(n.) 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.
(n.) An instrument or implement made of steel
(n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
(n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
(n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
(n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
(n.) A chalybeate medicine.
(n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
(n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
(n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
(n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that there is a significant difference in bond strengths between enamel and stainless steel with strength to enamel the greater.
(2) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(3) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
(4) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(5) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
(6) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(7) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
(8) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(9) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
(10) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(11) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
(12) Glycaemia, glucosuria, plasma insulin, and the rates of appearance Ra and disappearance Rd of glucose (kinetics of double-labelled glucose, evaluated according to Steele's equation in its non-steady-state version) were observed under the following conditions, starting from normoglycaemia during glucose-controlled insulin infusion (GCII): (I) insulin withdrawal, (II) insulin withdrawal and glucose infusion, (III) constant i.v.
(13) Forty-five percutaneous trephine lung biopsies using the Steel apparatus were performed on 38 patients.
(14) It remains an open question whether the syndrom of Richardson-Steele-Olszewski is a syndrome of its own or whether it is just a variety of parkinsonism.
(15) Three female actors, including former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko , are rumoured to be in the running for the lead female role in the upcoming sequel to superhero reboot Man of Steel, reports Variety .
(16) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
(17) Since the heart of the MRI is a large magnet, certain metals such as stainless steel can cause artifacts in the images.
(18) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
(19) Bipolar stainless steel wire electrodes were placed unilaterally into the costal and crural portions of the diaphragm and into the parasternal intercostal muscle in the second or third intercostal space.
(20) The recovery of haemopoiesis in Steel mutant mice following 1 Gy sublethal irradiation is described.
Steen
Definition:
(n.) A vessel of clay or stone.
(n.) A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.
(v. t.) To line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material.
Example Sentences:
(1) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(2) Sixteen gerontopsychiatric inpatients were compared with 33 residents in a somatic nursing home by Gottfries-Bråne-Steen scale.
(3) That's the view of Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo, who said: I remain of the opinion that Greece will “break from the euro” – but in an orderly fashion, meaning with consent of EU and with its support.
(4) The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Gottfries-Bråne-Steen Rating Scale, Nurse's Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation and Buschke Selective Reminding Test were administered before and after placebo and after BC-PS therapy, to monitor changes in depression, memory and general behaviour.
(5) The efficacy was evaluated with a dementia rating scale by Gottfries, Bråne and Steen (GBS), selected items from the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS), a rating scale for dementia adapted for nurses, and by clinical global evaluations.
(6) Co-directed with Steen Johannessen and shot in high-risk conditions in the decimated Syrian capital between 2015 and 2016, it’s a study of the rescue work done by the White Helmet volunteers of the Syrian Civil Defence Force, focusing principally on Khaled Harrah, who has since been killed in action I studied art and film-making in Paris, but after three years of working in television drama, I hated the connection with a fake life – I needed to do something connected with reality, with real people.
(7) Michael Steen of Financial Times reports that journalists were briefly barred from entering the building, but that the engine is now departing.
(8) There are many appalling scenes, but these are adeptly shaped by Danish co-director and editor Steen Johannessen into aesthetic coherence.
(9) So the ECB is not on fire #phew Michael Steen (@michaelsteen) Ok.
(10) Steen Jakobsen, Saxobank This was totally expected because of austerity policies combined with world growth slowing down and a dramatic fall in activity in Germany and the Netherlands.
(11) Clinical evaluation by the Gottfries-Brane-Steen (GBS) scale demonstrated a significant superiority of propentofylline over placebo in the total score and the four GBS factors (motor, intellectual, emotional functions and other symptoms) as well as in the clinical global impression and Mini-Mental State.
(12) Under pressure from Cameron, Steen "unreservedly apologised".
(13) "It is a very large deficit to look forward to in 2012," said Danske bank chief economist Steen Bocian.
(14) Steen said Floyd had reduced his notoriously large alcohol intake before he died.
(15) Primer extension analysis was employed to identify a promoter upstream from the spaE gene, which appears to define the 5' end of the spa operon, which contains four other ORFs (Y. J. Chung, M. T. Steen, and J. N. Hansen, J. Bacteriol.
(16) I’ve told you before about Florence Steen of South Dakota who was 88 years old and insisted that her daughter bring an absentee ballot to her hospice bedside.
(17) Los Angeles County Museum of Art , opens 4 October Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer With more than 70 paintings, from portraits by the titular superstars to lesser-known works by Pieter de Hooch and Jan Steen, this years-in-the-making show examines the Dutch Golden Age through the lens of social standing.
(18) Steen also asks Draghi to elaborate on his comments about how governments should not "unravel" their progress on deficit reduction ( see 1.48pm ).
(19) From 1974 to 1977, 62 wild mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns from Steens Mountain, Ore were euthanatized in autumn (23 deer), winter (21 deer), and spring (18 deer).
(20) One hundred people applied for the job of replacing the sitting Tory MP, Anthony Steen, who is standing down following controversy about his expenses.