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▸ noun: (uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
▸ noun: (countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
▸ noun: (usually in the plural, irons) Shackles.
▸ noun: (slang) A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.
▸ noun: (uncountable) A dark shade of the color silver.
▸ noun: (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, offensive, shortened from iron hoof, rhyming with poof) A male homosexual.
▸ noun: (golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
▸ noun: (uncountable, figurative) Used as a symbol of great strength or toughness, or to signify a very strong or tough material.
▸ noun: (weightlifting) Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.
▸ noun: (countable, astronomy, geology) A meteorite consisting primarily of metallic iron (mixed with a small amount of nickel), as opposed to one composed mainly of stony material.
▸ noun: A safety curtain in a theatre.
▸ noun: (military, slang) Dumb bombs, those without guidance systems.
▸ adjective: (not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
▸ adjective: (figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To engage in such pressing of clothing.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish, clad, or arm with iron.
▸ noun: The 57th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
▸ noun: A group of Ossetians of the northern Caucasus who speak the Iron Ossetian dialect.
▸ adjective: Of or pertaining to the Iron people.
Similar:
cast-iron,
smoothing iron,
branding iron,
chain,
iron out,
robust,
Fe,
atomic number 26,
steel,
zinc,
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Types:
cast iron,
wrought iron,
steel,
stainless steel,
iron oxide,
hematite,
magnetite,
pyrite,
taconite,
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