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
▸ noun: (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
▸ noun: Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
▸ noun: A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
▸ noun: Armor.
▸ noun: A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
▸ noun: (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
▸ noun: (dialectal) A flat iron.
▸ noun: (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
▸ noun: (printing) An engraving plate:
▸ noun: Projectiles.
▸ noun: (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
▸ noun: (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
▸ noun: (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
▸ noun: (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
▸ noun: (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
▸ adjective: Made of steel.
▸ adjective: Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
▸ adjective: (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
▸ adjective: (medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.
▸ adjective: (printing) Engraved on steel.
▸ verb: (literally) To treat or furnish with or transform into steel.
▸ verb: To edge, cover, or point with steel.
▸ verb: (obsolete, of mirrors) To back with steel.
▸ verb: (obsolete, medicine) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
▸ verb: To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
▸ verb: To sharpen with a honing steel.
▸ verb: To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
▸ verb: (figuratively) To cause to resemble steel.
▸ verb: To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
▸ verb: (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
▸ verb: (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
▸ noun: (UK, crime, slang, obsolete) Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ Also see steel
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