Steel wool

Definition

steel /sti:l / n [U] ၁။ (က) သံမဏိ။ It's made of steel. ❍ steel knives ❍ a concrete and steel structure. (ခ) သံမဏိလုပ္ငန္း။ the steel strike ❍ deserted steel mills ❍ the steel areas of the north ❍ steel workers. See also STAINLESS STEEL ၂။ (arch or rhet) ဓား၊ လွံလက္နက္။ the taste of cold steel. v ~ oneself (for/against sth) ; ~ oneself (to do sth) စိတ္တင္းသည္။ 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 ] ခြန္အားဗလႀကီးမားႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ (သို႔) ၿမဲၿမံ ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ (စိတ္ႏွလံုး)။ a man of steel ❍ nerves of steel. ❏ steel band n (အေနာက္အင္ဒီးစ္ကြၽန္းေဒသတြင္ စတင္ ေပါက္ဖြားေသာ) သံစည္ပိုင္းတူရိယာတီးဝိုင္း။ ❏ steel wool n [U](အိုး၊ ဒယ္စေသာ သံသတၱဳပစၥည္းတိုက္ရာတြင္သံုးသည့္)သံမဏိမွ်င္ေထြး။ Compare WIRE WOOL ❏ steely adj သံမဏိေရာင္ထေနေသာ (သို႔) သံမဏိကဲ့သို႔ ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ၿမဲၿမံေသာ(ဇြဲလံု႔လ)။ his steely blue eyes ❍ with steely determination. steeliness n [U]

Examples

1. The works produced a million tons of steel a year.
2. A steel helmet/frame/rod/sink
3. The steel industry
4. Iron and steel make up one quarter of the country’s national income.