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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steel
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
copper/steel wire
▪ Electrical impulses are sent down the copper wire.
cotton/steel/paper etc mill
▪ an old Victorian cotton mill
iron and steel
▪ the iron and steel industry
metal/steel/iron plates
▪ The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.
stainless steel
▪ stainless steel cutlery
steel band
steel drum
steel guitar
steel mill
steel wool
steel/iron/wooden etc rod
▪ The walls are reinforced with steel rods.
steel/oil/shipping etc magnate
▪ a powerful media magnate
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
▪ Five minutes later found me flinching and clenching. biting into the black vinyl of the couch as cold steel penetrated.
▪ Laughlin, based in Harvey, Illinois, is a maker of cold finished steel bars.
heavy
▪ Two Brothers had mounted those duelling blocks, stepping into those boots encased in heavy steel.
▪ A: Shiny, heavy aluminum or steel pans are best for baking.
▪ We also had with us an immensely heavy steel strongbox which contained enormous quantities of devalued lire.
▪ The recorders are the size of rural mailboxes and are encased in heavy steel.
▪ You can also buy really tough but heavy steel pegs which you can hammer into very hard ground with a rock.
▪ They reeled under the blows, but the heavy steel saved them and they recovered to push back unarmoured householders.
▪ The jury's only reservations concerned the heavy steel legs and their junctions with the surfaces.
▪ I descended and found myself facing a heavy steel door.
high
▪ The device incorporates a high tensile steel tube which clamps to the steering wheel and an integral alarm.
▪ The electric furnaces now used to produce high quality steel, depend almost entirely on scrap for furnace feed.
large
▪ Eventually, they came to a large set of steel doors, watched over by a single guard.
▪ Bouldry said the wooden awning was also weighted with snow and water draining from a larger steel roof overhead.
▪ While other larger steel producers had struggled and often failed against foreign competition, Nucor succeeded.
▪ Two border surveillance cameras, mounted on large steel poles, have been destroyed by gunfire.
mild
▪ Copings in aluminium and mild steel, designed for a lifetime of service.
▪ The style was different to ours: they'd used mild steel netting instead of high-tensile wires.
▪ Between the planting and the road is a mild-steel picket fence.
▪ There are two ancient mild steel peg belays here, but they are best ignored in favour of something a touch more modern.
stainless
▪ Once the acidity is right, huge, mechanical, stainless steel forks are switched on to cut the curd into large chunks.
▪ Occasionally, some one would use butcher block, solid wood, copper, stainless steel, marble or some other exotic surface.
▪ For Edward, the stainless steel containers, and the job, took on a deeper significance.
▪ Before making the welfare address, Dole toured a local plant that manufactures stainless steel tanks and employs several former welfare beneficiaries.
▪ Keep silver or chrome-plated cutlery away from stainless steel.
▪ Specialty metals such as stainless steel, silicon electric steel, alloys and tungsten still are produced in the area.
structural
▪ Rack structures are of structural steel or thin section steel construction.
▪ Some specialize-for example, in structural steel or reinforced concrete structures.
▪ Lateral stability to the structure is provided by a braced structural steel core.
▪ Public works inspectors may specialize in highways, structural steel, reinforced concrete, or ditches.
▪ This building also will be made of structural steel and concrete blocks.
▪ It also owns shipyards and structural steel plants that make highway guard rails.
tubular
▪ Construction was conventional, with a tubular steel fuselage covered in fabric.
▪ Unlike traditional playgrounds that are made of metal and wood, these are made of foam-padded tubular steel and plastic.
▪ All the competition uses simple, tubular steel chassis, but Aprilia is renowned for its alloy beam frames.
▪ Main support for the wing was provided by a large central pylon constructed from tubular steel and covered by Duralumin.
▪ The wing was braced by tubular steel struts located between the hull and underwing surfaces.
