Steel vs Come - What's the difference?
steel | come |
(uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
* Corpus Gloss. , 1431:
* Epinal Gloss. , 49:
* La?amon, Brut , 12916:
*:Þe alle þine leomen wule to-dra?en. þeh þu weore stel al.
* St. Mary Magdalen'', 408 in 1896, W. M. Metcalfe, ''Legends Saints Sc. Dial. , I 267:
* 1601 , P. Holland translating Pliny, Hist. World , II xxxiv xiv 514:
* , Antony & Cleopatra , IV iv 33:
*:...Like a man of Steele .
* 1946 , Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry 4th ed., VII 47 1:
* 1976 Jul, Scientific American , 68 2:
(countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
# Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
#* The Owl & the Nightengale , 1030:
#* , The Tragedie of Macbeth , I ii 35
#* 1712 , Lord Shaftesbury, Characteristicks , III 115:
#* 1892 , (Rudyard Kipling), Barrack-room Ballads , 139:
#* 1905 , Oliver Elton translating , II:
# A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
#* Bestiary , 535:
#* 1660 , (Robert Boyle), New Experiments Physico-mechanicall , XIV 89:
# Armor.
#* Sir Tristrem , L 3324:
#* 1603 , (William Shakespeare), , I iv 33:
#* 1637 , (John Milton), Comus , 421:
# A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
#* 1541 in 1844, J. Stuart, Extracts of the Council Register of Aberdeen , I 176:
#* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood) , :
# (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
#* 1608 , G. Markham & al., Dumbe Knight , I:
#* 1904 Feb 22, Daily Chron , 5 4:
# (dialectal) A flat iron.
#* 1638 , J. Taylor, Bull, Beare, & Horse , C5:
# (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
#* 1785 , (William Cowper), Task , IV 165:
# (printing) An engraving plate:
#* 1843', J. Ballantine, ''The gaberlunzie's wallet. With numerous illustrations on '''steel and wood.
#* 1887 Jun 11, Athenæum , 779 1:
# Projectiles.
#* 1898 Jun 1, Westminster Gazette , 5 1:
# (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
#* 1899 Jan 26, Daily News , 6 3:
# (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
(countable) The part made from this metal, in reference to anything.
* (William Caxton) translating Raoul Le Fèvre, The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye , I:
(uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually ) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
* 1649 , H. Hammond, Christians Obligations , X 253:
* 1704 , J. Harris, Lexicon Technicum , L:
* 1712 Sept 18, (Jonathan Swift), Journal to Stella , II 558:
* 1866 , Princess Alice, Mem. , 158:
(countable) Varieties of this metal.
* 1839 , A. Ure, Dict. Arts , 1172:
(uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray.
* 1851 Dec 28, E. Ruskin, letter in 1965, M. Lutyens, Effie in Venice , II 236:
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), :
Made of steel.
* mid-14th century , Alisaunder , 416:
* (William Shakespeare), , I iii 229
* 1829 , (w), Anne of Geierstein , III iii 78:
* 1976 , J. Wheeler-Bennett, Friends, Enemies, & Sovereigns , V 156:
Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
* T. Phaer translating Vergil, Nyne Fyrst Books of the Eneidos , X:
* 1609 , (William Shakespeare), Sonnet CXXXIII:
(business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
* 1601 , Philemon Holland translating Pliny, The Historie of the World , I vii lvi 188:
*:...The discoverie of the yron and steele mines.
* 1837 , (Thomas Carlyle), French Revolution: A History , III v vi 327:
* 1976 Jan 24, National Observer , 1 1:
(medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.
* 1652 , J. French, York-shire Spaw , X 92:
* 1675 , G. Harvey, Dis. of London , XXIV 264:
* 1713 Feb 17, (Jonathan Swift), Journal to Stella , II 622:
(printing) Engraved on steel.
* 1880 , (Mark Twain), letter:
To edge, cover, or point with steel.
