iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æːn/
ipa: /æən/
ipa: /ˈaɪən/
enpr: ī'ərn
ipa: /ˈaɪ(ə)ɹn/
ipa: /ˈaɪɹən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajə(r)n/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajrən/
homophone: ion stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: irons
Etymology: From Middle English iren, from Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną (“iron”), from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (“iron”), a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots airn, ern (“iron”), Yola eeren (“iron”), Saterland Frisian Iersen (“iron”), West Frisian izer (“iron”), Bavarian Eisn (“iron”), Cimbrian aizarn (“iron”), Dutch ijzer (“iron”), German, Luxembourgish Eisen (“iron”), German Low German Isen (“iron”), Limburgish iezer (“iron”), Mòcheno aisn (“iron”), Vilamovian ȧjza (“iron”), West Flemish yzer (“iron”), Yiddish אײַזן (ayzn, “iron”), Danish jern, jærn (“iron”), Faroese jarn (“iron”), Icelandic járn (“iron”), Jamtish járn, jáðn (“iron”), Norwegian Bokmål jern (“iron”), Norwegian Nynorsk jarn, jern, jønn (“iron”), Swedish jern, jaͤrn, järn (“iron”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂𐌽 (eisarn, “iron”).
Senses: examples: text: He studied about rocks including iron in school.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:iron.
synonyms: ferrum
hypernyms: metal#Noun
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glosses: 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.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: metal#Noun
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substance#Noun
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material#Noun
glosses: Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
synonyms: clothes iron
flatiron
smoothing iron
coordinate_terms: clothes press
mangle
glosses: 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.
hypernyms: tool#Noun
glosses: Any of several other tools traditionally made of wrought iron, now usually of steel.
qualifier: irons
glosses: Shackles.
examples: text: Ah, throw that old iron over here! We'll pick it up and go on our way.
ref: 1948, John Huston, Treasure of the Sierra Madre:
text: the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
ref: 1959, Marty Robbins, “Big Iron”:
synonyms: shooting iron
glosses: A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.
glosses: A dark shade of the color silver.
synonyms: poof
queer
qualifier: shortened from iron hoof; rhyming with poof; shortened from iron hoof; rhyming with poof
glosses: A male homosexual.
examples: text: The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]
ref: 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
examples: text: ironman; a will of iron
text: He appeared easygoing, but inside he was pure iron.
glosses: Used as a symbol of great strength or toughness, or to signify a very strong or tough material.
examples: text: He lifts iron on the weekends.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.
examples: text: 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.
topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A meteorite consisting primarily of metallic iron (mixed with a small amount of nickel), as opposed to one composed mainly of stony material.
glosses: A safety curtain in a theatre.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Dumb bombs, those without guidance systems.
Hypernyms: sense: metal
word: metal
Hyponyms: alpha iron
angle iron
arsenical iron
bad iron
bar iron
barking iron
Berlin iron
Bessemer iron
beta iron
big iron
black iron
bloomery iron
bog iron
box iron
branding iron
brandiron
bridle iron
calking iron
cast iron
caulking iron
chrome iron
chromic iron
climbing iron
clothing iron
cobiron
cold iron
corrugated iron
cramp iron
crance iron
cranse iron
crimping iron
crisping iron
croze iron
curling iron
delta iron
diiron
draw iron
ductile iron
electric iron
epsilon iron
fire iron
firing iron
flatiron
flat iron
fresh off the irons
galvanised iron
galvanized iron
gamma iron
gammon iron
gob iron
goose iron
grab iron