▪ It was all tubular steel and smoked glass.
■ NOUN
band
▪ Other facilities include two swimming pools and nightly entertainment featuring steel bands, limbo dancing and calypso music.
▪ His cell was eight by fifteen with a solid oak door supported by steel bands.
▪ Read in studio A group of schoolchildren have formed their own Carribean steel band.
▪ Beeton Rumford staff then transformed the ship's hold, with a steel band, palms and exotic flowers.
▪ These human beasts of burden also wore heavy leg-irons chained to thick steel bands clamped around their waists.
bar
▪ It's your job to provide an alternative to the steel bar by cutting a length of timber instead.
▪ Laughlin, based in Harvey, Illinois, is a maker of cold finished steel bars.
▪ From its rear chassis, two heavy chains were securely attached to the steel bars of the gates.
▪ For bogies and underframes the rolled steel bars were dealt with similarly to wagon components.
▪ A galvanised steel bar grill on the end will prevent access up the pipe.
▪ Pins were inserted into the breaks and steel bars attached to the bones.
▪ They attacked me with pickaxe handles and steel bars.
column
▪ This tiny hitch would be discovered only five weeks later, when the first steel columns arrived on site.
▪ One spring morning two anchor bolts were inserted in the footings that were to receive the first steel column.
company
▪ Unfortunately her building was delayed by the failure of the small specialised steel company that was constructing the hull.
▪ The superintendent in the steel company needed power to get a more efficient delivery schedule of slabs.
▪ Certain private steel companies sought injunctions to prevent this.
▪ They would have done by instinct everything the critics say the steel companies did not do.
▪ Nor was Harvester the only steel company in the 1980s to have this problem.
▪ The steel companies automated, but then did nothing eLse.
▪ It is a banal memory, for her father, the owner of a steel company, is a complicated man.
door
▪ I descended and found myself facing a heavy steel door.
▪ Miguel felt sad as Firebug disappeared into the vestibule, the ugly steel door closing behind him with a clank.
▪ Herr Bischoff then turned the second lock and together they pushed open the massive steel door.
▪ At the end of the corridor, they found Herr Bischoff's son waiting in front of a vast circular steel door.
▪ I repaired the steel door years ago, loosening the rusted hinges and straightening the guides for the bolt.
▪ Eventually, they came to a large set of steel doors, watched over by a single guard.
▪ An agent punched the buzzer next to the embassy's rear steel door.
▪ With a rusty squeak, a pair of steel doors slid inward, locking in the middle with a solid clang.
frame
▪ A few days later, Lisa was fitted with her steel frame.
▪ The names of 934 journalists, dating back to 1812, are printed on tinted-glass panels affixed to a spiral steel frame.
▪ The firm says its buildings cost no more than modern steel frame houses.
▪ The steel frame and simple suspension are identical to the current bike.
▪ The heavy chains lifted, straightened and drew taut, and the stout steel frames of the gates began to buckle outwards.
▪ You could tell it was heavier than normal, probably wooden, clad on a solid steel frame surrounded by high-ratio sound-proofing.
▪ The 45 m superstructure is a nine-storey steel frame stabilised by a reinforced concrete core.
▪ Phase one is now complete with steel frame welding being carried out at the new site.
framework
▪ The fibreglass sections were bolted around a built-up steel framework and Beech C-45 outer wing panels were attached.
▪ There are various ways of designing a steel framework to stand up to the vertical and lateral forces.
▪ Sakhnovski, a team started erecting a replica of the steel framework of part of the thirty-fifth floor of the building.
▪ The evolution of the curtain wall went hand in hand with the invention of the steel framework.
guitar
▪ They should get themselves a steel guitar.
▪ Herron rounded out the band with some fiddle and steel guitar.
▪ Cook, who tears up the steel guitar and trombone.
industry
▪ Will the Hon. Gentleman pledge himself to renationalise the steel industry?
▪ What if they had run the steel industry?
