0 a strong metal that is a mixture of iron and carbon, used for making things that need a strong structure, especially vehicles and buildings: --
1 to force yourself to get ready to do something unpleasant or difficult: --
[ + to infinitive ] She steeled herself to jump out of the plane.
2 a strong metal that is made by processing iron to remove some of the carbon: --
3 to prepare yourself to be able to do something unpleasant or difficult: --
She steeled herself to face her accusers.
4 a strong metal that is a mixture of iron and carbon, used for making things that need a strong structure, especially vehicles and buildings: --
Could the difference between £200 million and £130 million, namely, £70 million, be designated for special steels between now and 1980?
There is a special case for electric arc plants which make special steels.
We continue to produce high-tech steels for worldwide markets.
On the one side there are low grade carbon steels, which are made in great quantities and which form the greater part of the output.
Last year we had the ridiculous situation of rationing structural steels because our price was too low, and this year we are closing plants.
Sanctions have stimulated its industries and steeled the white population to see things through to the end.
There is a deeper, richer, more enduring compassion, the compassion which steels a man to do his duty.
There is the failure to mention any possibility in regard to steel's political future.
