单词 | steelify |
释义 | steelifyv.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > add mineral to medicine [verb (intransitive)] > iron steel1657 steelify1662 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 227 In the mean time, very many Clisters of Whey steelified,..were injected, and all in vain. 2. To convert into steel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > convert into steel steelify1806 convert1837 steel1853 acierate1860 1806 G. Gregory Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 344/2 Cast iron contains too great a quantity of carbonaceous substance: it may be called steel too much steelified. 1860 Repertory Patent Inventions 35 305 A..Process for Cementing, Converting, Refining, Strengthening and Steelifying Iron. 1888 Jrnl. Frankl. Inst. 125 304 Another process for the formation of steel from iron consists in connecting the mass to be steelified with an electric source. Derivatives ˈsteelified adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [adjective] > converted into steel steelified1860 converted1875 1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) III. 761 The workman has to judge..of the amount of carbon which he has retained from the pig iron;..if too little, he obtains only a steelified iron. ˈsteelifying n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > conversion of metals > of iron into steel conversion1837 steelifying1843 steeling1860 steelification1875 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 262 The time occupied in this steelifying process, is sometimes only minutes instead of hours and days. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2365/2 The substitution of phosphorus for carbon as a ‘steelifying agent’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1662 |
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