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spiegel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spiegel iron \Spie"gel i`ron\ [G. spiegel mirror + E. iron.] (Metal.) A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel [syn: spiegeleisen, spiegel iron]
Wikipedia
Spiegel is German, Yiddish, and Dutch for " mirror". More specifically, it may refer to:
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Der Spiegel, a weekly German magazine
- Spiegel Online, the online sibling of Der Spiegel
- Spiegel scandal, a 1962 German political scandal, named after Der Spiegel magazine
- Spiegel (surname), a German surname
- Spiegel (catalog), an American catalog retailer
- Spiegel Grove, the Fremont, Ohio, home of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, named after mirror-like pools of rainwater
- USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32), a dock landing ship of the United States Navy
- Spiegeleisen, a pig iron containing a high level of manganese used in the manufacture of steel
- Spiegel, Inc., the former name of the Eddie Bauer Holdings
- Spiegel, the flagship of Michiel de Ruyter during the Second Anglo-Dutch War
- "Spiegel" (song), a hip hop song by German girl group Tic Tac Toe
- " Spiegel the Cat", a story-poem by David Martin based on a tale by Gottfried Keller
- Spiegel bei Koeniz, a village in the Swiss canton of Bern
- Spike Spiegel, the main character of the anime Cowboy Bebop
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Adriaan van den Spiegel, a Flemish anatomist.
- Spigelian hernia, a hernia of the abdominal wall, named after Van den Spiegel
- Gundam Spiegel, a mobile suit from the anime Mobile Fighter G Gundam, also known as Shadow Gundam in the English Language version.
Spiegel is an American direct marketing and catalog company which designs and markets women's apparel, accessories and footwear under the Spiegel, Newport News and Shape FX brands.
Spiegel is a surname of German origin. In German language Spiegel means mirror.
Spiegel is an ancient German Christian surname. Family tradition says it was taken from a town or lake named Spiegel. There is a small community south of Munich named Spiegel. The name Spiegel goes back to at least the 12th century, when the Spiegel family were barons of Desenburg and Peckelsheim in Hessen; one noted person was Heinrich III Spiegel zum Desenberg (1361-80), Bishop of Paderborn.
There are also a significant number of Jewish people with the surname, and it is said that this name originated from a house sign in the Frankfurt am Main ( Judengasse) picturing a mirror. The form Spiegel is documented in Frankfurt am Main since the 16th century. Variants are Szpiegel, Schpiegel, Shpi(e)gel, Şpighel, etc. Family lore, as told by the family of Joseph Spiegel scion of the Spiegel Family of catalogue fame, says that the family name in Germany had been Meyer. Big Meyer, bought a large mirror for the house. When he got it home, it was too big to fit. So, it was leaned against a nearby tree. When people came into the valley, the sun reflected off the mirror. The house became known as the Spiegel house. The family adopted the name.
"Spiegel" is a song from German girl group ' Tic Tac Toe'. It was released as a single in December 2005 and entered the German Media Control single chart at number 9 and peaked at number 7. It has been one of their most successful singles up to date. This single along with 'Keine Ahnung' were the highlights of their new album "Comeback". The music video to 'Spiegel' features the girls characterized as young women in therapy. It deals with the problems they have and results in an unanswered gunshot.
Usage examples of "spiegel".
Het dagelijkse ritueel deed haar bijna haar akelige dromen vergeten, maar voordat Anne de badkamer uitging wierp ze nog een laatste blik in de spiegel.
In the absence of that reliable translation of the entire original documents, and that thorough elaboration of all the extant materials, which we are awaiting from the hands of Professor Spiegel, whose second volume has long been due, and Professor Westergaard, whose second and third volumes are eagerly looked for, we must make the best use of the resources actually available, and then leave the point in such plausible light as existing testimony and fair reasoning can throw upon it.
He walked her straight down the Nieuwe Spiegel Staat to the Munt Plein and the Munt tower with its clock and bells, and then into Kalverstraat.
Nurse Spiegel petitions Plummer with an unguarded glance as he makes his bluff pass at her back at Carver.
The needs of new mothers have been met in an important and special way by Lisa Spiegel and Jean Kunhardt, who have been conducting mother-baby groups for nearly ten years.
Der Spiegel resulted in the bizarre deaths of both an Ottawan paparazzo and a Bavarian international-affairs editor, of an alpenstock through the abdomen and an ill-swallowed cocktail onion, respectively?
Eight Annalee Purves had mail-ordered some bed sheets from Spiegel in Chicago, and so every now and then she would go to a front window of the farmhouse and look down the long dusty slope of the narrow driveway and see the red flag still up on the mailbox and wonder how late this Wednesday delivery would be.
Cindy Spiegel, my editor at Riverhead, took a huge chance on me, and I greatly value her work on this book.
I had visited steelworks and the like during the manufacture of components of my own Time Machine, and earlier devices: I had watched molten iron run from the blast-furnaces into Bessemer converters, there to be oxidized and mixed with spiegel and carbon.
Er konnte Janet Ross und Benson, die jetzt zu sprechen begannen, durch den Spiegel beobachten.