Definitions of iron

1.   a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element is silver white in pure form but readily rusts used in construction and tools and armament plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood

2.   implement used to brand live stock

3.   extremely robust an iron constitution

4.   metal shackles for hands or legs

5.   press and smooth with a heated iron press your shirts

6.   home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth

7.   a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head

8.   The most common and most useful metallic element being of almost universal occurrence usually in the form of an oxide as hematite magnetite etc or a hydrous oxide as limonite turgite etc It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms viz cast iron steel and wrought iron Iron usually appears dark brown from oxidation or impurity but when pure or on a fresh surface is a gray or white metal It is easily oxidized rusted by moisture and is attacked by many corrosive agents Symbol Fe Latin Ferrum Atomic weight 55 9 Specific gravity pure iron 7 86 cast iron 7 1 In magnetic properties it is superior to all other substances

9.   Fetters chains handcuffs manacles

10.   Strength power firmness inflexibility as to rule with a rod of iron

11.   Of or made of iron consisting of iron as an iron bar dust

12.   Resembling iron in color as iron blackness

13.   Like iron in hardness strength impenetrability power of endurance insensibility etc

14.   Rude hard harsh severe

15.   Firm robust enduring as an iron constitution

16.   Inflexible unrelenting as an iron will

17.   Not to be broken holding or binding fast tenacious

18.   To shackle with irons to fetter or handcuff

19.   To furnish or arm with iron as to iron a wagon

20.   An iron headed club with a deep face chiefly used in making approaches lifting a ball over hazards etc

21.   An instrument or utensil made of iron chiefly in composition as a flatiron a smoothing iron etc

22.   To smooth with an instrument of iron especially to smooth as cloth with a heated flatiron sometimes used with out

23.   A metallic element found in certain minerals in nearly all soils and in mineral waters It has the atomic symbol Fe atomic number 26 and atomic weight 55 85 It is an essential constituent of hemoglobin cytochrome and other components of respiratory enzyme systems Its chief functions are in the transport of oxygen to tissue hemoglobin and in cellular oxidation mechanisms Depletion of iron stores may result in iron deficiency anemia Iron is used to build up the blood in anemia From Dorland 27th ed

24.   A metallic element the most common and useful of the metals an instrument made of iron especially one to smooth clothes by heat anything especially hard in golf a club made of iron

25.   Pertaining to resembling or made of iron

26.   To smooth with an iron furnish with iron chain

27.   Ferrum a metallic element symbol Fe atomic weight 55 85 It occurs in the chlorophyl of plants and in the hemoglobin of the red blood corpuscles of animals is stored in the tissues in the form of ferratin a loose organic compound and is excreted in the bile A great many iron salts are employed in medicine chiefly in the treatment of anemia and conditions associated with it see ferrum

28.   Metal from which tonic preparations are made as Blaud's Pills etc

29.   To fetter

30.   The most common and useful of the metals an instrument or utensil made of iron strength pl fetters chains

31.   Formed of iron resembling iron rude stern fast binding not to be broken robust dull of understanding

32.   To smooth with an iron instrument to arm with iron to fetter

33.   Made of iron hard like iron

34.   The most common and useful of the metals an instrument made of iron fetter

35.   To smooth with an iron fetter with irons

36.   To smooth with an iron

37.   To fit with iron

38.   Made of or like iron hard rude unyielding heavy

39.   A hard tough malleable metal

40.   Something made of iron as a tool or implement in the plural fetters

41.   Made or consisting of iron resembling iron harsh rude severe binding fast not to be broken hard of understanding dull firm rebust

42.   Chains

43.   The most common and useful of all the metals an instrument or utensil of iron

44.   To smooth with an instrument of iron to shackle with irons to furnish or arm with iron Iron age the last of the four ages being that of enforced toil the last of the three prehistoric ages Iron works the works or establishment where pig iron is wrought into bars c

45.   A well known metal and economically speaking the most important an instr made of it

46.   Chains fetters shackles tools for heating at a fire the poker tongs and shovel for a grate as fire irons

47.   Formed of iron resembling iron in hardness strength c harsh stern severe fast binding impenetrable strong robust as an iron constitution

48.   To smooth with a heated instr made of iron to chain to fetter

Antonyms for iron

feeble, uncertain, spiritless, diffident, insecure, spineless, crumple, weak, wimpy, fragile, characterless, weakened, weak-kneed, wishy-washy, frail, listless, limp, effete, scrunch.

