(n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
(n.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.
Example Sentences:
(1) The son of long-time Republican senator John Chafee, Lincoln Chafee worked as a blacksmith at harness-racing tracks and served as mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, before he was appointed to the US Senate in 1999, after his father’s death.
(2) Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies trace the meteoric rise of Cromwell from the lowly son of a blacksmith to a ruthless political leader.
(3) Appearance: Mountains, forests, fast-flowing rivers, picturesque castles, sleepy villages, horse carts, elderly peasants ploughing land with age-old implements, blacksmiths sloshed on the deadly local brew palinka plying their time-honoured trade.
(4) The investigation of sanitary working conditions of stampers and blacksmiths revealed that intense impulse noise of complex time and stochatic structure was a major health adverse factor.
(5) It is the religious aspects of enigmatic Persia that helped put an 80-year-old exiled ascetic at the head of state 30 years ago, then the charismatic cleric Khatami in office 12 years ago, the honest son of a blacksmith – Ahmedinejad – four years ago, and the same yesterday.
(6) Analysis of hearing of 140 blacksmiths from three workships (280 ears) revealed considerable differences in the development of occupational perception deafness between different individuals and also as regard the affection of the right and left ear.
(7) The quaint village of Bevans now stands as the Peters Valley School of Craft , where blacksmithing, woodworking and weaving are taught and practised.
(8) A total of 328 blacksmiths was examined so as to obtain and analyse the physical parameters of noise exposure for its hygienic evaluation and norm setting.
(9) Further along I met a group of people hammering red hot metal in a blacksmithing workshop.
(10) For the broadest level of classification, no excess risk was observed among craftmen and related manufacturing workers, but within this group significant excess risks were observed for specific occupations of textile weavers and knitters; metal smelting, converting, and refining furnacemen; boiler firemen; blacksmiths, hammersmiths, and forging-press operators; bakers, pastry cooks, and confectionery makers; welders and flame-cutters; and metal grinders, polishers, tool sharpeners, and machine-tool operators.
(11) When the blacksmith's daughter tearfully pleads with Pulgasari to "go on a diet", he seems to find his conscience, and puzzlingly shatters into a million slow-motion rocks.
(12) Comparative study of hearing loss in the blacksmiths according to a standard 1999 revealed a hyperaggressiveness of impulsive noise in close connection with both noise level and length of service.
(13) But the same things happened when the automobile replaced the horse, and all the blacksmiths had to adapt, spending their time making garden gates rather than horseshoes.
(14) The risk for metal workers is specially high in the case of turners, metal fitters, blacksmiths, stokers and workers exposed to hot metal.
(15) This year’s Venice work draws from his exhibition called All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (the title derives from a passage in the Communist Manifesto) that toured the north of England in 2013-14, and featured family trees of musicians that found the ancestors of Bryan Ferry, Noddy Holder and Shaun Ryder included a blacksmith, a button filer and a clogger’s apprentice.
(16) Since then his only medical problem has been mild graft-versus-host disease; he is well and is working full time as a blacksmith.
(17) found out that the workers of high risk were butchers, blacksmiths, masons, drivers, electricians and railwaymen.
(18) Its blacksmiths are the scientific community, and while they may be able to make that key in the future, it is not available yet.
(19) And for a few months more it will be at its best - filled with bird lovers, blacksmiths and children with henna-stained fingers playing in the alleys.
(20) Physical working capacity in blacksmiths was found interrelated with the direct and indirect trace element exchanges: hemoglobin in the blood, blood serum iron levels, peroxidase activity and copper content in blood cells.
Iron
Definition:
(n.) The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms; viz., cast iron, steel, and wrought iron. Iron usually appears dark brown, from oxidation or impurity, but when pure, or on a fresh surface, is a gray or white metal. It is easily oxidized (rusted) by moisture, and is attacked by many corrosive agents. Symbol Fe (Latin Ferrum). Atomic weight 55.9. Specific gravity, pure iron, 7.86; cast iron, 7.1. In magnetic properties, it is superior to all other substances.
(n.) An instrument or utensil made of iron; -- chiefly in composition; as, a flatiron, a smoothing iron, etc.
(n.) Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles.
(n.) Strength; power; firmness; inflexibility; as, to rule with a rod of iron.
(n.) Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust.
(n.) Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness.
(n.) Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.;
(n.) Rude; hard; harsh; severe.
(n.) Firm; robust; enduring; as, an iron constitution.
(n.) Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron will.
(n.) Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious.
(v. t.) To smooth with an instrument of iron; especially, to smooth, as cloth, with a heated flatiron; -- sometimes used with out.
(v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
(v. t.) To furnish or arm with iron; as, to iron a wagon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(3) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(4) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(5) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(6) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(7) Increased iron levels in basal ganglia were generally associated with normal or elevated levels of ferritin immunoreactivity, for example, the substantia nigra in PSP and possibly MSA, and in putamen in MSA.
(8) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
(9) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(10) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
(11) Dietary intakes, measured by three 24-hour recalls, revealed that protein, iron and Vitamin C generally met or exceeded the Nutrition Recommendations for age.
(12) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(13) Ten weeks of iron therapy was not, however, long enough to increase iron stores.
(14) With both approaches, carbohydrate and fat had little influence whereas egg albumin had a significant inhibitory effect on the absorption of nonheme iron.
(15) The protein quality and iron bioavailability of mechanically deboned turkey meat (MDT) and hand-deboned turkey meat (HDT) were determined in rats.
(16) Serum levels of vitamins A and E, zinc and iron were determined in healthy control subjects and lepromatous leprosy patients belonging to an eastern state of India.
(17) Ferric iron in aqueous solution was used as an iron-only control.
(18) The implications of inhibition of protein kinase C by adriamycin-iron(III) are discussed.
(19) The duodenal mucosa of genotypically normal iron replete and iron deficient mice and mice with sex-linked (sla) and microcytic anemias (mk) was examined for the presence of iron-binding proteins.
(20) Ferredoxin reductase (Fd-reductase) supplies reducing equivalents obtained from NADPH to mitochondrial cytochrome P450 enzymes via the small iron-sulfur protein ferredoxin.