Iron

Noun



 * 1)  A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26, and symbol Fe.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  shackles.
 * 4)  A handgun.
 * 5)  A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
 * 6)  A male homosexual.
 * 7)  A golf club used for middle-distance shots.

Synonyms

 * ferrum
 * flatiron, smoothing iron
 * shackles
 * poof, queer

Hypernyms

 * chemical element, metal; atom
 * tool, mechanical device
 * restraint
 * weapon
 * colour, color; shade; silver

Hyponyms

 * leg irons
 * driving iron, long iron, short iron, 1-iron, 2-iron, 3-iron, 4-iron, 5-iron, 6-iron, 7-iron, 8-iron, 9-iron,

Meronyms

 * electron
 * neutron
 * proton

Holonyms

 * molecule

Coordinate terms

 * mangle

Derived terms

 * angle iron
 * arsenical iron
 * bar iron
 * barking iron
 * beak-iron
 * beck-iron
 * bick-iron
 * Bessemer iron
 * bog iron
 * bog iron ore
 * boom-iron
 * box iron
 * branding iron
 * cast iron
 * cast-iron
 * chromate of iron
 * chrome iron
 * chrome iron ore
 * chromic iron
 * climbing iron
 * copper-iron
 * corrugated iron
 * cramp-iron
 * crimping iron
 * crisping iron
 * curling iron
 * ductile iron
 * electric iron
 * fire-irons
 * flatiron
 * fresh off the irons
 * galvanised iron
 * galvanized iron
 * gamma-iron
 * grappling iron
 * gray iron
 * have too many irons in the fire
 * in iron
 * in irons
 * Iron Age
 * iron alum
 * ironbark
 * iron-bind
 * iron-binding
 * iron-blue
 * iron-blue fly
 * iron-bound
 * iron buff


 * iron carbide
 * iron-cased
 * iron cement
 * ironclad
 * iron-clad
 * iron chloride
 * iron clay
 * iron cloth
 * Iron Curtain
 * iron curtain
 * iron deficiency
 * iron-deficient
 * ironed
 * iron fall
 * iron flint
 * iron-founder
 * iron-founding
 * iron-foundry
 * iron-free
 * iron gang
 * iron glance
 * iron grass
 * iron-gray
 * iron-grey
 * iron-handed
 * iron-hard
 * iron hat
 * iron-headed
 * ironheads
 * ironheart
 * iron-hearted
 * iron hoof
 * iron horse
 * iron hydroxide
 * iron iodide
 * ironish
 * ironless
 * iron liquor
 * iron loss
 * iron maid
 * iron maiden
 * iron-maker
 * iron-making
 * iron-man
 * iron-manganese tungstate
 * iron mask
 * ironmaster
 * iron mine


 * iron-miner
 * iron-mining
 * iron mold
 * iron mould
 * ironmonger
 * iron monticellite
 * iron mountain
 * ironness
 * iron ore
 * iron oxide
 * iron pan
 * iron period
 * iron phosphate
 * iron-plated
 * iron play
 * iron player
 * iron protoxide
 * iron pyrites
 * iron ration
 * iron salt
 * iron sand
 * iron saw
 * iron scale
 * iron-shod
 * ironshot, iron-shot
 * iron-sick
 * Ironside
 * Ironsides
 * iron-sided
 * iron shrub
 * iron smelting
 * ironsmith
 * iron sponge
 * iron stain
 * iron stand
 * ironstone
 * iron strap
 * iron sulfate
 * iron sulphate
 * iron sulfide
 * iron sulphide
 * iron-sulfur cluster
 * iron-sulphur cluster
 * iron-tree
 * iron tribromide
 * iron trichloride
 * iron tungstate
 * iron virgin


 * ironware
 * ironweed
 * ironwood
 * ironwork
 * ironwort
 * irony
 * iron yellow
 * iron-54
 * iron-56
 * iron-57
 * iron-58
 * Italian iron
 * jagging iron
 * leg-iron
 * midiron
 * nickel-iron
 * pig iron
 * pinking iron
 * pump iron
 * put every iron in the fire
 * red iron oxide
 * sad-iron
 * scrap iron
 * searing-iron
 * sheet iron
 * shooting-iron
 * silicon iron
 * smoothing iron
 * snarling-iron
 * soldering iron
 * sponge iron
 * steam iron
 * stirrup-iron
 * strike while the iron is hot
 * sulfate of iron
 * sulphate of iron
 * tire iron
 * tyre iron
 * toasting-iron
 * toggle-iron
 * to have
 * too many irons in the fire
 * tow-iron
 * waffle iron
 * wear iron
 * white iron
 * wrought iron
 * zinc iron

Related terms

 * andiron
 * gridiron

Adjective

 * 1)  Made of the metal iron.
 * 2)  Strong (as of will), inflexible.
 * She had an iron will.
 * He held on with an iron grip.

Synonyms

 * adamant, adamantine, brassbound

Hypernyms

 * metal, metallic

Hyponyms

 * wrought-iron,

Derived terms

 * iron cap
 * iron chink
 * Iron Cross
 * Iron Duke
 * iron-faced
 * iron-fisted
 * Iron Guard


 * iron gum
 * iron gum tree
 * iron hand
 * iron horse
 * iron jubilee
 * iron law


 * ironly
 * iron lung
 * iron mike
 * iron oak
 * iron paper
 * iron sleep
 * iron slumber


 * iron walls
 * iron wedding
 * iron-willed
 * iron-witted
 * iron-worded

Verb

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

Synonyms

 * press

Coordinate terms

 * mangle

Descendants

 * Japanese: airon

Derived terms

 * ironer
 * ironing


 * iron-on
 * iron out


 * non-iron
 * unironed

Adjectives for Iron
adamantine; crushing; hot; assimilated; magnetized; tempered; redcoated; stubborn; rusted.

Verbs for Iron
alloy with—; cast—; employ—; forge—; gird with—; hammer—; lathe—; magnetize —; mold—; plate with—; polish—; puddle —; roll—; shackle in—; shod with—; smelt —; utilize—; weld—; —clangs; —corrodes; —grates; —masters ; —rusts.

Thesaurus
Gibraltar, Oregon boat, adamant, adamantine, aluminum, americium, aureate, barium, beryllium, bicycle, bike, bilbo, bismuth, bond, bonds, bone, brass, brassy, brazen, brick, bridle, bronze, bronzy, buff, buffer, cadmium, calcium, calender, camisole, cast-iron, cement, cerium, cesium, chains, chamois, chopper, chrome, chromium, cobalt, collar, concrete, copper, coppery, cuffs, cupreous, cuprous, cycle, diamond, dour, drag, dysprosium, erbium, europium, ferrous, ferruginous, fetter, fetters, firm, flint, flinty, fundamentalist, gadolinium, gag, gallium, germanium, gilt, glazer, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, goose, grader, granite, grim, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuffs, hard, hard-core, harrow, heart of oak, hidebound, hobbles, holmium, hopples, horse, hot-press, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, indium, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iridium, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, ironlike, irons, irreconcilable, lanthanum, lead, leaden, leading strings, leash, lion, lithium, lutetium, magnesia, magnesium, manacle, manganese, mangle, marble, mercurial, mercurous, mercury, minibike, molybdenum, motocycle, motorbike, motorcycle, muscle-bound, muzzle, nails, neodymium, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, niobium, oak, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, osmium, ox, palladium, pedicab, pewter, pewtery, phosphorus, pig, pillory, plane, platinum, polisher, polonium, potassium, praseodymium, press, procrustean, promethium, protactinium, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, quicksilver, radium, reins, relentless, restraint, restraints, rhenium, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, road-bike, rock, rock-ribbed, rockbound, roll, roller, rolling pin, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, sander, scandium, shackle, silver, silver-plated, silvery, sodium, steamroller, steel, steely, stern, stiff, stocks, stone, straightjacket, straightlaced, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, straitlaced, stranglehold, strontium, stubborn, tantalum, technetium, terbium, tether, thallium, thulium, tin, tinny, titanium, trail bike, trammel, trammels, tricycle, trike, trowel, tungsten, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unyielding, uranium, vanadium, wheel, wolfram, wringer, yoke, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium

Etymology 1
iren:, a rhotacism of isern:, isærn:, iren:, isen:, from  (compare Dutch ijzer:, German Eisen:, Danish jern:), from  isarno, from  *eisarno (compare Welsh haearn:, Irish iarann:), from  (compare  ēshar, gen. ēs(h)nas, Old Latin aser, assyr,  ysār/yasar, Latvian asino,  éas,  արիւն:,  ásṛk, gen. asnás). The sense development runs from 'blood' to 'blood red' to 'ruddy metal'.

Pronunciation
Metathesized or syncopated from original.

Etymology 3
An extension of Etymology 1.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: yster
 * Alabama:
 * Albanian:
 * Albay Bicolano: ətak
 * Alemannic:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Syriac:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Asturian:
 * Avestan:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: burdin /
 * Belarusian:
 * Bena:
 * Bende:
 * Bengali:
 * Bisaya:
 * Bondei:
 * Bosnian:
 * Brahui:
 * Breton:, / houarnoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Bungu:
 * Catalan:
 * Catawba: dorob
 * Cebuano: puthaw
 * Central Atlas Tamazight:
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᏔᎷᎩᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Gan:
 * Hakka:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min-nan: thih
 * Chuka:
 * Chuvash:
 * Cornish:
 * Corsican:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Doe: chuma
 * Dutch:
 * Embu: cuma
 * Erzya:
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * Fipa: ichela
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gilbertese: biti, monei
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní:
 * Gujarati:
 * Gusii: ekioma, egetange
 * Gweno: minya
 * Gwere: kyoma
 * Ha: ichuuma
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hangaza: ichuma
 * Hawaiian:
 * Haya: ekyoma
 * Hebrew:
 * Hehe: ichuma
 * Hiligaynon: salsalon
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ikizu: echoma
 * Ikoma: ekyoma
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Jita: echuma
 * Kamba: kyUma
 * Karelian:
 * Karok: áyan
 * Kashubian: żelazło
 * Katcha-Kadugli-Miri: ndhalele
 * Kazakh: темир
 * Kerewe: echoma
 * Khakas: timîr
 * Khmer: (trādæk)
 * Kikuyu:
 * Kimbu: ichuma
 * Kinga: ikyoma
 * Kinyarwanda: ichyuma, ubutare
 * Kisi: lyoma
 * Kongo:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Kuria: ikioma
 * Kutu: zuma
 * Kwaya: ekyuma
 * Kwere: zuma
 * Kölsch:
 * Lambya: ichijela
 * Langi: chuma
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish:
 * Lingala:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Logooli: kivya, kichuma
 * Lojban:
 * Low Saxon:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Luganda: kyuma
 * Luhya: shibia, esibya
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Mabia: sitali
 * Macedonian:
 * Machame: minya, shuma


