Steel

[stiːl] or [stil]

解释:

(noun.) knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod.

(noun.) an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range.

(verb.) cover, plate, or edge with steel.

(verb.) get ready for something difficult or unpleasant.

艾伯纳录入--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.

(n.) An instrument or implement made of steel

(n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.

(n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.

(n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.

(n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.

(n.) A chalybeate medicine.

(n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.

(n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.

(n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.

(n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

埃塞雷德编辑

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Case-harden, edge or point with steel.[2]. Harden, strengthen, fortify, nerve, brace, make firm.

埃米尔编辑

解释:

n. iron combined in varying proportions with carbon for making edged tools: any instrument or weapon of steel: an instrument of steel for sharpening knives on: a strip of steel for stiffening a corset: a piece of steel for striking fire from a flint: extreme hardness: a chalybeate medicine.—adj. made of steel: hard unfeeling.—v.t. to overlay or edge with steel: to harden: to make obdurate.—adj. Steel′-clad clad with steel-mail.—ns. Steel′-engraving the art of engraving pictures on steel plates from which impressions may be taken the impression or print so taken; Steel′iness state of being steely great hardness; Steel′ing the welding of a steel edge on a cutting instrument; Steel′-pen a pen-nib made of steel; Steel′-plate a plate of steel: a plate of polished steel on which a design is engraved the print taken from such.—adj. Steel′-plāt′ed plated with steel.—n.pl. Steel′-toys small articles of steel as buttons buckles &c.—n. Steel′-ware articles made of steel collectively.—adj. Steel′y made of steel: steel-like.

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