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COLD STEEL

Specialty Definition: COLD STEEL

DomainDefinition

Literature

Cold Steel The persuasion of cold steel is persuasion enforced at the point of the sword or bayonet. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: COLD STEEL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arms

Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: COLD STEEL

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Cold Steel (1929)

Cold Steel (1921)

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

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Commercial Usage: COLD STEEL

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Photo Album: COLD STEEL

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: COLD STEEL

AuthorQuotation

Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold steel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: COLD STEEL

Expression using "COLD STEEL": fight with cold steel. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COLD STEEL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cold steel

341

cold steel sword cane

3

cold steel knife

181

cold steel knife company

3

cold steel sword

15

blue cold steel

3

cold steel katana

11

cold steel peace keeper

3

cold steel tanto

10

cold steel tomahawk

3

cold steel ti lite

7

cold steel inc

3

cold steel voyager

4

cold steel recon

2

cold steel srk

4

cold steel culloden

2

cold steel tool work

4

cold steel master hunter

2

cold steel trailmaster

4

cold steel america

2

city cold steel stick

3

black cold steel talon

2

bowie cold steel

3

cold steel body jewelry

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COLD STEEL

Language Translations for "COLD STEEL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

armë e ftohtë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سلاح فولاذي, ‏سلاح أبيض. (various references)

   

French

  

arme blanche. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פ'יון (bayonet, dagger, poniard, stiletto), חרב (arid, desolate, destroyed, knife, parched, ruined, steel, sword, waste), שק קר. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szúró- és vágófegyverek. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

刀剣 (swords). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

とうけ" (a fighting dog, dogfighting, hangingupside down, swords). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oldcay eelstay

   

Portuguese

  

armas brancas. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se bate cu arme albe (fight with cold steel). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

холодное оружие (arme blanche, cold iron arms, cold steel arms). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hierro frío, arma blanca (cutting and thrusting weapons). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çelik niteliği, çelik kılıç, çelik bıçak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COLD STEEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-l-l-o-s-t"

-1 letter: closeted, colleted.

-2 letters: cestode, coldest, collets, escoted.

-3 letters: celled, cellos, closed, closet, collet, costed, eldest, elects, oldest, select, stoled, tolled.

-4 letters: cedes, cello, cells, celts, cetes, clods, close, clots, codes, coeds, colds, coled, coles, colts, coset, coted, cotes, decos, deets, deles, dells, delts, doest, dolce, doles, dolls, dolts, dotes, elect, escot, leets, lodes, losel.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-l-l-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: decollates, decolletes.

 

+3 letters: adolescently, clotheslined, constellated, decolletages.

 

+4 letters: collectedness, collectivised, tredecillions.

 

+5 letters: dialectologies.

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

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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