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[ US /ˈaɪɝn/ ]
[ UK /ˈa‍ɪ‍ən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head
  2. implement used to brand live stock
  3. a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
  4. home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth
ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely robust
    an iron constitution
VERB
  1. press and smooth with a heated iron
    press your shirts
    she stood there ironing

How To Use iron In A Sentence

  • At the iron railings turn left into the war memorial gardens. Times, Sunday Times
  • By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
  • Have a cosmic awareness, an interest in ecology, environment, vegetarianism, or are very socially conscious.
  • While the site focuses mainly on their environmental concerns, they're also up in arms about the Bush administration's general abuse and disregard for science - including the idea that abstinence is some kind of cureall. News from the House of Sticks -
  • She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
  • BRODY: They had to deal with that, and so they're reticent to a certain degree to kind of delve into some of the faith issues as it relates to the political environment, if you will, because they know that he can get a lot of backlash. CNN Transcript May 6, 2009
  • After our engineless sail into the anchorage at Santa Domingo we spent a couple of days trying to resuscitate the iron genny. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Plans for the dam have been vetoed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
  • The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
  • Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.
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