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.
- Albany in what he called a steam vessel named the _Clermont_.
- 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.
- The percentage by weight of steam in a mixture of steam and water is called the _quality of the steam_.
- Simmering down: A small plume of ash, dust and steam is seen coming from the Iceland volcano which caused travel chaos
- He says demand won't really gain steam until passengers feel that the recession is firmly in the rearview mirror and it is safe to spend.
- So, this is what we called steam fog, which is developed across the area, really kind of an eerie sight to wake up and see that kind of hovering over the ocean.
- Haig, bald and fuming as if steam is about to issue not only from his ears but also from his fingertips, always stands at a 60-degree angle -- or darts here and there at the same tottering slant.
- Now they had made a thing which they called a steam-ram, an iron-covered boat, like unto a serpent, even like unto the evil beast which crawleth upon its belly, eating dirt, as do many of those who made it.
- Only once the independent comics (aka "comix") movement gathered steam from the late 1980s to early in the new millennium did at least a portion of the industry dare to provide the variety of sequential-art narratives that would appeal to a large audience.
- A thousand generations had lived and died, an immense volume of history had been enacted, the heroes of all the ages, and almost those of our own time, had fulfilled their destinies and passed away, before it came about that a mere physical fact should fill a larger place in our lives than all examples, and that the evanescent vapor which we call steam should change daily, and effectively, the courses and modes of human action, and erect life upon another plane.