Quotes of iron

1. The brave man indeed calls himself lord of the land through his iron through his blood – Ernst Moritz Arndt

2. Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300 when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron adapted to the different parts of the body – Thomas Bulfinch

3. Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron – Adelbert von Chamisso

4. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent – Winston Churchill

5. Not only strike while the iron is hot but make it hot by striking – Oliver Cromwell

6. Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction This is the case for instance when we produce fire by striking flint against steel or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer – Hermann von Helmholtz

7. No performer should attempt to bite off red -hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth – Harry Houdini

8. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron – Horace Mann

9. The sword the first for a time the only force the force of iron – John Lothrop Motley

10. I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U S tour We started off not even on the bill in Denver and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly and they didn't want to go on – Robert Plant

11. When I say artist I mean the man who is building things creating molding the earth whether it be the plains of the west or the iron ore of Penn It's all a big game of construction some with a brush some with a shovel some choose a pen – Jackson Pollock

12. But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War – Joseph Rotblat

13. Iron hand in a velvet glove – King Charles V

14. Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind – Leonardo da Vinci

15. In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger hard work and iron resolution – Wendell L. Wilkie

Usage examples for iron

1. “ In this state be found the favorite of fortune his iron frame had stood proof against it all ” – The Ghost-Seer (or The Apparitionist), and Sport of Destiny by Frederich Schiller

2. “ Better far than an iron cross for every man in the company ” – The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer

3. “ At first there was little excuse for their existence except to sell to farmers salt fish iron and a few plows ” – A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. Hayes

4. “ It will always continue to be iron ” – The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder

5. “ The people about here call him the man with the iron mouth ” – The Nameless Castle by Maurus Jókai

6. “ Ah none but in this iron age would do it ” – The American Union Speaker by John D. Philbrick

7. “ Its point struck a piece of iron ” – The Birthright by Joseph Hocking

8. “ Accordingly there is no more a fair rate of wages than there is a fair price of cotton or iron ” – Political economy by W. Stanley Jevons

9. “ Take an iron there's a good girl ” – Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan

10. “ Five miles farther was Demir Kapu the Gate of Iron and between these two towns is a high and narrow pass famous for its wild and magnificent beauty ” – With the French in France and Salonika by Richard Harding Davis

11. “ One of them broke his sword in two and threw the pieces at Ney's feet saying It is easier for a man of honour to break iron than to break his word ” – The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

12. “ I was made of iron and blood ” – Pélléas and Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck

13. “ Well I'll let yo' take dis big iron kettle into de library ” – A Little Florida Lady by Dorothy C. Paine

14. “ His voice was iron hard ” – This Freedom by A. S. M. Hutchinson

15. “ Much in fact everything of your success in taking fish in Iron Creek depends on the time of your visit ” – Fly Fishing in Wonderland by Klahowya

16. “ Even iron the triumph as we had supposed of more modern times they had already discovered ” – The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

17. “ What's become of your man he knocked on the head with his leg iron ” – When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

18. “ Vendale opened the iron chamber ” – No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

19. “ The old Prince took a key from his pocket and himself opened the great iron gate ” – Saracinesca by F. Marion Crawford

20. “ The arms around his neck seemed to grip like iron ” – Sinister Paradise by Robert Moore Williams

Idioms for

• an iron hand fist in a velvet glove;
• pump iron;
• rule sb with a rod of iron;
• pump sm iron;
• an iron man;