steam

IPA: stˈim

noun

  • The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.
  • The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air
  • mist, fog
  • Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation
  • Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
  • The act of cooking by steaming.
  • (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
  • (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
  • A steam-powered vehicle.
  • Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
  • (obsolete) Any exhalation.
  • (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
  • Initialism of serial time-encoded amplified microscopy. [(electronics) A very fast real-time optical imaging technique.]
  • Abbreviation of science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics. [(countable) A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.]

verb

  • (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
  • (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
  • (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
  • (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
  • (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
  • (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
  • (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
  • (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
  • (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
  • (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
  • (obsolete) To exhale.

adjective

  • Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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Examples of "steam" in Sentences

  • Steam is the gaseous form of water.
  • The gaseous phase of water is steam.
  • The steam heats the water in the tank.
  • Some of the steam condenses and heats the water.
  • Heat from the steam set off the sprinkler system.
  • The steam and high heat caused bathers to perspire.
  • The fleet was dissolved by the rise of the steam engine.
  • Expansion of the steam under water pressure causes the implosion.
  • The first attempt to mechanize it was by using a steam powered engine.
  • For all these purposes, the steam engine and the engineer were indispensable.

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