I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a paracetamol/quinine/iron etc tablet
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She's on iron tablets for her anaemia.
a stone/wooden/iron bridge
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The iron bridge was built in 1811.
a wooden/iron/wrought-iron gate
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Their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates.
an iron will ( also a will of iron ) (= an extremely strong will )
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Her unassuming manner concealed an iron will.
an iron/vice-like grip (= a very strong grip )
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Victor took hold of her wrist in an iron grip.
branding iron
cast iron
do the shopping/cleaning/ironing/cooking etc
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Who does the cooking in your family?
fire iron
grappling iron
Iron Age
Iron Curtain, the
iron foundry
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an iron foundry
iron lung
iron rations
ironing board
iron/vitamin etc deficiency
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Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency in their diet.
leg irons
metal/steel/iron plates
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The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.
pig iron
seam of coal/iron etc
soldering iron
steam iron
steel/iron/wooden etc rod
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The walls are reinforced with steel rods.
the Iron Age (= the period of time, about 3,000 years ago, when iron was first used for making tools, weapons etc )
waffle iron
wrought iron
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cast
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The first telephone boxes were designed by Sir Giles Scott in 1935, they were made of cast iron .
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They're shipping out cast iron baths, washbasins and tiles to the Land of the Rising Sun.
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Left: Combine heating and cooking with traditional cast iron stove style.
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Anyone want a cast iron bath?
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Built in 1836-9, it weighs 1,700t, holds 940t of water and is the largest cast iron aqueduct in the world.
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Columns of cast iron doubled as drainpipes and supports for the ceiling, which had domed skylights.
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It replaces two ole cast iron systems and will significantly increase production.
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Repairing leaks in cast iron gutters Remove the old gutter bolt.
corrugated
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Their planking was patched with corrugated iron , their roofs shingled with flattened tin cans.
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From then on, Stafford Road was flanked by a long black corrugated iron fence.
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Instead I was directed to a three-roomed brick house with corrugated iron roofing.
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Refurbished on a budget of £20, the shop is kitted out with old tyres, corrugated iron and scaffolding.
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A ground party was immediately organised to manhandle the aircraft on to sheets of corrugated iron positioned on the tarmac.
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I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here.
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The mill still stands and is a curious mixture of brick, elm, slate and corrugated iron .
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Instead, they are either covered with a corrugated iron roof or are in the street.
hot
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The blood from my wound ran over my back and chest, and the knife seemed to burn like hot iron .
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In order for this separation to have taken place, the interior must have become hot enough for iron to melt.
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This involved either burning the skin over the tendon, or inserting red hot iron pins into the tendon itself.
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It will pay to have a tough template for cutting by scalpel, hot iron or roller-cutter.
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In general, designers no longer work with a heap of transistors and a hot soldering iron .
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He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron .
old
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The candlelight revealed that the room was packed with old iron bathtubs which were full of wooden rocking horses.
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Shreds of plastic, old iron , glass, animal bones littered both sides of the path.
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An old galvanised iron cistern is liable to spring a leak eventually.
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His head must have fallen almost directly on top of one of the tall spikes that surmounted the old iron rail.
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Eventually, though, old cast iron systems will need repair.
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As we swept down to the seam in the old iron lift we all grabbed each other's hands in simultaneous panic.
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Getting rid of PAHs requires the replacement of old cast iron mains lined with coal tar paper.
wrought
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The wrought iron gate, as usual, was open and he parked in front of the house.
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Each side has a cast iron arch in 7 segments from which the iron trough is hung by 35 wrought iron rods.
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Steel, however, rusts much more quickly than wrought iron .
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Decorative projecting bricks, alcoves, wrought iron gates, and so on, are a security risk.
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There was a fancy grille like a wrought iron gate at the rear end of the dash under the stairs.
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Gates gone: Tyneside police are investigating a spate of thefts of wrought iron garden gates.
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The stained-glass windows inside, and the black wrought iron and living or artificial flowers outside, contribute vivid accents.
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Stripped floorboards teamed up with rattan furniture and wrought iron gives a look that complements.
■ NOUN
age
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It was found in what was a pool in the iron age .
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The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age.
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Madsebakke - unique iron Age rock carvings.
bar
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All the ground floor windows were fitted with iron bars , a sufficient deterrent for the average break-and-enter boys.
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Dignified old rowhouses on historic Mount Vernon Square were marred by iron bars on their windows.
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A somewhat different system simulated the effect of momentarily jamming an iron bar across the terminals in the substation.
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A heavy iron bar lay on the floor beside my left hand.
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And no sign of chains or a whip or iron bars .
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The windows are guarded with iron bars , those on the lower floors viciously spiked to keep out thieves.
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A framework of iron bars is placed across the top and this supports fine mesh netting.
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They ceased to be fortresses protected by strong doors and iron bars and became elegant shops with windows in place of grilles.
bridge
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The floodwater, carrying branches and driftwood, was over the roadway on the curved iron bridge .
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Called Tickford Bridge , it is said to be the oldest iron bridge in Britain still in constant use.
chain
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The huge beast strained at the great iron chain clasped to the collar round its neck.
