Usually means: Alloy of iron and carbon.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word steel:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. steel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. steel: Merriam-Webster
  3. steel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. steel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. steel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. steel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Steel, steel: Wordnik
  8. steel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Steel, steel: Wiktionary
  10. steel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. steel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. steel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. steel: Dictionary.com
  14. steel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. steel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Steel (Battle Beast album), Steel (John Henry Irons), Steel (TV channel), Steel (The Twilight Zone), Steel (band), Steel (comics), Steel (disambiguation), Steel (film), Steel (metal), Steel (soundtrack), Steel (surname), Steel (video game), Steel (web browser), Steel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Steel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. steel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. steel: Rhymezone
  20. steel, steel (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. steel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. steel: FreeDictionary.org
  23. steel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. steel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. steel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. steel: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. steel: Cook's Thesaurus
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. steel: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Steel (metal), steel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Steel (metal), steel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. STEEL: Acronym Finder
  5. steel: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Steel: Easton Bible
  2. Steel: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. steel, steel, steel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. The Steel, steel: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Steel: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  4. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Bridge and Tunnels Terminology (No longer online)

(Note: See steeled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
noun:  (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
noun:  Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
noun:  A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
noun:  Armor.
noun:  A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
noun:  (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
noun:  (dialectal) A flat iron.
noun:  (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
noun:  (printing) An engraving plate:
noun:  Projectiles.
noun:  (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
noun:  (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
noun:  (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
noun:  (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
noun:  (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
adjective:  Made of steel.
adjective:  Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
adjective:  (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
adjective:  (medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.
adjective:  (printing) Engraved on steel.
verb:  (literally) To treat or furnish with or transform into steel.
verb:  To edge, cover, or point with steel.
verb:  (obsolete, of mirrors) To back with steel.
verb:  (obsolete, medicine) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
verb:  To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
verb:  To sharpen with a honing steel.
verb:  To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
verb:  (figuratively) To cause to resemble steel.
verb:  To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
verb:  (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
verb:  (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
noun:  (UK, crime, slang, obsolete) Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
noun:  A surname.

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