cast‐ironの英語

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

A cast-iron frying pan

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; resiliant.

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

名詞

cast-iron (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of cast iron

アナグラム

• C-rations, Cortinas, Crisanto, Nicastro, Nicotras, anticors, cantoris, carotins, castorin, conistra, 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 (1974), ISBN 9780949968395, 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 (1986), ISBN 0394746120, 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 (1999), ISBN 9780786006700, page 139:

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

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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 (1991), ISBN 9780879514457, 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 (1995), ISBN 9780936028064, page 14:

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

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