▪ For another industry that followed the same path one has to look no further than the world's steel industry.
▪ They know about the collapse of the steel industry, the massive layoffs at auto plants.
▪ The same has been happening in the steel industry with the advent of the mini-mills.
▪ Typical end-uses include fire screens and welding blankets in potentially hazardous environments such as oil platforms, shipyards and the steel industry.
▪ As a cradle of the coal, iron and steel industries many of its age-old traditions still continue to this day.
maker
▪ Nucor, a steel maker, maintains double-digit growth in an industry that has been shrinking.
mill
▪ I began to work in steel mills when I was seventeen to support my education.
▪ He told me to go over to the steel mill.
▪ We would cut those areas of production, such as mines and steel mills, where there is no comparative advantage for us.
▪ But new steel mills are starting up, which will boost supply.
▪ People all have jobs now, at the steel mill and the auto plant.
▪ S., new steel mills are setting up shop.
▪ The company makes giant machinery for industry: steel mills and iron foundries; oil-drilling equipment and massive bulldozers.
▪ But new steel mills are starting up, which some analysts expect will boost supply and depress prices over the next year.
plant
▪ The brownfields range widely in size, from half-acre former gas stations to 700-acre shuttered steel plants.
▪ Sir Berkeley runs round his train during a tour of the Frodingham steel plant in May.
▪ It also owns shipyards and structural steel plants that make highway guard rails.
▪ During the late 1970s and early 1980s, 25 steel plants closed in the Youngstown region.
plate
▪ Both Mccullin and Page were badly wounded, the latter was left with a steel plate in his brain.
▪ The spire is made of stainless steel plate, rolled into a seamless cone.
▪ As for the ships, steel plates meant to repair them have found their way into the homes of Vladivostok's elite.
▪ Up on the roof Balberith drove his fists at the steel plate and howled obscenities, the way some of them do.
production
▪ This is a factory, more than 100 years old, which produces silicone for steel production and computer chips.
▪ Part of our A-level chemistry looks at steel production and another at protein chemistry.
▪ From 1951 to 1955 manufacturing output rose 14 percent, car production 87 percent and steel production 21.5 percent.
rod
▪ Now it was raining hard outside, great heavy unmerciful rain slanting out of the sky like steel rods.
▪ The following day, the doctors pin together her bone with three tiny steel rods that will stay in her hand for ever.
▪ They have been removed from the bridge because many similar ones have broken apart as the steel rods have corroded.
▪ The Phantom looks simple: A thimble is attached to a jointed arm made of black steel rods.
▪ To give it strength in compression and tension, steel rods were embedded in the concrete.
tube
▪ The device incorporates a high tensile steel tube which clamps to the steering wheel and an integral alarm.
▪ The fuselage was of welded steel tube, faired to an oval section, with spruce formers, and fabric covered.
▪ Or you might want to think of a steel tube.
▪ The tall surfaces were of steel tube, fabric covered.
▪ The trees are anchored by 20 metre polyurethane roots, formed by injecting liquid chemicals down a steel tube.
wool
▪ Applied with fine steel wool, the wax can darken faded wood and provide a resistant finish.
▪ After the second with grade 0000 steel wool 8 Any finish can then be applied.
▪ For a natural worn look, lightly rub down the varnish when hard with fine steel wool.
▪ Then sand lightly with fine steel wool, and dust off thoroughly, finishing with a tacky rag.
worker
▪ Earlier, they had promised to raise wages on April 1st by 26% for engineers and 21% for steel workers.
▪ Also patron of farriers, jewelers, and steel workers.
▪ A witness had seen the retired steel worker in the middle of the road.
▪ Abortion may be a deciding factor for Fred Chiorra, a 71-year old retired steel worker and Democrat from Allentown.
▪ So, we weep for both lambs and foxes, but not for steel workers.
▪ Also patron of farriers, garage workers, and steel workers.
▪ It is neither a romantic comedy in the vein of Four Weddings nor a warm-hearted tale about Sheffield steel workers.
■ VERB
build
▪ The new screen is built on to a steel frame so it should survive considerably longer.
▪ The colossal church in southern Charlotte is built of glass and steel spires, rising above its stone front.
▪ A composite building of steel plus concrete is extremely difficult to achieve in New York City.
▪ At each level of the building, the steel members can experience different forces from higher up or lower down.
make
▪ Bethlehem Steel, for instance, no longer makes steel at the huge plant around its Pennsylvania headquarters.
▪ Fishnets are not made of wood, steel, or concrete.
▪ Portakabins are made of steel and do not burn.
▪ Thus, a car builder will not try to make its own steel as Ford once did.
▪ Those clamps are made of high-tensile steel fitted with a locking device.
▪ S blocked steel imports, which drove up the cost of automobiles and everything else made from steel.
▪ The spire is made of stainless steel plate, rolled into a seamless cone.
▪ We backed off making steel because we backed off making everything.
use
▪ The style was different to ours: they'd used mild steel netting instead of high-tensile wires.
▪ At first, I used steel, which weighed too much and cost $ 1, 100 apiece to make.
▪ Rainwater only should be used with steel tanks as bore water is corrosive on account of its iron content.
▪ Then another gendarme ran up and joined the attack, using a steel golf club.
▪ They used additional steel straps to re-secure the roof.
▪ In the west, shipbuilding was done at Barrow-in-Furness, again using local steel.
▪ All the competition uses simple, tubular steel chassis, but Aprilia is renowned for its alloy beam frames.
▪ They used either aluminium or steel foil, contained in a stainless steel cassette, as a recording medium.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cold steel
▪ Five minutes later found me flinching and clenching. biting into the black vinyl of the couch as cold steel penetrated.
gold-tipped/steel-tipped/rubber-tipped etc
nerves of steel
▪ You need nerves of steel to be a race-car driver.
▪ He had either nerves of steel or brains of custard, because he had fallen asleep during the last flight.
▪ It calls for consummate timing and nerves of steel.
▪ Raccoons these days, they have nerves of steel.
▪ The man had nerves of steel and didn't need anyone's good wishes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The concrete is reinforced with steel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to Gardner, she has the steel to succeed.
▪ Edelstein challenges any preconceptions one might have of what a New Jersey steel dispatcher should look like.
▪ In the west, shipbuilding was done at Barrow-in-Furness, again using local steel.
▪ Plate steel is used in the construction and machinery markets.
▪ The best type of lock to use is one made from a loop of solid steel.
▪ Two other bodies are still in the ship, lodged in twisted steel.
▪ When people do read longer works, they primarily favor high-drama novels that get a steel grip on their attention.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
s
▪ Domestic U. S. steel got fat and sassy.
▪ Would the U. S. steel industry survive in any form?
▪ Witness the entire U. S. steel industry.
▪ Nippon Steel, for example, spends more on research and development than all U. S. steel companies combined.
▪ For some reason, maybe just an existential weariness, U. S. steel companies stopped doing these things.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cold steel
▪ Five minutes later found me flinching and clenching. biting into the black vinyl of the couch as cold steel penetrated.
nerves of steel
▪ You need nerves of steel to be a race-car driver.
▪ He had either nerves of steel or brains of custard, because he had fallen asleep during the last flight.
▪ It calls for consummate timing and nerves of steel.
▪ Raccoons these days, they have nerves of steel.
▪ The man had nerves of steel and didn't need anyone's good wishes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I meowed a couple of times and steeled myself as she came over.
▪ Only then would ministers steel themselves to introduce the unpleasant but indispensable reform measures.
▪ Ruth steeled every nerve-ending in her body.
▪ She had been expecting changes and had steeled herself not to resent them.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steel

Steel \Steel\ (st[=e]l), n. [AS. st[=e]l, st[=y]l, st[=y]le; akin to D. staal, G. stahl, OHG. stahal, Icel. st[=a]l, Dan. staal, Sw. st[*a]l, Old Prussian stakla.]

  1. (Metal) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.

  2. An instrument or implement made of steel; as:

    1. A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. ``Brave Macbeth . . . with his brandished steel.''
      --Shak.

      While doubting thus he stood, Received the steel bathed in his brother's blood.
      --Dryden.

    2. An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.

    3. A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.

  3. Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor. ``Heads of steel.''
    --Johnson. ``Manhood's heart of steel.''
    --Byron.

  4. (Med.) A chalybeate medicine. --Dunglison. Note: Steel is often used in the formation of compounds, generally of obvious meaning; as, steel-clad, steel-girt, steel-hearted, steel-plated, steel-pointed, etc. Bessemer steel (Metal.) See in the Vocabulary. Blister steel. (Metal.) See under Blister. Cast steel (Metal.), a fine variety of steel, originally made by smelting blister or cementation steel; hence, ordinarily, steel of any process of production when remelted and cast. Chrome steel, Chromium steel (Metal.), a hard, tenacious variety containing a little chromium, and somewhat resembling tungsten steel. Mild steel (Metal.), a kind of steel having a lower proportion of carbon than ordinary steel, rendering it softer and more malleable. Puddled steel (Metal.), a variety of steel produced from cast iron by the puddling process. Steel duck (Zo["o]l.), the goosander, or merganser. [Prov. Eng.] Steel mill.

    1. (Firearms) See Wheel lock, under Wheel.

    2. A mill which has steel grinding surfaces.

    3. A mill where steel is manufactured.

      Steel trap, a trap for catching wild animals. It consists of two iron jaws, which close by means of a powerful steel spring when the animal disturbs the catch, or tongue, by which they are kept open.

      Steel wine, wine, usually sherry, in which steel filings have been placed for a considerable time, -- used as a medicine.

      Tincture of steel (Med.), an alcoholic solution of the chloride of iron.

      Tungsten steel (Metal.), a variety of steel containing a small amount of tungsten, and noted for its tenacity and hardness, as well as for its malleability and tempering qualities. It is also noted for its magnetic properties.

Steel

Steel \Steel\ (st[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Steeled (st[=e]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Steeling.] [AS. st[=y]lan: cf. Icel. st[ae]la. See Steel, n.]

  1. To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.

  2. Fig.: To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.

    Lies well steeled with weighty arguments.
    --Shak.

    O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts.
    --Shak.

    Why will you fight against so sweet a passion, And steel your heart to such a world of charms?
    --Addison.

  3. Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.

    These waters, steeled By breezeless air to smoothest polish.
    --Wordsworth.

  4. (Elec.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
steel

"make hard or strong like steel," 1580s, earliest use is figurative, from steel (n.). Old English lacked the verb but had styled "made of steel." Related: Steeled; steeling.

steel

modified form of iron with a small portion of carbon, not found in nature but known in ancient times, Old English style "steel," from noun use of Proto-Germanic adjective *stakhlijan "made of steel" (cognates: Old Saxon stehli, Old Norse, Middle Low German stal, Danish staal, Swedish stål, Middle Dutch stael, Dutch staal, Old High German stahal, German Stahl), related to *stakhla "standing fast," from PIE *stek-lo-, from root *stak- "to stand, place, be firm" (see stay (n.1)). The notion is perhaps "that which stands firm." No corresponding word exists outside Germanic except those likely borrowed from Germanic languages.\n

\nAs an adjective from c.1200 (Old English used stylen "*steel-en." Steel wool is attested from 1896. Steel drum is from 1952.