grappling iron
gray iron
grozing iron
hair iron
harping iron
hawser iron
heptairon
hexaaquairon
hexairon
horse iron
iron-54
iron-56
iron-57
iron-58
Italian iron
jagging iron
leg iron
lily iron
lofting iron
malleable iron
mashie iron
meaking iron
merchant iron
meteoric iron
meteoritic iron
midiron
motley iron
noniron
octairon
organoiron
patty iron
pentairon
pie iron
pig iron
pinking iron
plane iron
plough iron
plow iron
pumping iron
pump iron
pyrophoric iron
Quevenne's iron
radioiron
riesel iron
ripping iron
road iron
roast iron
round iron
rub iron
running iron
Russia iron
Russian iron
sable iron
sadiron
sand iron
scrap iron
scribing iron
shaving iron
sheet iron
silicon iron
smoothing iron
snarling-iron
snarling iron
soldering iron
span iron
sparry iron
spathic iron
specular iron
spiegel iron
sponge iron
steam iron
steely iron
stirrup iron
stony iron
stub iron
sweating iron
sweet iron
tamping iron
tank iron
telluric iron
tetrairon
tire iron
toggle iron
tow iron
tramp iron
triron
tyre iron
uniron
waffle iron
wear iron
white iron
wroughtiron
wrought iron
zinc iron
Derived terms: balling-iron
beak-iron
beck-iron
bick-iron
bog iron ore
boom-iron
brand-iron
cast-iron
cast-iron stomach
chromate of iron
chrome iron ore
clothing-iron
copper-iron
cramp-iron
faggot iron
fagot iron
flat iron steak
gal-iron
gamma-iron
green iron ore
hack-iron
hard as iron
have too many irons in the fire
hot iron test
in iron
in irons
ironable
Iron Acton
iron age
Iron Age
iron alum
iron bacterium
iron band
ironbark
iron-bind
iron-binding
iron bird
iron bloom
iron-blue
iron blue
iron-blue fly
iron bomb
Ironbottom Sound
ironbound
iron brew
Ironbridge
iron buff
iron butterfly
iron cage
ironcaps spider orchid
iron carbide
iron-cased
iron cement
iron chloride
iron-clad
ironclad
iron clay
iron cloth
iron condor
Iron County
iron cross
Iron Curtain
iron curtain
iron deficiency
iron-deficient
Iron Dome
iron eagle
ironed
ironedetate
iron fall
ironfield
iron filings
iron fist
iron flint
ironfounder
iron-founder
ironfounding
iron foundry
iron-free
iron-gall ink
iron game
iron gang
Iron Gates
iron glance
iron grass
iron-gray
iron gray
iron-grey
iron grey
iron group
ironhanded
iron handed
iron-handed
iron-handedly
iron handedly
iron-handedness
iron handedness
iron-hard
iron harvest
iron hat
iron-headed
ironheads
ironheart
iron-hearted
iron-heartedness
iron heater
iron heel
iron hoof
iron horse
iron house
iron hydroxide
iron(III) chloride
iron(III) oxide
iron iodide
ironish
iron lady
ironless
ironlike
iron liquor
iron loss
iron maid
iron maiden
ironmaker
iron-maker
ironmaking
iron-making
iron-manganese tungstate
iron man
ironman
iron mask
ironmaster
iron meteorite
Iron Mike
iron mine
ironmine
iron-miner
iron mining
iron mold
ironmonger
ironmongery
iron monticellite
iron-montmorillonite
iron mould
iron mountain
Iron Mountain
ironness
iron ore
iron oxide
iron pan
iron period
ironperson
iron phosphate
iron-plated
iron play
iron player
iron protoxide
iron pyrite
iron pyrites
Iron Range
iron ration
iron rice bowl
iron ring
iron road
iron saffron
iron salt
iron sand
ironsand
iron saw
iron scale
ironshod
iron-shod
ironshot, iron-shot
iron shrub
iron-sick
Ironside
ironside
iron-sided
Ironsides
iron smelting
ironsmith
iron sponge
Iron Springs
iron stain
iron stand
ironstone
iron strap
iron sulfate
iron sulfide
iron-sulfur cluster
iron-sulfur protein
iron sulphate
iron sulphide
iron-sulphur cluster
iron-sulphur protein
Ironton
iron-tree
iron triad
iron triangle
iron tribromide
iron trichloride
iron tungstate
Ironville
iron virgin
iron vitriol
ironware
ironweed
ironwoman
ironwood
ironwork
ironworker
ironworking
ironwort
irony
iron yellow
lamp-iron
leg irons
making-iron
mid-iron
nickel-iron
proto-iron
put every iron in the fire
red iron oxide
rule with a rod of iron
sad-iron
searing-iron
shank-iron
shooting-iron
stony-iron
stretching-iron
strike the iron while it's hot
strike while the iron is hot
sulfate of iron
sulphate of iron
toasting-iron
toggle-iron
too many irons in the fire
tow-iron
tue-iron
wouldn't work in an iron lung
yttrium iron garnet
Related terms: andiron
gridiron