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. |
Driven
(p. p.) of Drive |
Driven
(p. p.) of Drive. Also adj. |
Home-driven
(a.) Driven to the end, as a nail |
Pile
(n.) A hair |
Pile
(n.) A covering of hair or fur. |
Pile
(n.) The head of an arrow or spear. |
Pile
(n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. |
Pile
(n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. |
Pile
(v. t.) To drive piles into |
Pile
(n.) A mass of things heaped together |
Pile
(n.) A mass formed in layers |
Pile
(n.) A funeral pile |
Pile
(n.) A large building, or mass of buildings. |
Pile
(n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2. |
Pile
(n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity |
Pile
(n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. |
Pile
(v. t.) To lay or throw into a pile or heap |
Pile
(v. t.) To cover with heaps |
Piles
(n. pl.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.] |
Pile-worn
(a.) Having the pile worn off |
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. |
Three-pile
(n.) An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. |
Weather-driven
(a.) Driven by winds or storms |
| steel engraving | the act of engraving on a steel plate |
atomic pile
atomic reactor
pile
chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
driven well
tube well | a well made by driving a tube into the earth to a stratum that bears water |
Hawaiian guitar
steel guitar | guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect |
lake dwelling
pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake, specifically in prehistoric villages |
| pile nap | the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave, for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction |
pile spile piling
stilt | a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure |
| pile driver | a machine that drives piling into the ground |
sheet pile
sheath pile
sheet piling | a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage |
| 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 |
voltaic pile
pile galvanic pile | battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series, the earliest electric battery devised by Volta |
| steel blue | a greyish blue color |
down
pile | fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) |
| 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 |
pile
heap
mound
agglomerate
cumulation
cumulus | a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
compost heap
compost pile | a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost |
| steel company | a company that makes and sells steel |
| steel industry | the industry that makes steel and steel products |
| steel band | a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands) |
garbage heap
junk heap
rubbish heap
scrapheap
trash heap
junk pile
trash pile
refuse heap | an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter |
pile
bundle
big bucks
megabucks
big money | a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit), she made a bundle selling real estate, they sank megabucks into their new house |
| steel production | making steel from pig iron |
b batch
deal
flock
good deal
great deal
hatful heap
lot
mass
mess
mickle
mint
mountain
muckle
passel
peck
pile
plenty
pot quite a little
raft
sight
slew
spate
stack
tidy sum
wad v b a | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent, a batch of letters, a deal of trouble, a lot of money, he made a mint on the stock market, see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos, it must have cost plenty, a slew of journalists, a wad of money |
f tons
dozens
heaps
lots
piles
scores
stacks
loads
rafts
slews
wads
oodles
gobs
scads
lashings | a large number or amount, made lots of new friends, she amassed stacks of newspapers |
hemorrhoid
haemorrhoid
piles | pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter |
| 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 |
high-speed steel
hot-work steel | an alloy steel that remains hard at a red heat, used to make metalutting tools |