Iron Out

  

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Iron Out

Definition: Iron Out

Iron Out

Verb

1. Settle or put right; of difficulties or problems.

2. Press and smooth with a heated iron; "press your shirts".

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


Synonyms: Iron Out

Synonyms: iron (v), put right (v), straighten out (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Iron Out

English words defined with "iron out": Bessemer steelslice bar, Swivel hook. (references)
Specialty definitions using "iron out": AIRCRAFT MECHANIC, ELECTRICAL AND RADIO, ASSEMBLER, IGNITER, assembly hand, automobile mechanic, radiator, AUTOMOBILE-RADIATOR MECHANICBerglof process, body builder, BONDED STRUCTURES REPAIRER, bonder, rework and repair, bonding-machine operatorChoke-pear, cloth inspector, cloth picker, CUPOLA CHARGER, cupola stocker, CUPOLA TENDERDIAL MAKER, DRY-WALL APPLICATOR, dry-wall nailer, durable medical equipment repairerELECTRIC-MOTOR ASSEMBLERfurnace tendergas reverser, green hole, guardplateHAT TRIMMER, Holmberg systemINK, inspector and patch worker, INSPECTOR-REPAIRERJeffrey swing-hammer crusherknot picker, cloth, Krupp-Rennloom inspectorMEDICAL-EQUIPMENT REPAIRER, Murex processoxygen lanceparts inspector, pigsticker, PIPE CHANGER, pouty, putty-and-patch workerradiator repairerscrap picker, sheetrock installer, shell mold bonder, SHELL-MOLD-BONDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, silk-top-hat-body maker, skirt clipper, SKIRT PANEL ASSEMBLER, slub picker, spooner, S-Process, STOCK-PARTS INSPECTOR, STREET-LIGHT-REPAIRER HELPER, string picker, SUPERVISOR, PIG-MACHINETalbot continuous process, TOP-HAT-BODY MAKER, TRUCK-BODY BUILDERwatch-dial maker, WEAVING INSPECTOR, wheelchair repairer. (references)

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Sounds Captioned with "Iron Out".

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Squash; flatten; smoosh; smash; abrade; beat down; bowl over; compress; crush; debase; deflate; depress; even out; fell; floor; flush; grade; ground; iron out; knock down; lay; lay low; level; mow down; plane; plaster; prostrate; raze; roll; smash; smooth.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Iron Out

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

These individuals feel more comfortable working with someone they personally, because it is easier to iron out difficulties when problems/challenges inevitably arise. (references)

Economic History

Australia

It will take Telstra at least six months to iron out all the bugs in its ADSL Internet access technology. (references)

Political Economy

Israel

The parties held intensive working-level talks between March and June, 2000, and met at Camp David in July to attempt to iron out final status issues. (references)

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

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Expression: Iron Out

Expression using "iron out": iron out differences. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Iron Out

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

iron out of drinking water

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Iron Out

Language Translations for "iron out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zgjidh (annul, arrange, cancel, dispose, dispose of, dissolve, do, resolve, settle, solve, unbind, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unlace, unleash, unlock, unravel, untie, work, work out), sheshoj (flatten, level, plaster, press out, smooth, smooth out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

слагам в ред (get together, order, straighten), изглаждам (adjust, atone, calender, face, file, level, make up, patch, patch up, plane, planish, polish, polish up, press out, reconcile, sleek, slick, smarm, smooth, sponge out). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyžehlit (to press), urovnat (adjust, arrange, even out, iron, make up, put things straight, settle). (various references)

   

French

  

aplanir. (various references)

   

German

  

ausgleichen (act as a mediator, balance, balance out, balancing, compensate, equalize, even out, fund, level off, level out, level up, make good, make up, offset, reconcile, settle, steady, to balance, to compensate, to square), ausbügeln (make good, to iron out), aus dem weg räumen (move, smooth out), aufbügeln (freshen, iron on, vamp up). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kivasal (press, to iron out, to press), elsimít (to accommodate, to compromise, to finish, to make even, to reconcile, to smooth). (various references)

   