* Sawles Warde'' in ''The Cotton Homilies , 253:
* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), Richard III , I i 148:
** Ile in to vrge his hatred more to Clarence, With lies well steeld with weighty arguments.
* 1651 , Bishop Jeremy Taylor, XXVIII Sermons Preacht at Golden Grove, Being for the Summer Half-year , XIX 248:
* 1831 , John Holland, A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Manufactures in Metal , I 220:
To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
* 1581 , A. Hall translating Homer, 10 Bks. Iliades , VI 110:
* 1593 , (William Shakespeare), Venus & Adonis :
* 1796 , F. Burney, Camilla , II iv vi 370:
* 1882 , F. W. Farrar, Early Days Christianity , II 380:
(transitive, obsolete, of mirrors) To back with steel.
* (John Donne), Sermons , VI 289:
(transitive, medicine, obsolete) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
* 1657 , J. Cooke translating J. Hall, Cures , 117:
(dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
* 1746 , Exmoor Scolding 3rd ed., II 14:
(uncommon) To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
* 1807 , (William Wordsworth), Sonn. to Liberty , II v:
To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
* 1853 in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. , CXXV 303:
* 1977 Oct, Scientific American , 127 1:
To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
* 1880 , P. G. Hamerton, Etching & Etchers 3rd ed., 342:
To sharpen with a honing steel.
(UK, crime, slang, obsolete) in London, closed in 1877.
* 1862 , Havelock Ellis, The Criminal , page 162:
* 1866 , George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar , volume 16, page 507:
* 1879 , Macmillan's Magazine , volume 40, page 502:
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(label) To move from further away to nearer to.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1809-1892)
# To move towards the speaker.
# To move towards the listener.
# To move towards the object that is the of the sentence.
# (label) To move towards the or subject of the main clause.
# To move towards an unstated agent.
(label) To arrive.
*
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(label) To appear, to manifest itself.
* (1613-1680), (Hudibras)
(label) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
To achieve orgasm; to cum.
To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
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To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
To become, to turn out to be.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
(label) To carry through; to succeed in.
(label) Happen.
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, title= To have a social background.
# To be or have been a resident or native.
# To have been brought up by or employed by.
To germinate.
(obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
* 1869 , RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone , II:
(slang) Semen, or female ejaculatory discharge.
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An exclamation to express annoyance.
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An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come , let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
As nouns the difference between steel and come
is that steel is an artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness while come is coming, arrival; approach.As verbs the difference between steel and come
is that steel is to edge, cover, or point with steel while come is to move from further away to nearer to.As an adjective steel
is made of steel.As a proper noun steel
is Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.As a preposition come is
lang=en|Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.As an interjection come is
an exclamation to express annoyance.steel
English
(wikipedia steel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) stele and stel, from (etyl) (North)Noun
- Ocearium stæli .
- Accearium steeli .
- Weman]]...with wordis cane rycht wele [[overcome, our-cum mene hard as stele .
- The purest part thereof [of iron ore] which in Latine is called Nucleus ferri , i. the kernell or heart of the yron (and it is that which we call steele )
- Steel' may be roughly defined as an alloy of iron and carbon containing up to 1.7% carbon, all of the carbon being in the combined condition. A second definition, distinguishing it from cast or wrought iron, is that it has been produced in the molten condition, and a third states that ' steel can be hardened by quenching from a suitably high temperature. There are...certain exceptions to all these definitions.
- For the iron to be made into steel (defined as iron with a carefully controlled carbon content of 1.7 percent or less) the sulfur, the silicon, and the excess carbon must be removed.
- For heom ne may halter ne bridel Bringe from here wode wyse, Ne mon mid stele ne mid ire.
- For braue Macbeth (well hee de?erues that Name)
Di?dayning Fortune, with his brandi?ht Steele ,
Which ?moak'd with bloody execution
(Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his pa??age.
- But who wou'd]] dream that out of abundant Charity and Brotherly Love shou'd come Steel , Fire, [[gibbet, Gibbets, Rods.
- They have asked for the steel . They shall have it now; Out cutlasses and board!
- While one man was beating off the swords, the waters stole up silently and took him. Contrariwise, another was struggling with the waves, when the steel came up and encompassed him. The flowing waters were befouled with the gory spray. Thus the Ruthenians were conquered...
- Of ston mid stel in ðe tunder wel to brennen one ðis wunder.
- The Cock falling with its wonted violence upon the Steel .
