How to pronounce “iron”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
• (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.
• Any of several other tools traditionally made of wrought iron, now usually of steel.
• (usually in the plural, irons) Shackles.
• (slang) A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.
• (uncountable) A dark shade of the color silver.
• (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, offensive, shortened from iron hoof, rhyming with poof) A male homosexual.
• (golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
• (uncountable, figurative) Used as a symbol of great strength or toughness, or to signify a very strong or tough material.
• (weightlifting) Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.
• (countable, astronomy, geology) A meteorite consisting primarily of metallic iron (mixed with a small amount of nickel), as opposed to one composed mainly of stony material.
• A safety curtain in a theatre.
• (military, slang) Dumb bombs, those without guidance systems.
• [Adjective]
• (not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
• (figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
• (intransitive) To engage in such pressing of clothing.
• (transitive, archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
• (transitive) To furnish, clad, or arm with iron.

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