Steel vs. Grillage

Steel and Grillage Definitions
Steel
A generally hard, strong, durable, malleable alloy of iron and carbon, usually containing between 0.2 and 1.5 percent carbon, often with other constituents such as manganese, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, copper, tungsten, cobalt, or silicon, depending on the desired alloy properties, and widely used as a structural material.
Grillage
A network or frame of timber or steel serving as a foundation, usually on ground that is wet or soft.
Steel
Something, such as a sword, that is made of steel.
Grillage
A foundation of crisscrossing timber or steel beams, usually for spreading heavy loads over large areas.
Steel
A quality suggestive of this alloy, especially a hard, unflinching character.
Grillage
A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.
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Steel
Steel gray.
Steel
Made with, relating to, or consisting of steel
Steel beams.
The steel industry.
A bicycle with a steel frame.
Steel
Very firm or strong
A steel grip.
Steel
Of a steel gray.
Steel
To cover, plate, edge, or point with steel.
Steel
To make hard, strong, or obdurate; strengthen
He steeled himself for disappointment.
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Steel
An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
Steel
(countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
Steel
Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
Steel
A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
Steel
Armor.
Steel
A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
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Steel
(sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
Steel
(dialectal) A flat iron.
Steel
A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
Steel
(printing) An engraving plate:
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Projectiles.
Steel
(sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
Steel
A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
Steel
Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
Steel
(countable) Varieties of this metal.
Steel
The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
Steel
(figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
Steel
Made of steel.
Steel
Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
Steel
(business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
Steel
Containing steel.
Steel
(printing) Engraved on steel.
Steel
(transitive) To edge, cover, or point with steel.
Steel
(transitive) To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
Steel
To back with steel.
Steel
To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
Steel
To press with a flat iron.
Steel
To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
Steel
(transitive) To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
Steel
(transitive) To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
Steel
(transitive) To sharpen with a honing steel.
Steel
Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
Steel
A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
Steel
An instrument or implement made of steel
Steel
A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
While doubting thus he stood,Received the steel bathed in his brother's blood.
Steel
Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
Steel
An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
Steel
A chalybeate medicine.
Steel
A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
Steel
To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
Steel
To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
Lies well steeled with weighty arguments.
O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts.
Why will you fight against so sweet a passion,And steel your heart to such a world of charms?
Steel
To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
These waters, steeledBy breezeless air to smoothest polish.
Steel
To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
Steel
An alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
Steel
A cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade
Steel
Knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
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Get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
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Cover, plate, or edge with steel