Word Finder - steel

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

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Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

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

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Varieties of this metal.

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(colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.

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Extreme hardness or resilience.

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To edge, cover, or point with steel.

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

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(of mirrors) To back with steel.

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To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.

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To press with a flat iron.

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To cause to resemble steel in appearance.

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To steelify; to turn iron into steel.

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To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.

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To sharpen with a honing steel.

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Made of steel.

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

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Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.

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Containing steel.

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Engraved on steel.

He emerged from the thick steel walls into the sunlight.

Steel bars separated us initially, until it was clear she had no desire to harm me.

The doctor's eyes were the color of cold steel, his face stoic, his large form tense.

She strode across the room to the stainless steel sink.

At the sound of steel on leather, Taran lowered himself into a crouch.

After cleaning his water bowl out in the big stainless steel sink, she filled the bowl with water and set it on the floor near his food bowl.

Metallurgy gives us steel with which we can fashion either swords or plowshares.

Cautiously her fingers felt the ground around her and touched the cold steel barrel.

Adrienne grabbed a large stainless steel spoon from its hanger on the wall and primped at her distorted reflection.

Dusty shouted as a chunk of stone crushed a stainless steel cabinet.

She followed, uninterested in the sterile glass and stainless steel landscape.

The elevator door opened and he stepped inside, swallowed by its stainless steel walls.

The first puddling works were opened in 1839, and Troy was long the centre of the New York iron and steel industry; in 1865 the second Bessemer steel works in the United States were opened here.

Rostov was particularly struck by the beauty of a small, pure-bred, red- spotted bitch on Ilagin's leash, slender but with muscles like steel, a delicate muzzle, and prominent black eyes.

Dusty considered her before gazing back at the mutilated creature on top of the stainless steel lab counter.

She wrapped her hand around the doorknob and turned it from steel into a rag and pushed the door open.

Jackson had hoped to make plans with Elisabeth, but he couldn't very well ask her over and say, "Don't mind the steel shutters on all the windows."

However that may be, I was struck by the peculiar toughness of the steel which bore so many violent blows without being worn out.

Extensive coal mines are in the vicinity, and there are manufactures of iron and steel, mill machinery, door and sash factories, etc., as well as several shipbuilding yards.

The death-dealer gave her another long look before she pointed to the stainless steel box at the end of the kitchen.

Retrieving her robe from the bed, she was about to put it on when his hand captured her arm in a steel grip.

Likhachev got up, rummaged in his pack, and soon Petya heard the warlike sound of steel on whetstone.

He was behind Dean and before Dean could realize what was happening, Winston grabbed his right arm and with a quick metallic click Dean was securely fastened to the brass bedpost by a steel handcuff.

A stainless steel sink was set into home made cabinets, whose cutting board top was marred with years of use.

The battles were silent, the swords clashing without the clang of steel she expected to hear.

Parkside's economy was less than spectacular, but at least it didn't require dependency on the fickle business of mines, steel or manufacturing for its fiscal survival.

Steel is produced in Rhenish Prussia.

The first gate consisted of a few dozen men better armed than his team atop a thick steel wall with an iron core.

Direct Processes for making Wrought Iron and Steel.

Kerosene is transported in bulk by various means; specially constructed steel tank barges are used on the waterways of the United States, tank-cars on the railroads, and tank-wagons on the roads.

American stills of the former type are constructed of wrought-iron or steel, and are about 30 ft.

The modern practice is to employ horizontal cylindrical wrought-iron or steel stills, and to introduce steam into the oil.

Many ingenious devices for forming bars have been produced; but generally a strong frame is used, across which steel wires are stretched at distances equal to the size of the bars to be made, the blocks being first cut into slabs and then into bars.

At a cost of $7,200,000, the city completed in 1917 a municipal bridge of massive steel construction, double track and double deck, across the Mississippi.

There are large slaughtering establishments, and factories for the refining of sugar and for the manufacture of tobacco goods, soap and perfumery, lead pencils, iron and steel, railway cars, chemicals, rubber goods, silk goods, dressed lumber, and malt liquors.

It is the junction between the Oudh & Rohilkhand and East Indian railways, the Ganges being crossed by a steel girder bridge of seven spans, each 350 ft.

Coal, oil, natural gas, clay and iron are found in the vicinity, and among the city's manufactures are iron, steel, glass, furniture and pottery.

Among the larger private establishments there existed in the same year seven breweries, one brandy distillery, two jam, two soap and candle factories, two building and furniture works, a factory for spinning thread, one iron and steel works, one paper and one ammonia and soda factory, and one mineral-oil refinery.

According to these statistics the most important articles of export are coal and turf, fruit, minerals, soda, iron and steel, and cattle.

The most important manufactures are iron and steel, carriage hardware, electrical supplies, bridges, boilers, engines, car wheels, sewing machines, printing presses, agricultural implements, and various other commodities made wholly or chiefly from iron and steel.

More steel wire, wire nails, and bolts and nuts are made here than in any other city in the world (the total value for iron and steel products as classified by the census was, in 1905, $42,930,995, and the value of foundry and machine-shop products in the same year was $18,832,487), and more merchant vessels than in any other American city.

It is a centre of the iron and steel industries, producing principally cast steel, cast iron, iron pipes, wire and wire ropes, and lamps, with tin and zinc works, coal-mining, factories for carpets, calcium carbide and paper-roofing, brickworks and breweries.

Among the most dangerous of the last class (the pneumokonioses) is perhaps that in which the dust particles take the form of finely divided freestone, as in stone-dressing and the dry-polishing on the grindstone of steel.

The chief industry is the manufacture of iron and steel.

The Bochumer Verein fur Bergbau (mining) and Gusstahl Fabrication (steel manufacture) is one of the principal trusts in this industry, founded in 1854.

The manufactures include tobacco, and iron and steel goods.

Its tensile strength is higher than that of steel.

The compass needle is a little steel magnet balanced upon a pivot; one end of the needle, which always bears a distinguishing mark, points approximately, but not in general exactly, to the north,' the vertical plane through the direction of the needle being termed the magnetic meridian.

The poles of a piece of magnetized steel may be at once distinguished if the two ends are successively presented to the compass; that end which attracts the south pole of the compass needle (and is therefore north) may be marked for easy identification.

In the internal field of a long coil of wire carrying an electric current, the lines of force are, except near the ends, parallel to the axis of the coil, and it is chiefly for this reason that the field due to a coil is particularly well adapted for inductively magnetizing iron and steel.