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iron

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
æːn

Definitions

  1. The 57th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
  2. A group of Ossetians of the northern Caucasus who speak the Iron Ossetian dialect.
  3. A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe
  4. A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
  5. Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron
  6. Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. Any of several other tools traditionally made of wrought iron, now usually of steel
  10. Any of several other tools traditionally made of wrought iron, now usually of steel.
  11. Shackles
  12. Shackles.
    countable, plural-normally, uncountable
  13. A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.
  14. A dark shade of the color silver.
  15. A male homosexual.
  16. A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
  17. Used as a symbol of great strength or toughness, or to signify a very strong or tough material.
  18. Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.
  19. A meteorite consisting primarily of metallic iron (mixed with a small amount of nickel), as opposed to one composed mainly of stony material.
  20. A safety curtain in a theatre.
  21. A dumb bomb, one without guidance systems.

Conjugation

Browse the table or drill it — all tenses, moods, and persons of iron.

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Equivalents

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Examples

Today we studied about metalsincluding iron — at school.”
They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass. Ave. wafting in from behind brick buildings and iron gates.”
“Ah, throw that old iron over here! We'll pick it up and go on our way.”
the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]”
ironman; a will of iron
“He appeared easygoing, but inside he was pure iron.”
“He lifts iron on the weekends.”
“I wanted Beauty, and what Nature had failed to supply, Iron would.”
Irons and stony irons can be much larger than stony meteorites and are much more visually striking, but make up only a few percent of all meteorites.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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