Iron vs Blood - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
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(uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
(countable) 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.
Shackles.
(slang) A handgun.
(uncountable) A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
A male homosexual.
(golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
(uncountable) Great strength or power.
(not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
(figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
(archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
* Sir Walter Scott
To furnish or arm with iron.
A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
A blood test or blood sample.
The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
* 1841 , Benjamin Parsons,
* 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
* 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
(label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
* Bible, (w) xiix. 11
(label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(member of a certain gang).
To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
To let blood (from); to bleed.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
As nouns the difference between iron and blood
is that iron is pencil while blood is .iron
English
(wikipedia iron)Noun
Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron .}}
Quotations
* (English Citations of "iron")Synonyms
* (metallic chemical element) ferrum * (tool for pressing clothing) flatiron (old-fashioned), smoothing iron (old-fashioned) * (shackles) shackles * (homosexual) poof, queer * (strength or power) energy, forceHypernyms
* (metallic chemical element) chemical element, metal; atom * (tool for pressing clothing) tool, mechanical device * (shackles) restraint * (handgun) weapon * (dark shade of silver) colour, color; shade; silver * (strength or power) force, might, energyHyponyms
* (shackles) leg irons * (golf club) driving iron, long iron, short iron, , * (strength or power) ironmanMeronyms
* (parts or members of metallic chemical element) electron, neutron, protonHolonyms
* (metallic chemical element) molecule (sometimes)Coordinate terms
* (tool for pressing clothing) mangleDerived terms
* angle iron * arsenical iron * bar iron * barking iron * beak-iron * beck-iron * bick-iron * big 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 * ironman * iron-manganese tungstate * iron mask * ironmaster * iron meteorite * 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 * * * * * 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 ironSee also
* cementite * colcothar * ferrate * ferratin * ferredoxin * ferretto * ferrimagnetism * ferrite * ferritin * ferronerie * ferronnerie * * * Flores martis * haem * heme * haematite * hematite * haemochromatosis * hemochromatosis * magnetite * molysite * nife * Prussian blue * rust * steel * synthetic maghemite * wustite *References
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had an iron will.
- He held on with an iron grip.
- an iron constitution
Synonyms
* adamant, adamantine, brassboundHypernyms
* (made of the metal iron) metal, metallicHyponyms
* (made of the metal iron) wrought-ironSee also
* ferrous, ferricDerived 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-wordedVerb
(en verb)- Ironed like a malefactor.
- to iron a wagon
Synonyms
* (to pass an iron over) pressCoordinate terms
* (to pass an iron over) mangleDescendants
* Japanese:Derived terms
* ironer * ironing * iron-on * iron out * non-iron * unironedblood
English
(wikipedia blood)Alternative forms
* bloud (obsolete)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- a friend of our own blood
- to share the blood of Saxon royalty
Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
- Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
- Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
- He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
- when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
- Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
- It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .