steel
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steel/stiːl/
▶noun
- 1 a hard, strong grey or bluish-grey alloy of iron with carbon and usually other elements, used extensively as a structural and fabricating material.
- 2 a rod of roughened steel on which knives are sharpened.
- 3 strength and determination: nerves of steel.
– origin OE stȳle, stēli, of Gmc origin.
'steel' also found in these Oxford entries:
advanced gas-cooled reactor
- angle iron
- arsenic
- austenite
- Bailey bridge
- bandsaw
- basic
- basic oxygen process
- basinet
- Bessemer process
- bloom
- boilerplate
- brutalism
- burin
- carbon steel
- carburize
- caterpillar
- celesta
- cementation
- chalybeate
- chrome
- chromium
- chromoly
- converter
- country music
- Damascene
- damascened
- Damascus steel
- damask
- decarburize
- dobro
- dulcitone
- ECSC
- electric-arc furnace
- ferrite
- ferroconcrete
- flint
- frosting
- galvanize
- hackle
- Hawaiian guitar
- ingot
- international style
- iron
- jacket
- joist
- Jubilee clip
- kara
- knife-edge
- lance