 * Makonde:
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, ferum
 * Malayalam:
 * Malila: ishijela
 * Maltese:
 * Mambwe-Lungu: ichela; fweta (Rungu)
 * Manx:
 * Maori:
 * Marathi:
 * Masaaba: sikyuma, siibyaa, sisiuma
 * Matengo: so ma
 * Matumbi: kyOma
 * Mbunga: kyuma
 * Meru: minya; ithaga, chuma (Imenti); ithaa (Tigania)
 * Mochi: pasi
 * Mongolian:
 * Mpoto: kihano
 * Mwera: chic h ulo
 * Nahuatl:
 * Narom:
 * Navajo: ,
 * Ndali: ichela
 * Ndamba: lyuma
 * Ndengereko: kiuma
 * Neapolitan:
 * Nepali: phalam
 * Ngindo: chOma
 * Ngoni: kyuma
 * Ngoreme: ekyooma
 * Nilamba: ishuka
 * Norman: fé, faer, fer
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Nyakyusa: ikyuma
 * Nyambo: echoma
 * Nyamwanga: ichela
 * Nyamwezi: kIsInza; chUma, gIsInza (Ntuzu)
 * Nyankole: ekyoma
 * Nyaturu: ichuria, ichuma
 * Nyoro: obutare
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old English:
 * Old Norse:
 * Old Prussian: gelzā
 * Ossetian:
 * Pali:
 * Pangwa: shuma
 * Persian:
 * Pimbwe: ichela
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Potawatomi: biwabuk
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Rombo: menya (mkuu)
 * Rotuman:
 * Rufiji: kioma
 * Rukiga: obutare
 * Rundi: ikyuma
 * Rungwa: ichela
 * Russian:, феррум
 * Safwa: ijela
 * Sami:
 * Samoan: u'amea
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: iarrnaig,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: gvožđe,
 * Seri:
 * Shambala: kiama
 * Shubi: ichuuma
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Soga: ekyuma
 * Spanish:
 * Suba: ikyoma
 * Sudovian: gelzā
 * Sukuma: jisinza
 * Sumbwa: syoma
 * Sumerian:
 * Sumo: ayan
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Taita: chuma
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Temi: gexoji
 * Thai:
 * Tharaka: ithaga
 * Tooro: ekyoma
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: تۆمۈر
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Vinza: ikyuma
 * Volapük: ferin
 * Vunjo: menya
 * Wanda: ohela
 * Wanji: kyuma
 * Warlpiri:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: izer
 * Wolof: feer, weñ
 * Yao: chisyano
 * Yiddish:
 * Zanaki: ekyema
 * Zaramo: zuhma
 * Zigula: zuma
 * Zimba: chuma
 * Zinza: echooma


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azeri: ütü
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: planxa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:, ferro de repassar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 울두, 화두
 * Latvian: gludeklis


 * Lithuanian:, lygintuvas
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: seterika
 * Navajo: béésh kʼééʼéldǫǫhí
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: hladidlo
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: ఇస్త్రీ
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, залізко
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: bàn ủi, bàn là


 * Georgian: რკინა


 * : taol-feriñ
 * : дамга (damga) (2.2), маша (maša)  (2.3), поялник (pojalnik)  (2.5)
 * : echuma


 * : chuma
 * : chuma
 * : echuma
 * : kyo ma
 * : kyo ma
 * : kyo ma
 * : ishijera
 * : ishoma
 * : ishoma
 * : ishijera
 * : ishijera

Adjective

 * Armenian: ,
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian: железен (želézen), желязна (željázna) , желязно (željázno) , желязни (željázni)
 * Catalan: de ferro
 * Chinese: 鐵製的, 铁制的
 * Danish: jern-
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: de fer
 * German: eisern
 * Greek: σιδερένιος
 * Interlingua: de ferro,
 * Italian:, ,


 * Japanese:
 * Latin:, -a, -um
 * Latvian: dzelzs-
 * Lithuanian: geležinis
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: de ferro, férreo, férrea
 * Romanian: de fier, din fier
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:, železná, železné
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: järn-
 * Ukrainian: залізний


 * Armenian: ,
 * German: eisern
 * Greek: σιδερένιος
 * Italian:
 * Polish:


 * Romanian: de fier
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: järn-
 * Ukrainian: залізний

Verb

 * Armenian: ,
 * Azeri: ütüləmək
 * Bosnian: peglati
 * Breton: feriñ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: planxar
 * Chinese: 熨 (yùn), 熨烫 (yùntàng), 烫 (tàng)
 * Czech: žehlit
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: σιδερώνω
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, straua
 * Indonesian: setrika, menyeterika
 * Interlingua: repassar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: アイロンをかける
 * Korean: 다림질하다


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: وتو کردن, ئوتو کردن
 * Latin: ferro levigare
 * Latvian: gludināt
 * Lithuanian: lyginti, laidyti
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: strøk
 * Polish: prasować
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: пеглати
 * Roman: peglati
 * Slovak: žehliť
 * Slovene: ; vkleniti, vkovati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Turkish: ütülemek
 * Ukrainian: прасувати
 * Vietnamese: ,

Anagrams

 * inro, inrō
 * noir
 * nori
 * Orin
 * RINO

Noun

 * 1) objection, differing opinion