"steel wool" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: steel wools [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} steel wool (countable and uncountable, plural steel wools)
  1. Fine strips or threads of steel, usually formed into pads or balls and used as an abrasive. Wikipedia link: steel wool Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Materials Synonyms: steel-wool, steelwool Translations (fine threads of steel): سِلْك اَلتَّنْظِيف (silk at-tanẓīf) (Arabic), 鋼絲絨 (Chinese Mandarin), 钢丝绒 (gāngsīróng) (Chinese Mandarin), 鋼絲球 (Chinese Mandarin), 钢丝球 (gāngsīqiú) (english: shaped as a ball) (Chinese Mandarin), drátěnka [feminine] (Czech), ståluld [common-gender] (Danish), teräsvilla (Finnish), paille de fer [feminine] (French), Stahlwolle [feminine] (German), acélgyapot (Hungarian), acélforgács (Hungarian), fémforgács (Hungarian), vasforgács (Hungarian), fémsúroló (Hungarian), dörzskefe (Hungarian), dörzsi (Hungarian), stálull [feminine] (Icelandic), paglietta [feminine] (Italian), челична волна (čelična volna) [feminine] (Macedonian), wūru maitai (Maori), төмөр зүлгүүр (tömör zülgüür) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), stålull [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), stålull [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), palha de aço [feminine] (Portuguese), esponja de aço [feminine] (Portuguese), lã de aço [feminine] (Portuguese), bombril [masculine] (Portuguese), burete de sârmă [masculine] (Romanian), estropajo de acero [masculine] (Spanish), stålull [common-gender] (Swedish), svinto (english: genericized trademark) [common-gender] (Swedish), bulaşık teli (Turkish), tel (Turkish)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.