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iron

noun
/ˈaɪ.ən/UK/ˈɑjən//ˈaɪ.ɚn/US/ˈaɪ.ɹən/CA

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”), possibly 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”), Alemannic German Ise (“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”).

  1. derived from *h₁ésh₂r̥✻ — “blood”
  2. derived from *īsarnom✻ — “iron”
  3. inherited from *īsarną✻ — “iron”
  4. inherited from *īsarn✻
  5. inherited from īsern
  6. inherited from iren

Definitions

  1. A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by…

    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.

  2. Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.

  3. A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to…

    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.

  4. ›+ 20 more definitions

    1. Any of several other tools traditionally made of wrought iron, now usually of steel.

    2. Shackles.

    3. A 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.
      • the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip

    4. A dark shade of the color silver.

    5. A male homosexual.

    6. A golf club used for middle-distance shots.

      • The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […]

    7. Used as a symbol of great strength or toughness, or to signify a very strong or tough…

      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.

    8. Weight 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.

    9. A meteorite consisting primarily of metallic iron (mixed with a small amount of nickel),…

      A 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.

    10. A safety curtain in a theatre.

    11. A dumb bomb, one without guidance systems.

    12. Made of the metal iron.

    13. Strong (as of will), inflexible.

      • She had an iron will.
      • He held on with an iron grip.
      • an iron constitution

    14. To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove…

      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.

    15. To engage in such pressing of clothing.

      • They were washing and ironing all morning.

    16. To shackle with irons

      To 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?

    17. To furnish, clad, or arm with iron.

      • to iron a wagon

    18. The 57th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

    19. A group of Ossetians of the northern Caucasus who speak the Iron Ossetian dialect.

    20. Of or pertaining to the Iron people.

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Derived

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, grey iron, 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 alum, iron bacterium, iron band, ironbark, iron-bind, iron-binding, iron bird, iron bloom, iron-blue, iron blue · +229 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at iron. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at iron. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at iron

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA