STEEL FACTORY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A factory where steel is made

Synonyms:

steel factory; steel mill; steel plant; steelworks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("steel factory" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "steel factory"):

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 "steel factory"):

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