steel

  • 41steel — Term used to describe an icy cold glance or look from or at someone in either a menacing or inquisitive manner. 1. I am receiving some serious steel from that chick across the bar. 2. I know I just slept with that guy s sister, but why is he… …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 42steel — noun 1》 a hard, strong grey or bluish grey alloy of iron with carbon and usually other elements, used extensively as a structural and fabricating material. 2》 a rod of roughened steel on which knives are sharpened. 3》 strength and determination:… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 43steel*/ — [stiːl] noun [U] I a strong metal made from a mixture of iron and CARBON II verb steel [stiːl] steel yourself to prepare yourself for something unpleasant[/ex] …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 44steel — A hard metal produced from iron and an alloy of carbon and metals such as nickel and chromium. The working and hardening of steel were common three thousand years ago in Greece and it probably required a number of centuries for it to reach the… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 45steel — See: MIND LIKE A STEEL TRAP …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 46steel — See: MIND LIKE A STEEL TRAP …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 47steel — 1. noun /stiːl/ a) A metal alloy of mostly iron plus carbon, harder than pure iron but malleable when hot. b) A tool used to sharpen or hone knives; a . 2 …

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  • 48Steel —    The bow of steel in (A.V.) 2 Sam. 22:35; Job 20:24; Ps. 18:34 is in the Revised Version bow of brass (Heb. kesheth nehushah). In Jer. 15:12 the same word is used, and is also rendered in the Revised Version brass. But more correctly it is… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 49steel — [OE] Steel is etymologically a ‘firm’ substance. The word goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *stakhlam, which was derived from the Germanic base *stakh , *stagh ‘be firm’ (source also of English stay ‘rope, support’). It has Germanic… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 50steel — See: mind like a steel trap …

    Словарь американских идиом