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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cold Steel The persuasion of cold steel is persuasion enforced at the point of the sword or bayonet. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cold Steel (1929) Cold Steel (1921) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & 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. |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
Expression using "COLD STEEL": fight with cold steel. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 armas brancas. (various references) se bate cu arme albe (fight with cold steel). (various references) холодное оружие (arme blanche, cold iron arms, cold steel arms). (various references) hierro frío, arma blanca (cutting and thrusting weapons). (various references) çelik niteliği, çelik kılıç, çelik bıçak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 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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