Italian

  

stirare (iron, press, straighten, strain a muscle, stretch, to iron). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ironay outay

   

Portuguese

  

tirar (abstract, bag, deduct, disburden, dog, drag out, get, get off, haul, in force, lay hold of, lug, pick, pick up, pilfer, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, put off, remove, rip, rub out, scour, take, take away, take off, take out, tear off, vail, withdraw, wrest), locomotiva (engine, loco, locomotive). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сглаживать (downplay, even, level, smooth), разгладить (press, smooth out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

urediti (arrange, do up, fix up, lay, organize, put in order, redact, settle, tidy up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

suavizar a (ease, sugarcoat), quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, brush off, clear away, clear out, come off, encroach on, excise, get away, get off, get out, give, kill, knock off, knock out, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pick off, pinch, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw away, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), nivelar (even, flush, level, top up), allanar (even, flatten, flatten out, level, roll, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth over), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utjämna (compensate, equalize, even up, settle), undanröja (lull, obviate, remove, set aside), stryka ut (black out, blot, blue pencil, cross off, cross out, obliterate, scratch out, strike off), pressa ut (express, extort, extract, extrude). (various references)

   

Thai

  

รี"ผ้า. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ortadan kaldırmak (abolish, annihilate, blot out, charm away, clear away, clear off, do away with, extinguish, hide from view, kill, make away with, put away, put out of sight, raze, remove, suppress, sweep, sweep away, take away), gidermek (allay, appease, avert, clear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, efface, eliminate, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, obviate, quench, remove, repair, resolve, satisfy, slake, smooth away, smooth out, supply), ütüyle açmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

вирівнювати (even, flatten, level, macadamize, plane, smooth out), згладжувати (blur, efface, smooth, smooth over). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Iron Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-1 letter: unroot.

-2 letters: intro, nitro, rutin.

-3 letters: inro, into, iron, noir, nori, onto, riot, root, roti, roto, rout, ruin, runt, tiro, toon, tori, torn, toro, tour, trio, turn, unit, unto.

-4 letters: ion, nit, noo, nor, not, nut, oot, ort, our, out, rin, rot, run, rut, tin, ton, too, tor, tui, tun, urn.

-5 letters: in, it, no.

 Words containing the letters "i-n-o-o-r-t-u"
 

+2 letters: notorious, obtrusion, outrowing, pourpoint, unrooting, uprooting.

 

+3 letters: consortium, contouring, corruption, counterion, inoculator, morulation, neurotoxic, neurotoxin, nonroutine, obtrusions, obturation, orotundity, outcrowing, outgrowing, outpouring, outroaring, outrocking, outrolling, outrooting, outscoring, outsnoring, outsoaring, outworking, pourpoints, production, protrusion, resolution, revolution, serotinous, tourbillon.

 

+4 letters: aponeurotic, boutonniere, coauthoring, conjuration, consortiums, continuator, contrarious, contributor, conurbation, corrugation, corruptions, coruscation, coterminous, counterfoil, counterions, formulation, holothurian, inoculators, inopportune, luteotropin, morulations, mucoprotein, neurologist, neurotoxins, neurotropic, nitrogenous, nonauditory, nonroutines, notoriously, objurgation, obscuration, obstruction, obturations, opportunism, opportunist, opportunity, ostensorium, outcropping, outcrossing, outdropping, outfrowning, outgrossing, outhomering, outhumoring, outorganize, outpourings, outpowering, outsavoring, outscorning, outsourcing, outthrowing, outtowering, outtrotting, overcaution, positronium, procuration, productions, prosecution, protrusions, resolutions, revolutions, riotousness, sporulation, subornation, subrogation, thoroughpin, tourbillion, tourbillons, unmonitored.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Iron Out


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 72 6F 6E      4F 75 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01110010 01101111 01101110 00100000 01001111 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#114 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#79 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0072 006F 006E      004F 0075 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

438481802498786

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Iron Out"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanais, albaner, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneиталиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningsuedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, suédois, schwedisch, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський

Thai

พจนานุกรมThaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisht, ukrainas, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Sounds
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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