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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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steel

/stiːl/

US pronunciation
American sound/stiːl/
steel
Syllables
1 syllable
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One strong syllable
Vowel
Long vowel
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Myanmar meaning

(n) သံမဏိ

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steel /sti:l / n [U]

၁။ (က) သံမဏိ။ It's made of steel.
❍ steel knives ❍ a concrete and steel structure.
(ခ) သံမဏိလုပ်ငန်း။ the steel strike ❍ deserted steel mills ❍ the steel areas of the north ❍ steel workers. See also STAINLESS STEEL
၂။ (arch or rhet) ဓား၊ လှံလက်နက်။ the taste of cold steel.
v ~ oneself (for/against sth) ; ~ oneself (to do sth) စိတ်တင်းသည်။ She steeled herself for the task of telling them the bad news. ❍ He had to steel himself to pick up the phone.
❏ of steel [IDM ] ခွန်အားဗလကြီးမားကြံ့ခိုင်သော (သို့) မြဲမြံ ကြံ့ခိုင်သော (စိတ်နှလုံး)။ a man of steel ❍ nerves of steel.
❏ steel band n (အနောက်အင်ဒီးစ်ကျွန်းဒေသတွင် စတင် ပေါက်ဖွားသော) သံစည်ပိုင်းတူရိယာတီးဝိုင်း။
❏ steel wool n [U](အိုး၊ ဒယ်စသော သံသတ္တုပစ္စည်းတိုက်ရာတွင်သုံးသည့်)သံမဏိမျှင်ထွေး။ Compare WIRE WOOL
❏ steely adj သံမဏိရောင်ထနေသော (သို့) သံမဏိကဲ့သို့ ကြံ့ခိုင်မြဲမြံသော(ဇွဲလုံ့လ)။ his steely blue eyes ❍ with steely determination. steeliness n [U]

More examples
  • The works produced a million tons of steel a year.
  • A steel helmet/frame/rod/sink
  • The steel industry
  • Iron and steel make up one quarter of the country’s national income.
Synonyms
strengthen, toughen, harden, fortify, brace, animate, bolo, buck up, cheer, cutlass, cutter, cutters, embolden, encourage, ferric, ferrous, gird, grindstone, grit teeth, hearten, inspirit, iron, knife, lancet, make up one's mind, metal, metallic, prepare, prepare oneself, rally, ready, reinforce, ripper, sabre, scalpel, scimitar, scythe, shiv, sickle, skiver, steely, stiletto, stilettos, switchblade, tickler, whetstone
Antonyms
bring down, depress, discourage, dishearten, dissuade, fail, let go, weaken
Cross references
strengthentoughenhardenfortifybraceanimatebolobuck upcheercutlasscuttercuttersemboldenencourageferricferrousgirdgrindstonegrit teethhearteninspiritironknifelancetmake up one's mindmetalmetallicprepare
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