steel
An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
Noun 4 meanings
An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
Extreme hardness or resilience.
Adjective 4 meanings
Made of steel.
Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
Engraved on steel.
Verb 2 meanings
To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.
To cause to resemble steel.
Etymology
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”).
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STEEL at a glance
STEEL has 5 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (S 1 + T 1 + E 1 + E 1 + L 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,967 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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