steel

Oznaczający (Angielski)

Noun

1. An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
2. Any item made of this metal, particularly including
3. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
4. A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
5. Armor.
6. A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
7. Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
8. A flat iron.
9. A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
10. An engraving plate
11. Projectiles.
12. A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
13. A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
14. (obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
15. The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
16. Extreme hardness or resilience.

Adj

1. Made of steel.
2. Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
3. Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
4. (obsolete) Containing steel.
5. Engraved on steel.

Verb

1. To edge, cover, or point with steel.
2. To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
3. (obsolete) To back with steel.
4. (obsolete) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
5. To press with a flat iron.
6. To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
7. To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
8. To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
9. To sharpen with a honing steel.

Name

Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.

Synonimy

iron

metal

🤘

sword

toughen

nerve

harden

season

blade

temper

hard

steely

iron manufacture

steelmaking

brand

petrify

pipe

rapier

sharpening steel

soak

stiffen

stone

🪨

stove

strengthen

tempered iron

fencing sword

steel oneself against

steel grade

killed steel

cold steel arms

steel ball

solid steel

full killed steel

friction ball

ball lump

furison

fire-steel

fire-steel of Burgundy

axe

🪓

cast-iron stove

brutal

calcify

can

crowbar

cruel

dip

dunk

epee

heavy metal

immerse

iron rod

magnet

🧲

nail

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/stiːl/

Etymologia (Angielski)

Dziedziczone z średnioangielski: stele

Dziedziczone z staroangielski: stīele

Pokrewny z scots: stele

Pokrewny z Yola: stehli

In summary

From Middle English stele, stel, from Old English stīele, from Proto-West Germanic *stahlī (“something made of steel”), enlargement of *stahl (“steel”), from Proto-Germanic *stahlą, from *stah- or *stag- (“to be firm, rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *stak- (“to stay, to be firm”). Compare Scots stele, Yola stehli.

Zdania

It could have been steel , silver or platinum .

The firebox was made of steel rather than the rarer and more expensive copper .

The molten steel was then poured into moulds and the crucibles reused .