Iron

Gujarati Meaning

English Meaning

1. A silvery-white, lustrous, malleable, ductile, magnetic or magnetizable, metallic element occurring abundantly in combined forms, notably in hematite, limonite, magnetite, and taconite, and used alloyed in a wide range of important structural materials. Atomic number 26; atomic weight 55.845; melting point 1,535°C; boiling point 2,750°C; specific gravity 7.874 (at 20°C); valence 2, 3, 4, 6. See Table at element.
2. An implement made of iron alloy or similar metal, especially a bar heated for use in branding, curling hair, or cauterizing.
3. Great hardness or strength; firmness: a will of iron.
4. Sports Any of a series of golf clubs having a bladelike metal head and numbered from one to nine in order of increasing loft.
5. A metal appliance with a handle and a weighted flat bottom, used when heated to press wrinkles from fabric.
6. A harpoon.
7. Fetters; shackles.
8. A tonic, pill, or other medication containing iron and taken as a dietary supplement.
9. Made of or containing iron: iron bars; an iron alloy.
10. Strong, healthy, and capable of great endurance: an iron constitution.
11. Inflexible; unyielding: iron resolve.
12. Holding tightly; very firm: has an iron grip.
13. To press and smooth with a heated iron: iron clothes.
14. To remove (creases) by pressing.
15. To put into irons; fetter.
16. To fit or clad with iron.
17. To iron clothes.
18. iron out To settle through discussion or compromise; work out.
19. in irons Nautical Lying head to the wind and unable to turn either way.
20. iron in the fire An undertaking or project in progress: has many irons in the fire this year.