steel

1. To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

   (literally, transitive)To edge, cover, or point with steel.

   cover, plate, or edge with steel

2. (literally, transitive)To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.

3. (literally, transitive)To sharpen with a honing steel.

4. (literally, transitive)To steelify; to turn iron into steel.

5. To cause to resemble steel.

   (figuratively, transitive)To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.

6. (figuratively, literary, poetic, transitive)To give (something) the appearance of steel.

7. (dialectal, transitive)To press with a flat iron.

8. To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

   (literally, obsolete, transitive)To back with steel.

9. (literally, obsolete, transitive)To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.

1. I think it's made out of steel.

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2. Tom works at the steel mill.

   ruТом работает на сталелитейном заводе. — Selena777

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3. It's a steel building.

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4. Tom filled his stainless steel coffee mug with coffee.

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5. Despite a shortage of steel, industrial output has increased by five percent.

   ruНесмотря на нехватку стали, выпуск промышленной продукции увеличился на пять процентов. — Wezel

   deTrotz Stahlmangels hat die Industrieproduktion um fünf Prozent zugenommen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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