Bessemer steel
() Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal |
Cast steel
() See Cast steel, under Steel. |
Core
(n.) A body of individuals |
Core
(n.) A miner's underground working time or shift. |
Core
(n.) A Hebrew dry measure |
Core
(n.) The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc. |
Core
(n.) The center or inner part, as of an open space |
Core
(n.) The most important part of a thing |
Core
(n.) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting |
Core
(n.) A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. |
Core
(n.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. |
Core
(v. t.) To take out the core or inward parts of |
Core
(v. t.) To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting. |
Projectile
(a.) Projecting or impelling forward |
Projectile
(a.) Caused or imparted by impulse or projection |
Projectile
(n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force |
Projectile
(n.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force. |
Steel
(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. |
Steel
(n.) An instrument or implement made of steel |
Steel
(n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. |
Steel
(n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives. |
Steel
(n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint. |
Steel
(n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness |
Steel
(n.) A chalybeate medicine. |
Steel
(n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel |
Steel
(n.) To make hard or strong |
Steel
(n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities. |
Steel
(n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel. |
| steel engraving | the act of engraving on a steel plate |
| core | a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil |
| core | the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place |
| core magnetic core | (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data, now superseded by semiconductor memories, each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit |
| core bit | a hollow drilling bit that is the cutting part of a core drill, allows core samples to be taken |
| core drill | a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole |
Hawaiian guitar
steel guitar | guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect |
magnetic core memory
core memory | (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores, now superseded by semiconductor memories |
projectile
missile | a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled |
| rocket projectile | any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine |
| steel | knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod |
| steel arch bridge | a steel bridge constructed in the form of an arch |
| steel drum | a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum, has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) |
| steel engraving | engraving on a steel plate |
| steel engraving | an impression taken from an engraved steel plate |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
| steel plate | a plate of steel |
| steel trap | a trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey |
| steel-wool pad | abrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing |
sword
blade brand
steel | a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard |
| steel blue | a greyish blue color |
| steel trap | an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps), he's as sharp as a steel trap, a mind like a steel trap |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
| core dump | (computer science) dump of the contents of the chief registers in the CPU, usually used for debugging |
effect
essence
burden
core
gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
| steel company | a company that makes and sells steel |
| steel industry | the industry that makes steel and steel products |
core
nucleus
core group | a small group of indispensable persons or things, five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program |
| steel band | a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands) |
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE | an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in to work for racial equality |
| hard core | the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement |
| core | the center of an object, the ball has a titanium core |
| core | the central part of the Earth |
| core | a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill |
| steel production | making steel from pig iron |
| alloy steel | steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon |
| austenitic steel | steel that has enough nickel and chromium or manganese to retain austenite at atmospheric temperatures |
| case-hardened steel | steel with a surface that is much harder than the interior metal |
| steel | an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon, widely used in construction, mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range |
stainless steel
stainless
chromium steel | steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion |
| carbon steel | steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains |
| crucible steel | steel made by the mixture of molten wrought iron, charcoal, and other substances in a crucible |
Damascus steel
Damask steel | a hard resilient steel often decorated and used for sword blades |
steel wool
wire wool | a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive |
| chisel steel | steel used in making chisels |
chrome-nickel steel
Elinvar | Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures |
| chrome-tungsten steel | a steel alloy made with chromium and tungsten |
drill steel
drill rod | carbon steel used for rock drills and dowels |
| eutectoid steel | a steel that contains .% carbon (the eutectic point), a carbon steel with .% carbon is pure pearlite |
| hard steel | steel with more than .% carbon |