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How to pronounce “steel”
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Pronunciation guide for steel
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of steel with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Importance of Women Leaders & High Achievers
famous steel ceiling, as I call it. So, you know, I had the corporate experience of understanding
- Definition summary
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
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How to pronounce steel
The Importance of Women Leaders & High Achievers
famous steel ceiling, as I call it. So, you know, I had the corporate experience of understanding
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “steel”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
- (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- [Adjective]
- Made of steel.
- Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
- (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
- (medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.
- (printing) Engraved on steel.
- [Verb]
- (literally) To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.
- (figuratively) To cause to resemble steel.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
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