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UK
/stˈiːl/
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[ US /ˈstiɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈstiɫ/ ]
VERB
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
NOUN
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
How To Use steel In A Sentence
- The pain in his side was crushing, as if there was a steel hand in there relentlessly closing on an organ. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- Considering his height, then the steely look and his rough voice, both of which reminded me a lot of Carey, he was a rather intimidating person, even to me.
- The human species has not evolved such that it can tolerate sitting in that southwesterly location, behind uninsulated glass, leaning on a heat absorbing table of dark steel and not be grossly uncomfortable.
- In the sunlight, the steel surface comes alive with reflections, picking up the green of the surrounding grass.
- Trip steels have a microstructure with retained austenite, ferrite and martensite.
- He said the operators of two steel fishing vessels recently reported losses of HK $50,000 a month while the operators of two sampans said they had lost around HK $20,000.
- Working with steel requires different tools and skills, so there is a big learning curve for carpenters.
- It simply consists of a steel hook and a piece of rope with a loop on the end.
- Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq