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steel

staal

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steel

1. staal

Engels > Engels

steel

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

2. n. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

3. n. Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.

4. n. A piece used for striking sparks from flint.

5. n. Armor.

6. n. A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.

7. n. (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.

8. n. (dialectal) A flat iron.

9. n. (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.

10. n. (printing) An engraving plate:

11. n. Projectiles.

12. n. (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.

13. n. (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.

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

15. n. Varieties of this metal.

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

17. n. (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.

18. adj. Made of steel.

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

20. adj. (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.

21. adj. (medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.

22. adj. (printing) Engraved on steel.

23. v. To edge, cover, or point with steel.

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

25. v. (transitive, obsolete, of mirrors) To back with steel.

26. v. (transitive, medicine, obsolete) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.

27. v. (transitive, dialectal) To press with a flat iron.

28. v. (transitive, uncommon) To cause to resemble steel in appearance.

29. v. To steelify; to turn iron into steel.

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

31. v. To sharpen with a honing steel.

Nederlands > Engels

staal

1. n-n. steel

2. n-n. sample

staal zonder waarde - worthless sample

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

He must have a will of steel.
A little rack, stainless steel, of course.
But nothing too heavy like ships, steel or locomotives.
Some survivors were saved by steel wardrobes which prevented concrete blocks crushing them.
But I've forgotten the flint and the steel.

Vorige woorden herzien

neck	bicycle	May	seal
ruler	sixty-four	glider	sauce
eight	stationery	sixty-nine	anaesthetic
fence	cable car	bark	wave

Willekeurig

fast	yesterday	ash	clean
family	noodle	fire	plum
dust	forty-five	fifty	left
cook	tram	sea	pumpkin

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