- Þai]] gun hem armi In iren and stiel [[that, þat tide.
- In compleate steele .
- She that has [chastity], is clad in compleat steel .
- The steill to scherp the schawing jrne.
- When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones...
- I haue]] a ruffe is a quarter deep, measured by the [[yard, yeard... You haue a pretty set too, how big is the steele you set with?
- I suppose the bullet must have struck the steels in my corsets.
- One of them having occasion to use a Steele , smoothing Iron, or some such kinde of Laundry Instrument.
- The threaded steel ...Flies swiftly.
- A re-issue of the Examples of the Architecture of Venice . By John Ruskin... With the Text, and the 16 Plates (10 Steels and 6 Lithographs) as originally published.
- The crews at the port batteries were pumping steel at the enemy.
- A trailing skirt embroidered in what is termed fine steel .
- Employeng the steell of his swerd the most best wyse that in hym was possible.
- A stronger physick is now necessary, perhaps a whole course of steel : A physick, God knowes, that this Kingdome hath been under five or six yeares.
- Steel is not so good as Iron for Medicinal Operation.
- The Doctor tells me I must go into a Course of Steel , tho I have not the Spleen.
- I...am really only kept alive by steel .
- The bars are exposed to two or three successive processes of cementation, and are hence said to be twice or thrice converted into steels .
- Falkenhayn gave...to Jane a steel glacé silk dress.
- It was a clear steel -blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman’s look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson’s chest in his sleep.
Derived terms
* blister-steel * cast steel * cemented steel * cold steel * concrete steel * draw one's steel * flowers of steel * man of steel * nerves of steel * salt of steel * shear steel * sugar of steel * stainless steel * steel band * steel bandsman * steel bar * steel-barred * steel beetle * steel bender * steel-black * steel blue, steel-blue * steel-born * steel-bosomed * steel-bound * steel-bow * steel-bright * steel-browed * steel cage match * steel-colored * steel-clad * steel driver * steel drops * steel drum * steel drummer * Steele * steel engraving * steel-engraved * steel-engraver * steeler * steel-erector * steel-facing * steel-face * steel-faced * steel fall * steel finch * steel fixer * steel frame * steel-framed * steel framework * steel-girt * steel grain * steel-grained * steel-grated * steel-graven * steel-grey * steel-green * steel guitar * steel-hard * steel-hardened * steel head * steel-hilted * steelie * steelify * steel iron * steel-lined * steel lozenge * steel lustre * steel magnolia * steelmaker, steel-maker * steelmaking, steel-making * steel man * steel marl * steel master * steel mine * steel-nerved * steel-nose * steel oneself * steel orchestra * steel-ore * steelpan, steel pan * steel-piercing * steel pill * steel plant * steel-pointed * steel-rolling * steels * steel saddle * steel-shafted * steel-sharp * steel-shod * steel square * steel-straight * steel-strong * steel-studded * steel tape * steel-tempered * steel-thin * steel-tipped * steel-toe boot * steel-topped * steel to the very back * steel town * steel trade * steel trap * steel-using * steelware * steel water * steel wheel * steel wine * steel wool, steel-wool * steelwork * steelworker, steel-worker, steel worker * steelworking * steelworks * steely * steelyard * steely-eyed * tincture of steel * tool steel * true as steel * wrought steelAdjective
(-)- Strained in stel ger on steedes of might.
- The tyrant custome...Hath made the flinty and steele Cooch]] of warre, My thrice [[driven, driuen bed of downe.
- I will grasp the mountain-hedgehog, prickles and all, with my steel -gauntlet.
- King Peter attributed his father's, King Alexander's, death to the fact that...he had not worn his steel -mesh bullet-proof shirt.
- Wher neuer cessing soyle doth steele bright stuff send out from mines.
- Prison my heart in thy steele bosomes warde.
- From their new dungeons at Chantilly, Aristocrats may hear the rustle of our new steel furnace there.
- East Chicago, Ind., a smoky Lake Michigan steel town that isn't exactly famous for its esthetic splendor even when the sun shines.
- To mix some Sugar of steel, or steel wine with the first glass.
- I have found a singular Virtue in Steel drops, præpared after my Mode.