Wiktionary
steel

Etymology 1

  1. 1 made of steel. 2 similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely. 3 (context business English) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel. 4 (context medicine obsolete English) containing steel. 5 (context printing English) engraved on steel. n. 1 (context uncountable English) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness. 2 (context countable English) any item made of this metal, particularly including: 3 # bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers. 4 # A piece used for striking sparks from flint. 5 # armor. 6 # A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades. 7 # (context sewing English) pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing. 8 # (context dialectal English) A flat iron. 9 # (context sewing dialectal English) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus. 10 # (context printing English) An engraving plate: 11 # projectiles. 12 # (context sewing English) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal. 13 # (context music guitar English) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar. 14 (context countable English) The part made from this metal, in reference to anything. 15 (context uncountable medicine obsolete English) medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (''eventually'') any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment. 16 (context countable English) varieties of this metal. 17 (context uncountable colors English) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To edge, cover, or point with steel. 2 (context transitive English) To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against. 3 (context transitive obsolete of mirrors English) To back with steel. 4 (context transitive medicine obsolete English) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes. 5 (context transitive dialectal English) To press with a flat iron. 6 (context transitive uncommon English) To cause to resemble steel in appearance. 7 (context transitive English) To steelify; to turn iron into steel. 8 (context transitive English) To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron. 9 (context transitive English) To sharpen with a honing steel. Etymology 2

    n. (context UK crime slang obsolete English) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldbath%20Fields%20Prison in London, closed in 1877.

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WordNet
steel

  1. n. an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range

  2. a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade [syn: sword, blade, brand]

  3. knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod

steel

  1. v. get ready for something difficult or unpleasant [syn: nerve]

  2. cover, plate, or edge with steel

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Wikipedia
Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and other elements, primarily carbon, that is widely used in construction and other applications because of its high tensile strength and low cost. Steel's base metal is iron, which is able to take on two crystalline forms (allotropic forms), body centered cubic (BCC) and face centered cubic (FCC), depending on its temperature. It is the interaction of those allotropes with the alloying elements, primarily carbon, that gives steel and cast iron their range of unique properties. In the body-centred cubic arrangement, there is an iron atom in the centre of each cube, and in the face-centred cubic, there is one at the center of each of the six faces of the cube. Carbon, other elements, and inclusions within iron act as hardening agents that prevent the movement of dislocations that otherwise occur in the crystal lattices of iron atoms.

The carbon in typical steel alloys may contribute up to 2.1% of its weight. Varying the amount of alloying elements, their presence in the steel either as solute elements, or as precipitated phases, retards the movement of those dislocations that make iron comparatively ductile and weak, and thus controls its qualities such as the hardness, ductility, and tensile strength of the resulting steel. Steel's strength compared to pure iron is only possible at the expense of iron's ductility, of which iron has an excess.

Steel was produced in bloomery furnaces for thousands of years, but its extensive use began after more efficient production methods were devised in the 17th century, with the production of blister steel and then crucible steel. With the invention of the Bessemer process in the mid-19th century, a new era of mass-produced steel began. This was followed by Siemens-Martin process and then Gilchrist-Thomas process that refined the quality of steel. With their introductions, mild steel replaced wrought iron.

Further refinements in the process, such as basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS), largely replaced earlier methods by further lowering the cost of production and increasing the quality of the product. Today, steel is one of the most common materials in the world, with more than 1.3 billion tons produced annually. It is a major component in buildings, infrastructure, tools, ships, automobiles, machines, appliances, and weapons. Modern steel is generally identified by various grades defined by assorted standards organizations.

Steel (comics)

Steel, in comics, may refer to one of several DC Comics characters:

  • Commander Steel, a World War II hero and his grandsons, also known as simply "Steel" and "Citizen Steel".
  • John Henry Irons, an armored hero inspired by Superman and the folk hero John Henry
  • Natasha Irons, the niece of John Henry Irons, also known as "Starlight" and "Vaporlock".
Steel (disambiguation)

Steel is a metal alloy that is composed principally of iron and carbon.

Steel may also refer to:

Steel (The Twilight Zone)

"Steel" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Steel (John Henry Irons)

Steel (John Henry Irons), also known as the Man of Iron, is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Universe. First appearing in The Adventures of Superman #500 (June 1993), he is the second character known as Steel and was created by Louise Simonson and artist Jon Bogdanove. Aspects of the character are clearly inspired by the African American folk hero John Henry, as well as Superman.

Steel (soundtrack)

Steel is the soundtrack of the 1997 film of the same name. It was released just days before the film and featured the hit single " Men of Steel", a posse cut featuring Shaquille O'Neal, Ice Cube, B-Real, Peter Gunz, and KRS-One. The soundtrack reached #185 on the Billboard 200 and #26 on the top R&B/Hip-Hop charts. Other guests include Mobb Deep, Blackstreet, Tevin Campbell and Spice 1. Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne had written and recorded a song for the film titled "Strange", but the song was not included.

Steel (Omni Series 1)

Steel, a part of the Omni Series box set is the sixth studio album by Canadian songwriter and record producer Daniel Lanois. It was first released in December 2008 as a box set along with Purple Vista (Omni Series 2) and Santiago (Omni Series 3).

Steel (band)

Steel is a one-off power metal project from Sweden that featured Dan Swanö and members of Opeth. Started in 1996, this collaboration emerged during the recording sessions for Opeth's Morningrise album. During a jam session, when the band were soundchecking the drums, they hit upon an idea to record a short piece for fun, entitled Guitars and Metal. This gave birth to Steel. Subsequently, they were asked to record more songs and when they did, the songs which were originally meant for a demo, actually appeared on a limited picture 7" EP, entitled Heavy Metal Machine released by Near Dark Productions. To this date, it remains their sole record.

Featuring only two songs, Heavy Metal Machine sounds very much like a typical 1980s power metal band, with high-pitched vocals, shredding solos, pounding bass lines and even 1980s-style sound effects (police sirens, etc.). However, the record is not meant to be taken as a serious power metal attempt, explaining Swanö's extremely high-pitched vocals. As limited release, Heavy Metal Machine remains a collectors' item and is hard to come by.

Steel (1997 film)

Steel is a 1997 American superhero action film based on the DC Comics character Steel. The film stars Shaquille O'Neal as John Henry Irons and his alter-ego Steel, Annabeth Gish as his wheelchair-using partner Susan Sparks, and Judd Nelson as their rival Nathaniel Burke. The plot centers on an accident caused by Burke which leaves Sparks paralyzed. The accident results in Irons quitting his job. Burke begins mass-producing weapons and selling them to criminals. In order to stop Burke, Irons and Sparks create a suit of armor that leads Irons to become the superhero Steel.

Written and directed by Kenneth Johnson, the film separates itself from the comic book series (and John Henry Irons' status as a supporting character of Superman) by using original protagonists and antagonists. On its initial release, Steel performed poorly at the box office and was panned by critics, noting the "cheesiness" and bad acting in the film.

Steel (TV channel)

Steel was an Italian entertainment TV channel, owned by NBCUniversal and broadcast on Premium Gallery, a Digital terrestrial television service in Italy. It started broadcasting on January 19, 2008 at 13:30 ( CET Time).

It is devoted to a male audience and broadcasts action and science fiction / fantasy TV series and movies, with a branded block called Syfy.

At the moment, Steel is not available on Satellite television, and is not available outside Italy.

Steel (web browser)

Steel is a freeware web browser developed by Michael Kolb under the name kolbysoft. It is a fork of the default browser for Android, taking its WebKit-based layout engine and providing what is intended to be an easier and more "touch friendly" user interface.

Steel was one of the first Android applications to support automatic rotation based on the hardware's accelerometer and a virtual keyboard. This feature is now more common among Android applications.

In 2010 Skyfire purchased kolbysoft and the Steel browser.

Steel (surname)

Steel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • A. G. Steel (1858–1914), English cricketer
  • Anthony Steel (historian) (1900–1973), British medieval historian
  • Billy Steel (1923–1982), Scottish footballer
  • Sir Christopher Steel (diplomat) (1903–1973), British ambassador
  • Christopher Steel (1938–1991), British composer
  • Bryan Steel (born 1969), English cyclist and multiple Olympic medallist
  • Danielle Steel (born 1947), American author known for her romance novels
  • David Steel (disambiguation), various people
  • Dawn Steel (1946–1997), one of the first women to run a major Hollywood film studio
  • Dick Steel (born 1930), English professional footballer
  • " Doctor Steel", American musician heading an alternative band
  • Duncan Steel (born 1955), British/Australian astrophysicist
  • Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929), English writer
  • Freda Steel, Manitoba judge
  • Hollie Steel (born 1998), English schoolgirl singer
  • Ian Steel (1928–2015), Scottish racing cyclist
  • John Steel (disambiguation), various people
  • Kat Steel, American actress and host
  • Mark Steel (born 1960), English socialist columnist, author and comedian
  • Michael Steel (disambiguation), various people and fictional characters
  • Robert K. Steel (born 1951), American businessman
  • Simon Steel (born 1969), English cricketer
Steel (1933 film)

Steel'' (Italian:Acciaio'') is a 1933 Italian drama film directed by Walter Ruttmann and starring Piero Pastore, Isa Pola and Vittorio Bellaccini. The film was shot on location at the steel mills in Terni in Umbria. It was based on the novel Giuoca, Pietro! by Luigi Pirandello. With its semi-documentary style it was one of a number of films made in the Fascist era that serve as a precursor to Italian neorealism which emerged in the mid-1940s.

Steel (album)

Steel is the first full-length album recorded by the heavy metal band Battle Beast. It was released in April 2011 and reached No. 7 on the Finnish Album Chart. It is also the first album and only album to feature Nitte Valo on lead vocals

Steel (1979 film)

Steel is a 1979 drama film starring and executive produced by Lee Majors. It was filmed in Lexington, Kentucky and the surrounding Fayette County. The film was directed by Steve Carver.

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Usage examples of "steel".

She glanced down at her own nakedness, accessorized with gleaming surgical steel.

There is also the resemblance of the plan of the city to the blade of such a knife, the curve of the defile corresponding to the curve of the blade, the River Acis to the central rib, Acies Castle to the point, and the Capulus to the line at which the steel vanishes into the haft.

And while he still knew that the slim length of thousand-folded steel and hand-cast gilded bronze was more than proficient enough to see him elevated from apprentice smith to master and therefore to adulthood, he was not at all certain it would suffice to pass one final, and more important, muster.

Tarrant entered the aeroponics room, the gleaming white PVC pipe and enameled steel in shining contrast to the dim red of the fishery.

Delaware, darkly aflash, like polished steel in the slanting sunlight.

Lennox raised his head above the scarred steel of the top of the sail to look aft, making sure the rudder was turned to the right instead of left.

To steel his body with the fluid motions and speed of aikido, he also took up boxing and fencing and rounded things out with acrobatics.

Besides the rustling of the gas cells there was the creaking of the aluminium framework along which he walked and the musical cries of thousands of steel bracing wires.

I had when I had made my original survey of the rooms, I lifted them from each drawer to see if there was not a steel, igniter, or syringe of amadou beneath them.

In an underwater world, the first one to hear the other side was usually the winnerto help keep sound waves from bouncing off the steel hull of the ship, resilient-compound blocks had been attached to her hull as an anechoic coating.

There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.

In the space of just a few minutes she had seen ten armed men carrying suitcases, a sable-garbed woman with two steel hooks for hands, and now a diamond-studded blond followed by a hulking, apish brute of a man.

Lane, some five or six years after Will Locke and Dulcie were wed, with its strange litter of acids and aquafortis, graving tools and steel plates.

After the cheese and fruit dessert, Natalie wanted to visit the aqueduct and take their coffee with them so Saul filled the steel Thermos while she went to her room and got a thick sweater from her suitcase.

The enchanted steel killed where it struck, slicing arachnid flesh easily, but there were thousands of them.