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steel
steel is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 16 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
An instrument or implement made of steel
- 3noun
A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
- 4noun
An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
- 5noun
A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
- 6noun
Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
- 7noun
A chalybeate medicine.
- 8noun
To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
- 9noun
To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
- 10noun
Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
- 11noun
To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
- 12noun
knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- 13noun
a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- 14noun
an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
- 15verb
cover, plate, or edge with steel
- 16verb
get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
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