Cast Iron

Definition: Cast Iron

Cast Iron

Noun

1. An alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Metallurgy

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hardness

Stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant; bone, cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board, deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail; brick, concrete; cement.

Crosswords: Cast Iron

References

• Korea Cast Iron Pipe Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Pig Iron, Cast Iron and Spiegeleisen in Pigs and Blocks in Latin America (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Pig iron, Cast Iron and Spiegeleisen in Pigs and Blocks Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Pig iron, Cast Iron and Spiegeleisen in Pigs and Blocks Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Pig iron, Cast Iron and Spiegeleisen in Pigs and Blocks: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Badgers Illustrated Catalogue of Cast Iron Architecture (reference)

• Cast Iron Cooking for Dummies (reference)

• Griswold cast iron : with prices (reference)

• Home on the Range: Cast Iron Recipes for Success (reference)

• Lodge Presents Chef John Folse's Cast Iron Cooking (reference)

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High Tech

• Fetco International Mosaic Shards with Cast Iron Border 4 X 6 (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Cast Iron Skillet Set (3-pc.) (reference)

• Lodge 20-by-10.4-Inch Pro Cast Iron Reversible Grill/Griddle (reference)

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Cast iron column; column capital. Measured drawing delineated by U. J. Theriot and A. Boyd Cruise, April 1940. (Reproduction Number: HABS LA-53, sheet 21 of 26; negative number LC-USZA3-5) The cast-iron column and capital shown here in this HABS measured drawing are distinguishing features of the Le Pretre Mansion in the famous French Quarter of New Orleans. Built around 1836, the mansion is named after its second owner, Jean Baptiste Le Pretre, a local merchant who added the second- and third-story cast-iron balconies to the exterior after 1850. The mansion is also known for its high basement, the first of its kind to be built in the French Quarter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Beebe Windmill, Bridgehampton, New York. Floor 4; Brake wheel with iron bevel cogs, cast iron bevel wallower. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, NY,52-BRIG,4-6). Credit: Library of Congress.

Two office buildings for B.F. Saul (15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Cast iron pilaster and rosettes. Details] / Dahlstrom Metallic Door Co., Jamestown, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Scrap metal piled at the yards of a large foundry of a machine tool builder. Scrap is an important element in making high-grade cast iron for machine tools. Credit: Library of Congress.

New Orleans architecture. Cast iron grillwork house near Lee Circle on Saint Charles Avenue. Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

Aluminum and magnesium usage will increase in automotive applications as steel and cast iron usage in that sector declines. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

It has a major ferrous metal industry, producing cast iron, steel, and steel pipe, and its chemical industry produces coke, mineral fertilizers, and sulfuric acid. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cast iron": alloy cast iron ♦ ferritic malleable cast iron ♦ graphitic cast iron ♦ malleable cast iron ♦ refined cast iron ♦ whiteheart malleable cast iron. Additional references.

Afrikaans

gietysterpot (cast iron pot). (various references)

Albanian

prej gize, i paepur (adamant, dogged, firm, hard bitten, hard boiled, implacable, indefatigable, indomitable, inexorable, inflexible, pertinacious, rigid, stiff, tough, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding), i gizës, i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set), gizë (pig iron). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حديد الزهر, ‏حديد الصب, ‏صلب (adamant, aguish, callosity, callous, concrete, consolidate, corneous, cross oneself, crucifixion, crucify, cruel, firm, harden, horny, inflexible, loin, metallic, out and out, persistent, ramrod, resistant, rigid, robust, sear, solid, solidary, stabile, stark, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, temper, tenacious, tough, unkind, unyielding). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чугунен, чугун (iron, pig, pig iron), непреклонен (adamant, adamantine, austere, implacable, inexorable, inexpiable, inflexible, iron-bound, ironclad, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rugged, stern, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding). (various references)

Czech

litinový, litina, dokonalý (accomplished, consummate, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, perfect, proficient, thorough, unqualified, utter, very), železný (ferriferous, ferruginous, iron, steely). (various references)

Danish

stoebejern (refined cast iron), støbejern (pig iron). (various references)

Dutch

ruwijzer (pig iron), gietstuk, gietijzer (pig iron). (various references)

Finnish

valurauta. (various references)

French

fonte (casting). (various references)

German

gusseisen (pig iron). (various references)

Greek 

μαντέμι, χυτοσίδηροσ, χυτοσίδηρος (pig iron). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוצק (cast, compact, firm, hard, massive, solid, substantial), יצקת (fondant), איתן (firm, immovable, mighty, perennial, permanent, solid, steady, strong, sturdy, substantial), חזק (firm, forceful, forcible, forte, hard, intense, intensive, mighty, potent, powerful, stiff, strong, tough), ברזל יציק�" (pig iron, sow). (various references)

Hungarian

merev (angular, austere, ceremonious, hard and fast, hard-shell, inductile, inflexible, muscle bound, rigid, stark, steady, stiff, stiff style, tense, unwinking, unyielding, wooden), hajlíthatatlan (cast-iron, non-ductile, relentless, unbendable, unbending), öntöttvas (cast-iron). (various references)

Italian

ghisa (pig iron). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鋳鉄. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちゅうてつ (Chinese philosophy). (various references)

Manx

yiarn tilgit, yiarn cummit (wrought iron). (various references)

Pig Latin

astcay ironay.(various references)

Portuguese

ferro fundido. (various references)

Romanian

rigid (angular, buckram, hard and fast, hard set, harsh, incompressible, inflexible, rigid, rigidly, stark, steady, stern, stiff, stiffly, strait laced, wooden), neînduplecat (hard bitten, inexorable, inflexible, relentless, rigid, rugged, sticky, unyielding), fontã (pig iron), de fontã, de fier (iron, irony, steely). (various references)

Russian 

чугун (crude iron). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

liveno gvožde, liveno gvožđe. (various references)

Spanish

hierro fundido, hierro colado, fundición (casting, font, forge, foundry, fount, fusion, ironworks, meltdown, melting, melting-house, smelting), fuerte (able, bad, big, bold, bouncing, brawny, burly, cogent, ebullient, fierce, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, full-blooded, grievous, hard, Hardy, heady, hearty, heavy, hefty, high, intense, long, loud, lurid, lusty, manly, metier, mighty, potent, powerful, raw, ripe, robust, rugged, severe, sharp, sharply, solid, spanking, stiff, stoutly, strident, strong, sturdy, telling, throbbing, tough, vigorous). (various references)

Swedish

gjutjärn. (various references)

Turkish

sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), sağlam (able bodied, bankable, bouncing, calculable, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, firm, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, gilt-edged, good, granitic, Hale, hard, healthy, hearty, indissoluble, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, valid, whole), pikten yapılmış, pik (pig), dayanıklı (consolidated, durable, enduring, fast, firm, for hard wear, gritty, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, impervious, impregnable, indestructible, invulnerable, keeping, lasting, long lasting, nonperishable, patient, proof, refractory, resistant, resistant to, resolute, runproof, sedulous, serviceable, sturdy, substantial, substantive, supportable, tough, unfading, wiry), dökme demir (ingot iron), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent). (various references)

Turkmen 

зoяun (r). (various references)

Vietnamese 

gang (crude iron, pig-iron). (various references)

Welsh

haearn bwrw. (various references)

Misspellings

"Cast Iron" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: castiron. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carotins.

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+1 letter: anoretics, carrotins, caryotins, cilantros, consortia, constrain, contrails, crayonist, creations, croissant, fractions, narcotics, raincoats, reactions, romantics, suctorian, tractions, transonic.

+2 letters: accretions, anchorites, anorectics, antechoirs, ascription, astronomic, carnations, carnotites, cartoonish, cartoonist, castration, chromatins, constrains, constraint, containers, contraries, costarring, crayonists, cremations, crenations, croissants, discordant, fascinator, fornicates, furcations, incubators, indicators, manticores, monarchist, morticians, narcotizes, octonaries, organicist, prolactins, redactions, suctorians, syndicator, transsonic, ultrasonic, unactorish.