- I...take some nasty steel drops, & may head has been bettr.
- The best picture I have had yet is the steel frontis-piece to my new book.
Verb
(en verb)- Hure þolien ant a beoren hare unirude duntes wið mealles istelet .
- When God...draws aside his curtain, and shows his arsenal and his armory, full of arrows steeled with wrath.
- It was the common notion...that the art of steeling tools in the highest degree of perfection was certainly lost to the moderns.
- But stil he was so steelde With heart so good, as victor he dead left them in the field.
- Giue me my heart...O giue it me lest thy hard heart do steele' it, And ' being steeld , soft sighes can neuer graue it.
- Steel yourself, then, firmly to withstand attacks from the cruel and unfeeling.
- The rich experience of a long life steeled in the victorious struggle with every unchristian element.
- Nay, a Crystall glasse will not show a man his face, except it be steeled , except it be darkned on the backside.
- She drunk her drink steeled , with which she was cured.
- Tha hasn't tha Sense to stile thy own Dressing.
- And lo! those waters, steeled By breezeless air to smoothest polish, yield A vivid repetition of the stars.
- By passing an electric current thus through the bars the operation of steeling is much hastened.
- It seems evident that by the beginning of the 10th century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron.
- My large dry-point,...called Two Stumps of Driftwood, gave 1000 copies (after being steeled ) without perceptible wearing.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) Bastille (a ).Oxford English Dictionary . "Steel, n. 2".Proper noun
(en proper noun)- I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel . [...] six months in the Bastille (the old House of Corrections), Coldbath Fields.
- He said he had been in the “steel ” (Coldbath Fields Prison) eight times.
- This time I got two moon for assaulting the reelers when canon. For this I went to the Steel (Bastile(sic) — Coldbath Fields Prison), having a new suit of clobber on me and about fifty blow in my brigh (pocket).
References
* 1811 , Lexicon Balatronicum'': ''Steel , the house of correction. * 1819 , J. H. Vaux, New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Mem.'': ''Bastile'', generally called for shortnes, the ''steel a cant name for the House of Correction, Cold-Bath-Fields, London.Anagrams
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come
English
(wikipedia come)Verb
- Look, who comes yonder?
- I did not come to curse thee.
- when butter does refuse to come [i.e. to form]
- How come you thus estranged?
It's a gas, passage=But out of sight is out of mind. And that
Usage notes
In its general sense, come'' specifically marks motion towards the (whether explicitly stated or not). Its counterpart, usually referring to motion away from or not involving the deictic centre, is ''go''. For example, the sentence "Come to the tree" implies contextually that the speaker is already at the tree - "Go to the tree" often implies that the speaker is elsewhere. Either the speaker or the listener can be the deictic centre - the sentences "I will go to you" and "I will come to you" are both valid, depending on the exact nuances of the context. When there is no clear speaker or listener, the deictic centre is usually the focus of the sentence or the topic of the piece of writing. "Millions of people came''' to America from Europe" would be used in an article about America, but "Millions of people ' went to America from Europe" would be used in an article about Europe. When used with adverbs of location, come'' is usually paired with ''here'' or ''hither''. In interrogatives, ''come'' usually indicates a question about source - "Where are you coming from?" - while ''go indicates a question about destination - "Where are you going?" or "Where are you going to?" A few old texts use comen as the past participle. The phrase "dream come true" is a set phrase; the verb "come" in the sense "become" is archaic outside of that set phrase and the collocation "come about". The collocations “come with” and “come along” mean accompany, used as “Do you want to come with me?” and “Do you want to come along?” In the Midwestern American dialect, “come with” can occur without a following object, as in “Do you want to come with?” In this dialect, “with” can also be used in this way with some other verbs, such as “take with”. Examples of this may be found in plays by Chicagoan (David Mamet), such as (American Buffalo).Chicago DialectThis objectless use is not permissible in other dialects.
Antonyms
*Derived terms
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* cam'st * kingdom comeNoun
(-)- “If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
See also
* cumPreposition
(English prepositions)- Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoctions to offer your guests.
- Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
- Come the final whistle, Mikel Arteta lay flabbergasted on the turf.