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Frederick's bed is said to be still in the palace, hanging from iron chains .
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The prisoners wore handcuffs, and iron chains on their legs.
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On the floor beside her was a convict's iron chain .
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I felt sure the iron chain belonged to my convict, but I did not think he had attacked my sister.
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Above it, hanging from an old iron chain , hung a bevelled mirror.
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He was dressed in grey, too, and had an iron chain on his leg.
deficiency
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Crohn's disease is often associated with iron deficiency anaemia.
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Ten patients had died all unrelated to the iron deficiency anaemia.
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Therefore sigmoidoscopy should be mandatory as part of the investigation of patients with iron deficiency anaemia.
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The need for sigmoidoscopy in patients with obscure iron deficiency anaemia is contentious.
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This survey also allowed us to analyse the usefulness of investigations in iron deficiency anaemia in outpatients.
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The need to investigate the colon in outpatients referred with iron deficiency anaemia has not previously been assessed.
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Severe erosive oesophagitis may be a cause of iron deficiency anaemia but hiatus hernia alone seems unlikely to cause iron deficiency anaemia.
fist
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Nowadays we need the iron fist of policing in order that we might sleep soundly in our beds.
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Ace swung round, her gauntlets curled into iron fists .
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The protuberance under her fingers felt soft and hard at the same time, an iron fist in a velvet glove.
foundry
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Along the length of the railway line were timber yards, rope works, maltings and an iron foundry .
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Livings was their architect for the iron foundry at Stockton, which John now had ideas of enlarging.
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They also make more noise than two iron foundries having a fight.
gate
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Within a dozen yards, I came to a set of iron gates closing off the steps east of the high altar.
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An ornate iron gate presided over its entrance.
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They walked towards the tall iron gates of the school.
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The wrought iron gate , as usual, was open and he parked in front of the house.
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Each house had an iron gate and a short tiled path up to the front door.
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I awoke to find myself still standing before the water-colour painting of the curled iron gate .
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Decorative projecting bricks, alcoves, wrought iron gates , and so on, are a security risk.
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At the entrance to the driveway were large iron gates .
grip
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She was just about to call out when she felt the iron grip of an arm clasped round her throat.
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So although Milosevic s iron grip over Kosovo was an embarrassment for the West, it was a convenience too.
hand
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Its political platform is brief: the iron hand against Communism to save private enterprise.
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This theology slipped over the iron hand of the capitalist market like a silk glove.
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Smith said that Coleman was a dictator and monopolist, ruling with an iron hand in military and civil life.
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The iron hand of the Conservative administration's first 5 years gave way to sermons on personal responsibility.
leg
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From now on, these items will be included in the existing export ban of leg irons , shackles and gang chains.
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Only the eerie tinkle of leg irons and shouted commands break the silence.
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Prohibited items should include gallows and leg irons .
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The first man picked up the end and threaded it through the loop on his leg iron .
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There they had spent fourteen days in solitary confinement, chained in heavy leg irons and fed only on dry rice.
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The leg irons of the white prisoners inside were clattering.
lung
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Hospitals often grouped iron lungs in the open space around the nurses' station or even in view in the hallways.
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Encased in iron lungs , tortured victims vainly chased slumber through long, fitful nights.
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Ideally, hospitals provided each iron lung patient a single nurse, but few hospitals could manage that, especially during epidemics.
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When possible, nurses took patients out of their iron lungs for bathing and cleaning.
ore
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Many of the ships also carried iron ore .
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Supplies of the raw material, iron ore , changed.
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The greater abundance of iron ores over those of copper also meant that iron was more readily obtainable and cheaper.
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These ironworks were built in 173 6 and were worked for 130 years, exploiting local iron ore deposits.
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The iron and steel industry of Rotherham exists because long ago iron ore was mined locally as well as coal.
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Most of this local iron ore was mined from shallow pits and from adits dug into the valley sides.
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Here there are thick deposits of iron ore near the base of some rocks of oolitic limestone which are of Jurassic age.
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The iron ore is easily extracted by quarrying with giant excavators.
oxide
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One of the most popular has been carnelian, which owes its reddish colour to the presence of iron oxide .
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The gas was to reduce iron oxide to make iron which could later be fed to a steel works.
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Rust, iron oxide , is weak mechanically although its chemical bonds are strong.
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Traditionally, iron oxide is converted to the metal in a blast furnace.
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This coloration shows the presence of iron oxides .
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Mineralisation within the nodules consists of uranium, vanadium and iron oxides with base metal sulphides.
railing
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Terrified, Mildred backed away and crashed into something hard, which seemed to be a huge iron railing towering above her.
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He paused when he saw her by the iron railings that separated mown lawn from pasture.
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The cottage still has a panel of slender iron railings in front.
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She could see the iron railings of the park, the glitter of wet pavement.
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The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers.
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The iron railings were so dusty, they looked grey, not black.
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Nightshade House was separated from the street by a flagged courtyard, the general approach defended by iron railings .
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The Mount was a shadow in the air and the iron railings along the promenade dripped globules of moisture.
rod
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Each side has a cast iron arch in 7 segments from which the iron trough is hung by 35 wrought iron rods .
