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Steel

/stiːl/

An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.

📖 Definitions of "Steel"

noun
  1. 1

    An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.

  2. 2

    Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

  3. 3

    Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.

  4. 4

    Varieties of this metal.

verb
  1. 1

    To edge, cover, or point with steel.

  2. 2

    To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.

  3. 3

    (of mirrors) To back with steel.

  4. 4

    To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.

adjective
  1. 1

    Made of steel.

  2. 2

    Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.

  3. 3

    Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.

  4. 4

    Containing steel.

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