steels Meaning & Definition
What Does Steels Mean?
Steels is used as a noun meaning plural of steel. It can also mean stocks or stock quotations concerning steel-manufacturing companies. As a verb, it means third-person singular simple present indicative of steel. As a verb, it means To edge, cover, or point with steel.
Steels Definition (Noun)
- plural of steel
- stocks or stock quotations concerning steel-manufacturing companies
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Steels as a Verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of steel
Noun
- An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
- Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
- Varieties of this metal.
- (colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Extreme hardness or resilience.
Verb
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (of mirrors) To back with steel.
- To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
- To press with a flat iron.
- To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
Synonyms of Steels
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