steel

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 专有名词
中文释义
发音 stēl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness. countable,uncountable
    — Ocearium stæli.
  2. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers. countable,uncountable
    — For heom ne may halter ne bridel Bringe from here wode wyse, Ne mon mid stele ne mid ire.
  3. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium. countable,uncountable
    — Of ston mid stel in ðe tunder wel to brennen one ðis wunder.
  4. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; Armor. countable,uncountable
    — Þai gun hem boþe armi In iren and stiel þat tide.
    Comus
  5. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades. countable,uncountable
    — The steill to scherp the schawing jrne.
  6. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing. countable,uncountable
    — I haue a ruffe is a quarter deep, measured by the yeard... You haue a pretty set too, how big is the steele you set with?
  7. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; A flat iron. countable,dialectal,uncountable
    — One of them having occasion to use a Steele, smoothing Iron, or some such kinde of Laundry Instrument.
  8. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus. countable,dialectal,uncountable
    — The threaded steel...Flies swiftly.
  9. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; An engraving plate. countable,uncountable
    — A re-issue of the Examples of the Architecture of Venice. By John Ruskin... With the Text, and the 16 Plates (10 Steels and 6 Lithographs) as originally published.
  10. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; Projectiles. countable,uncountable
    — The crews at the port batteries were pumping steel at the enemy.
  11. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal. countable,uncountable
    — A trailing skirt embroidered in what is termed fine steel.
  12. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar. countable,uncountable
  13. Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment. obsolete,uncountable
    — A stronger physick is now necessary, perhaps a whole course of steel: A physick, God knowes, that this Kingdome hath been under five or six yeares.
  14. The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue. uncountable
    — Falkenhayn gave...to Jane a steel glacé silk dress.
  15. Extreme hardness or resilience. countable,figuratively,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.; To edge, cover, or point with steel. literally,transitive
    — Hure þolien ant a beoren hare unirude duntes wið mealles istelet.
  2. To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.; To back with steel. literally,obsolete,transitive
    — Nay, a Crystall glasse will not show a man his face, except it be steeled, except it be darkned on the backside.
  3. To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.; To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes. literally,obsolete,transitive
    — She drunk her drink steeled, with which she was cured.
  4. To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.; To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron. literally,transitive
    — My large dry-point,...called Two Stumps of Driftwood, gave 1000 copies (after being steeled) without perceptible wearing.
  5. To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.; To sharpen with a honing steel. literally,transitive
  6. To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.; To steelify; to turn iron into steel. literally,transitive
    — By passing an electric current thus through the bars the operation of steeling is much hastened.
  7. To cause to resemble steel.; To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against. figuratively,transitive
    — But stil he was so steelde With heart so good, as victor he dead left them in the field.
  8. To cause to resemble steel.; To give (something) the appearance of steel. figuratively,literary,poetic,transitive
    — And lo! those waters, steeled By breezeless air to smoothest polish, yield A vivid repetition of the stars.
  9. To press with a flat iron. dialectal,transitive
    — Tha hasn't tha Sense to stile thy own Dressing.
形容词 adj.
  1. Made of steel. not-comparable
    — Strained in stel ger on steedes of might.
  2. Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely. not-comparable
    — Wher neuer cessing soyle doth steelebright stuff send out from mines.
  3. Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel. not-comparable
    — [T]he discoverie of the yron and steele mines.
  4. Containing steel. not-comparable,obsolete
    — To mix some Sugar of steel, or steel wine with the first glass.
  5. Engraved on steel. not-comparable
    — The best picture I have had yet is the steel frontis-piece to my new book.
专有名词
  1. Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877. UK,obsolete,slang,transitive
    — I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. [...] six months in the Bastille (the old House of Corrections), Coldbath Fields.

词形变化

steels plural steele alternative,obsolete steele alternative,obsolete steels present,singular,third-person steeling participle,present steeled participle,past steeled past steele alternative,obsolete steele alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

下位词
cast steel cemented steel cold steel concrete steel Eglin steel Mushet steel shear steel stainless steel strip steel tool steel wrought steel
衍生词
alloy steel austenitic steel balls of steel Bessemer steel Biosteel blister-steel blister steel bright lights and cold steel bronze steel carbon steel cement steel cold steel and bright lights console steel guitar console steel guitarist crucible steel Damascus steel Damask steel draw one's steel electrosteel finger steel firesteel flowers of steel German steel granulated steel hard steel high-speed steel high speed steel high steel India steel lap steel lap steel guitar lap steel guitarist low-background steel low steel manganese steel man of steel marage steel maraging steel mild steel mind like a steel trap native steel natural steel nerves of steel nickel steel nonsteel ovaries of steel oxysteel pedal steel pedal steel guitar pedal steel guitarist phosphorus steel plasteel presteel radiosteel resteel ring of steel salt of steel semisteel Siemens-Martin steel silicon steel silver steel soft steel spring steel steelback steel band steelband steel bandsman steel bar steel-barred steel beach party steel beach picnic steel beetle steel bender steel-black steel blue steel-blue steel-born steel-bosomed steel-bound steel-bow Steelboy steel-bright steel bronze steel-browed steel cage match steel-clad steelclad steel-colored steel-cut steel driver steel drops steel drum steel drummer Steele steelen steel-engraved steel-engraver steel engraving steeler steel-erector steel-face steel-faced steel-facing steel fall steel finch steel fixer steel frame steel-framed steel framework steel-girt steel grain steel-grained steel-grated steel-graven steel-green steel-grey steel guitar steel guitarist steel-hard steel-hardened steelhead steel head steel-hilted steel horse steelie steelification steelify steel iron steelless steellike steel-lined steel lozenge steel lustre steel magnolia steelmaker steel-maker steelmaking steel-making steel man steelman steel marl steelmaster steel master steel mill steel mine steel-nerved steel-nose steel orchestra steel-ore steel pannist steel pan orchestra steelpan steel pan steel-piercing steel pill steel pipe steel plant steel-pointed steel pot steel pot helmet steel ring steel-rolling steels steel saddle steel-shafted steel-sharp steel-shod steel square steel-straight steel-string guitar steel-strong steel-studded steel tape steel-tempered steel-thin steel-tipped steel-toe boot steel-topped steel to the very back steel town steel toys steel trade steel trap steel-using steelware steel water steel wheel steel wine steel wool steel-wool steelwork steelworker steel-worker steel worker steelworking steelworks steely steelyard steely-eyed structural steel sugar of steel table steel table steel guitar table steel guitarist tincture of steel Toledo steel transparisteel true as steel turning steel vanadium steel weathering steel weld steel wheels of steel steel up unsteel unsteeled
相关词
cast iron wrought iron

词源

词源 1
From Middle English stele, stel, from Old English stīele, from Proto-West Germanic *stahlī (“something made of steel”), enlargement of *stahl (“steel”), from Proto-Germanic *stahlą, from *stah- or *stag- (“to be firm, rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *stak- (“to stay, to be firm”). Compare Scots stele, Yola stehli, German Stahl, Dutch staal, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stål.
词源 2
From French Bastille (a French prison).
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