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单词 stainless steel
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stainless steeln.

Etymology: < stainless adj. + steel n.1
1. A chromium-steel alloy, usually containing about 14 per cent of chromium when used for cutlery, etc., that does not rust or tarnish under oxidizing conditions because of the formation of a film of oxide on its surface. Frequently attributive.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > alloy steels > chromium or stainless steel
chrome steel1878
stainless steel1917
Staybrite1925
stainless1971
1917 Sci. Amer. 31 Mar. 329/2 A steel that does not stain or tarnish is one of the latest new materials... It is called ‘stainless steel’.
1920 Glasgow Herald 4 Aug. 9 Since the Armistice there has been an enormous sale of stainless steel for cutlery purposes.
1926 J. H. G. Monypenny Stainless Iron & Steel i. 6 Stainless steel was first introduced to the public in 1914 in the form of table cutlery.
1926 J. H. G. Monypenny Stainless Iron & Steel i. 13 The discovery of the non-corrosive properties of stainless steel by Brearley, in 1913, was something entirely new in the history of chromium steels.
1932 Discovery May 145/1 There are three principal types of stainless steel. Low carbon stainless steel, frequently called stainless iron, contains less than 0·12 per cent of carbon and from 11 to 12 per cent of chromium... Cutlery steel, so called because it was first used for knives, contains 0·3 per cent of carbon and from 12 to 15 per cent of chromium... Austenitic stainless steel has the highest resistance of all to corrosion and is the most generally useful of the stainless steels.
1958 Times Rev. Industry Apr. 73/1 There were..many worthy examples of..the application of newer materials, especially stainless steel and aluminium, to domestic requirements.
1979 V. S. Naipaul Bend in River v. 83 The stainless steel jug..had only a stale-looking trickle of powdered milk.
2. figurative or in figurative context: chiefly used attributively with allusion to the qualities of brightness, hardness, coldness, etc., associated with stainless steel.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adjective]
shillOE
brightOE
shrillc1386
sharp1390
keena1400
shirl1418
piercingc1425
acute1504
shrillish1583
shrilly1594
ear-piercinga1616
sonable1623
oxytonous1653
argute1719
snellc1730
chanticleering1786
criard1840
squealing1879
shrilled1880
bird-high1920
bleaty1925
stainless steel1963
the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [noun] > something bright > specific
quicksilver1820
stainless steel1963
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > inflexible > of a person
hardenedc1480
stout1586
ramrod1850
rawhide1883
hard-assed1954
stainless steel1963
1963 Times 10 June 6/5 Miss Astrid Varney's Isolde has the hallmark of true greatness upon it, but sometimes the voice takes on a stainless steel quality that would be more suited to the role of Ortrud.
1964 G. Lyall Most Dangerous Game xxiii. 192 I was..searching for the stainless-steel glint of a river to fix my position.
1974 Publishers Weekly 25 Mar. 6/2 She is..married to Sir Alfred Ayer, the celebrated English philosopher, whom she describes affectionately as ‘the man with the stainless steel mind’.
1978 R. Doliner On the Edge (1979) ix. 142 His ego was gleaming hard, made of stainless steel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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