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It led to the birth of the jumper a slender iron rod with a chisel-end forged by the mine smiths.
steam
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I have one rule - I never use a steam iron on my lace jumpers.
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It is the vapour tank that is the key to the machine's alleged superiority over other steam irons .
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Throwaway society Over the last year, I have had to replace my steam iron and hairdryer that had both developed faults.
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The old cracked mug, the steam iron , odd pieces of cutlery and the reading lamp.
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I could not live without a steam iron , or an electric kettle.
■ VERB
pump
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And keeping in shape with her is a lot better than pumping iron .
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Before I met her I used to pump iron .
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They pump iron for hours every morning.
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Yes, even his face was muscular, as though he pumped iron with his ears.
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In any case, farmer's boys have no time to make hay before they are pumping iron not milk.
strike
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Maybe he would even mount a punitive expedition tonight, striking while the iron was hot, and all that.
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So, it should strike while the iron is hot and go to the country as soon as possible.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clap sb in prison/jail/irons
galvanized iron/metal etc
iron out the wrinkles
pump iron
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And keeping in shape with her is a lot better than pumping iron.
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Before I met her I used to pump iron.
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In any case, farmer's boys have no time to make hay before they are pumping iron not milk.
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They pump iron for hours every morning.
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Yes, even his face was muscular, as though he pumped iron with his ears.
rule sb with an iron fist/hand
rule sb/sth with a rod of iron
strike while the iron is hot
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Don't wait until tomorrow before you tell him, strike while the iron is hot!
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So, it should strike while the iron is hot and go to the country as soon as possible.
the Iron Age
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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iron ore
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a window with iron bars on it
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My doctor said I need more iron in my diet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron .
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Prohibited items should include gallows and leg irons.
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Start with a five-hundred pound piece of cast iron sitting on the floor.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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It's about time he got his six iron out for a birdie.
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Frequent face-to-face meetings iron out any problems and come up with interface and process improvements.
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The finer details of the proposals from Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine still have to be ironed out .
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And because the band went into a rehab center to iron out its differences, rumors spread about drug use.
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Although the first generation of women priests had to fight to assert their identity, those problems have been ironed out .
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The briefing indicated that the two sides still have substantial differences to iron out .
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Most of the notorious grade anomalies have been ironed out and the colour photos should whet people's appetites.
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As it happened, the resolution of this issue never really reached the stage of the researchers ironing out their differences.
■ NOUN
problem
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If something doesn't happen it's your responsibility to iron any problems out.
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Frequent face-to-face meetings iron out any problems and come up with interface and process improvements.
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They know exactly who can help you buy a train ticket, who can iron away which problem .
shirt
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Diana was so chummy with him she even used to iron his shirts .
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Margaret had ironed me some shirts and draped them over a clothes-horse in the hail.
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Well, he can iron his best shirts .
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As the neatly ironed shirt billows out a special effect signifies the effects of Bold.
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Do you want to iron his shirts for 50 years?
■ VERB
wash
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I wished for a new dress as I washed and ironed my old yellow home-made mini for the hundredth time.
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Saturdays and she was tired and worn out with the cleaning, shopping, washing , ironing .
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Encourage residents to wash and iron their clothes where their eyesight and co-ordination are good.
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The following afternoon he struggled into the white loons, which he had washed and ironed himself.
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All washing and ironing is outsourced.
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She was soon taking in washing and ironing , the time-honored work of black women.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
galvanized iron/metal etc
iron out the wrinkles
the Iron Age
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I need to iron a few shirts for my trip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he conceded that there were some kinks to iron out.
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She ironed their tiny strips of white embroidered cuffs and collars herself, and sewed them on fresh nearly every day.
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The finer details of the proposals from Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine still have to be ironed out.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fist
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But he offered not only an iron fist to Hanoi there was a velvet glove also.
hand
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Privileges and prerogatives are revoked; the iron hand of supervisory control is brought to bear.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clap sb in prison/jail/irons
iron out the wrinkles
pump iron
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And keeping in shape with her is a lot better than pumping iron.
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Before I met her I used to pump iron.
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In any case, farmer's boys have no time to make hay before they are pumping iron not milk.
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They pump iron for hours every morning.
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Yes, even his face was muscular, as though he pumped iron with his ears.
rule sb with an iron fist/hand
rule sb/sth with a rod of iron
strike while the iron is hot
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Don't wait until tomorrow before you tell him, strike while the iron is hot!
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So, it should strike while the iron is hot and go to the country as soon as possible.
the Iron Age
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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iron discipline
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he offered not only an iron fist to Hanoi there was a velvet glove also.
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He lay on his narrow iron bed, whose cheap cotton slip was decorated with repeated figures of Donald Duck.
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New Labour is itself a product of the iron cage.
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She went quickly; by afternoon, she was in the iron lung and she died the next morning.
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The addition of iron oxide produced a darker brown colour in the glaze under reducing conditions.
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This is a fast-paced, heartwarming story of a huge iron man who emerges from the sea to terrify the neighborhood.
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This is because the center of gravity of the hammer is in the iron part.
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Those that had iron gratings locked them across the plate glass.