STEELWORKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steelworks mean? 

• STEELWORKS (noun)
  The noun STEELWORKS has 1 sense:

1. a factory where steel is made

  Familiarity information: STEELWORKS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEELWORKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A factory where steel is made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

steel factory; steel mill; steel plant; steelworks

Hypernyms ("steelworks" is a kind of...):

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)

Meronyms (parts of "steelworks"):

Bessemer converter (a refractory-lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process)

blast furnace (a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air)

electric-arc furnace; Stassano furnace (an electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steelworks"):

rolling mill (steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars)