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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