CAST-IRONとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Derived from the casting of this form of iron. See wrought iron for comparison.

名詞

cast iron (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cast irons)

1. A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould.

   Cast iron is popular for cookware where an even heating temperature is important.

形容詞

cast iron (comparative more cast iron, superlative most cast iron)

1. (not comparable) Made of cast iron.

   I use a cast-iron skillet for frying pancakes.

   • 2008, Steven P. Moysey, The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London, Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 58:

     Three small gelignite bombs, with pocket watch timing devices, were concealed in packets small enough to fit through the slot of the standard cast-iron post box, the cylindrical bright red colored boxes so common throughout London.

2. Durable; tough; resilient.

   Ernest has a cast-iron constitution and never gets sick.

3. Inflexible or without exception.

   The school's cast-iron policy on admissions fees left no leeway for needy students.

   • 2016, Rod Liddle, What makes the white working class angry? Twits like Hsiao-Hung Pai (in The Spectator, 19 March 2016)

     As far as her own theories are concerned, she is limitlessly credulous, to a degree which makes me suspect that she is a cast-iron idiot.

同意語

• (durable, tough, resilient): bulletproof, impervious, iron, robust, unshakable
• (inflexible または without exception): iron-clad, stern, unrelenting, unwavering

派生語

• cast-iron stomach

関連する語

• wrought iron
• pig iron

アナグラム

• C-rations, Cortinas, Crisanto, Nicastro, Nicotras, anticors, cantoris, carotins, castorin, conistra, cortinas, nicators, tricosan-

形容詞

castiron (comparative more castiron, superlative most castiron)

1. Alternative spelling of cast iron
   • 1974, Hjalmar Thesan, Country Days: Chronicles of Knysna & the Southern Cape, David Philip, published 1974, →ISBN, page 35:

     Camped around its base and sleeping in a primitive 'skerm' of branches at night, with a bubbling castiron pot over a permanent fire, they would chip away until the great tree was down.

   • 1986, Donald Hall, The Happy Man: Poems, Random House, published 1986, →ISBN, page 21:

     we add wood to the castiron stove, and midnight's
     candlelight trembles on the ceiling

   • 1999, Ken Hodgson, The Hell Benders, Pinnacle Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 139:

     A large, castiron pot of beef stew was slowly simmering.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:castiron.

名詞

castiron (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of cast iron
   • 1989, Popular Science, November 1989, page 133 (advertisement):

     Build low-cost safe furnace to melt aluminum, brass, even 20 pounds of castiron!

   • 1991, Robin Clark, Divina Trace, Robin Clark, published 1991, →ISBN, page 115:

     (Of course, they ain't no churchveil in the world could withstand the bruising of a history like the one oldman Salizar かつ that Mother Maurina gave me later – unless of course it make from castiron – but fortunately enough I haven't heard of none of that nonsense yet.)

   • 1995, Paul Jackson, Smoking Allowed: A Pictorial Past of Honey Bee Smokers in the United States, A.I. Root Company, published 1995, →ISBN, page 14:

     The brackets attaching the fire chamber to the bellows are made from castiron.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:castiron.

アナグラム

• C-rations, Cortinas, Crisanto, Nicastro, Nicotras, anticors, cantoris, carotins, castorin, conistra, cortinas, nicators, tricosan-