Definitions for Steel

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Steel steel

Spelling: [steel]

IPA: /stil/

Steel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in Steel (eelst).

Definitions for Steel

noun

1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
2. a thing or things made of this metal.
3. a flat strip of this metal used for stiffening, especially in corsets; stay.
4. a bar of this metal that has one end formed to hold a bit for driving through rock.
5. steels, stocks or bonds of companies producing this metal.
6. a sword.
7. a rounded rod of ridged steel, fitted with a handle and used especially for sharpening knives.

adjective

1. pertaining to or made of steel.
2. like steel in color, hardness, or strength.

verb (used with object)

1. to fit with steel, as by pointing, edging, or overlaying.
2. to cause to resemble steel in some way.
3. to render insensible, inflexible, unyielding, determined, etc.:

Origin of Steel

before 900; (noun) Middle English stele, Old English (north) stēle; cognate with Dutch staal, German Stahl, Old Norse stāl; (v.) Middle English stelen, Old English styled edged with steel, de

Examples for Steel

Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.

The doctor there speaks of 'our steel pens,' as if they were not at all uncommon.

It took a special, meticulous kind of person to accomplish the undertaking, someone with brains, patience, and nerves of steel.

Her struggles met only the unbending, pitiless resistance of steel.

We made big things like steel for ships and tractors and turbines for hydroelectric plants.

A helmet fell from his hands on the floor with a ring of steel.

The man said he was going to get the strips rolled to make into steel pens.

As a major source for steel during World War II, Sheffield was a frequent target of bombing raids.

The rest is going to wherever that steel is getting outsourced.

"Aye, it is the steel head-piece of the watchman," remarked the archer.