steel

en-noun

steel (countable and uncountable, plural steels)

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.

der

One of them having occasion to use a Steele, smoothing Iron, or some such kinde of Laundry Instrument.

1638, J. Taylor, Bull, Beare, & Horse, C5:

(countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:


ferroalloy

Any alloy of iron and another metal, especially one of silicon, manganese, chromium, vanadium, tungsten, titanium and molybdenum; used in the production of specialist steels as they have a lower melting point than the pure metal.


сталь

uk-noun

сталь • (stalʹ) f inan (genitive ста́лі, nominative plural ста́лі, genitive plural ста́лей, relational adjective стале́вий or стальни́й)

stalʹ (romanization)
ста́лі (genitive)
ста́лі (nominative plural)
ста́лей (genitive plural)
стале́вий (adjective relational)
стальни́й (adjective relational)
сталь (nominative singular)
ста́лі (nominative plural)
ста́лі (genitive singular)
ста́лей (genitive plural)
ста́лі (dative singular)
ста́лям (dative plural)
сталь (accusative singular)
ста́лі (accusative plural)
ста́ллю (instrumental singular)
ста́лями (instrumental plural)
ста́лі (locative singular)
ста́лях (locative plural)
ста́ле (singular vocative)
ста́лі (plural vocative)


steelworks

A place where steel is manufactured and/or shaped.


steelyard

From steel + yard (“enclosed area, rod”).
The sense of “place” is a calque of Dutch staalhof or Middle Low German Stalhof (Modern Dutch staal (“steel”) + hof (“court, yard”)).
The sense of “balance” is presumably from the sense of “place”, originally “steelyard beam”, mixed with additional sense of “rod” (hence “rod for weighing steel”), replacing earlier Latin statera.

A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.


steel wool

en-noun

steel wool (countable and uncountable, plural steel wools)

Don’t use the steel wool on this pan; you’ll strip off the Teflon coating.

Fine strips or threads of steel, usually formed into pads or balls and used as an abrasive.


vanadium steel

vanadium steel (countable and uncountable, plural vanadium steels)

Any of a range of alloys of vanadium and steel having improved strength and high-temperature stability


sidero-

From Ancient Greek σίδηρος (sídēros, “iron”).

Related to iron or steel, as in siderosis (fibrosis caused by iron deposits)


steelmaking

The principal raw material in steelmaking is iron ore.

1963 June, B. Perren, “Colvilles iron ore traffic in the Glasgow area”, in Modern Railways, page 409:

Iron ore producers are facing the first price fall for annual contracts in seven years as demand weakens for steelmaking inputs.

2009 February 4, Ben Sharples, “Rebound is close: Forrest”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-02-05:


austenite

After William Chandler Roberts-Austen (1843-1902).

A solid solution of carbon or ferric carbide in iron that exists in steel at high temperatures.


cementite

cementite (countable and uncountable, plural cementites)

(inorganic chemistry) A form of iron carbide, Fe₃C, that is a component of steel.


siderurgy

From sidero- + -urgy, after Ancient Greek σιδηρουργός (sidērourgós). Compare Italian, Portuguese, Spanish siderurgia, Catalan siderúrgia and French sidérurgie.


austemper

en-verb

austemper (third-person singular simple present austempers, present participle austempering, simple past and past participle austempered)

austempers (present singular third-person)
austempering (participle present)
austempered (participle past)
austempered (past)

(transitive) To harden (a metal) and produce a stronger microstructure by heating it into the austenite region and then immediately quenching and removing any bainite and ausferrite.


ocelárna

cs-noun

ocelárna f (related adjective ocelárenský)

ocelárenský (adjective)
ocelárna (nominative singular)
ocelárny (nominative plural)
ocelárny (genitive singular)
oceláren (genitive plural)
ocelárně (dative singular)
ocelárnám (dative plural)
ocelárnu (accusative singular)
ocelárny (accusative plural)
ocelárno (singular vocative)
ocelárny (plural vocative)
ocelárně (locative singular)
ocelárnách (locative plural)
ocelárnou (instrumental singular)
ocelárnami (instrumental plural)


nickel steel

en-noun

nickel steel (countable and uncountable, plural nickel steels)

(chemistry, industrial) steel that contains approximately 6% of nickel, increasing its strength


Bessemer steel

Bessemer steel (countable and uncountable, plural Bessemer steels)

Named after Sir Henry Bessemer, the English engineer who invented the process.

Steel made directly from cast iron by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal.


plasteel

(science fiction) A fictional durable substance.


iron sand

iron sand (countable and uncountable, plural iron sands)


metallurgical coal

metallurgical coal (countable and uncountable, plural metallurgical coals)

The type of coal used for the making of steel.


wire wool

wire wool (countable and uncountable, plural wire wools)

Coordinate term: wool

Any of several wools made of metal wire; especially, steel wool (when not otherwise specified).


bronze steel

A hard tough alloy of tin, copper, and iron, formerly used for guns.


steel mill

An industrial facility that produces or processes steel.


cast steel

cast steel (countable and uncountable, plural cast steels)

(countable, uncountable) The steel making up a steel casting, in the sense of one cast to finished (net) or near-net shape: the product of a steel foundry (as opposed to a steel mill); the steel counterpart to cast iron.


پولات

ug-noun

پولات • (polat) (plural پولاتلار (polatlar))


પોલાદ

head

પોલાદ • (polād) n

gu-noun

પોલાદ • (polād) n

polād (romanization)
પોલાદ (nominative singular)
પોલાદો (nominative plural)
પોલાદ (oblique singular)
પોલાદો (oblique plural)
પોલાદ (singular vocative)
પોલાદો (plural vocative)
પોલાદે (instrumental singular)
પોલાદોએ (instrumental plural)
પોલાદે (locative singular)
પોલાદોએ (locative plural)

Borrowed from Classical Persian پولَاد (pōlād).