You can hold iron as the hard grey metal itself: heavy, strong, and — the stuff of gates, tools, and chains, the metal your blood also needs. Almost everything else grows from two things about this metal: it is tough and unyielding (which becomes 'firm and determined'), and a piece of it can be heated and pressed (which becomes the flat tool you smooth clothes with, and the verb for using it).
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原始詞典資料23 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Ironname詞源 1
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The 57th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Ironname詞源 2
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A group of Ossetians of the northern Caucasus who speak the Iron Ossetian dialect.
Ironadj詞源 2
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Of or pertaining to the Iron people.
ironnoun/ˈaɪ.ən/
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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.
- Today we studied about metals — including 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.
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engineeringmetallurgynatural-sciencesAny material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
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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.
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Any of several other tools traditionally made of wrought iron, now usually of steel.
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Shackles.
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slangA firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.
- It's many niggas now totin' iron.
- Ah, throw that old iron over here! We'll pick it up and go on our way.
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A dark shade of the color silver.
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offensiveslangA male homosexual.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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golfhobbieslifestyleA golf club used for middle-distance shots.
- The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]
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Used as a symbol of great strength or toughness, or to signify a very strong or tough material.
- ironman; a will of iron
- He appeared easygoing, but inside he was pure iron.
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hobbieslifestylesportsWeight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.
- He lifts iron on the weekends.
- I wanted Beauty, and what Nature had failed to supply, Iron would.
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astronomygeographygeologyA meteorite consisting primarily of metallic iron (mixed with a small amount of nickel), as opposed to one composed mainly of stony material.
- 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.
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A safety curtain in a theatre.
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA dumb bomb, one without guidance systems.
ironadj/ˈaɪ.ən/
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Made of the metal iron.
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Strong (as of will), inflexible.
- She had an iron will.
- He held on with an iron grip.
ironverb/ˈaɪ.ən/
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To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
- You'd be wise to iron that shirt before you wear it.
- Out of that tub had come the day before - Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.
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To engage in such pressing of clothing.
- They were washing and ironing all morning.
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archaicTo shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
- [...] is it he who is ironed like a malefactor—who is to be dragged on a hurdle to the common gallows—to die a lingering and cruel death, and to be mangled by the hand of the most outcast of wretches?
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To furnish, clad, or arm with iron.
- to iron a wagon
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