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Steam
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- 1 Old-fashioned; from before the digital age. not-comparable
"Tom Earle, a CBC radio veteran now compiling audio archives in Ottawa, used to refer to the medium in which he worked as "steam radio""
- 1 The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature). uncountable, usually
- 2 Initialism of serial time-encoded amplified microscopy. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 3 water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere wordnet
- 4 The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.; Mist, fog. uncountable, usually
- 5 Abbreviation of science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics, a grouping of several fields of education. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
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- 6 The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.; Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation. uncountable, usually
- 7 Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy. uncountable, usually
- 8 The act of cooking by steaming. uncountable, usually
"Give the carrots a ten-minute steam."
- 9 Internal energy for progress or motive power. figuratively, uncountable, usually
"After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam."
- 10 Pent-up anger. figuratively, uncountable, usually
"Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam."
- 11 A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use. uncountable, usually
"Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R."
- 12 Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle. uncountable, usually
- 13 Any exhalation. obsolete, uncountable, usually
"a steam of rich, distilled perfumes"
- 14 Fencing without the use of any electric equipment. uncountable, usually
- 1 To cook with steam. transitive
"The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them."
- 2 cook something by letting steam pass over it wordnet
- 3 To be cooked with steam. figuratively, intransitive
"The artichokes are steaming in the pot."
- 4 clean by means of steaming wordnet
- 5 To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing. transitive
"to steam wood or cloth"
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- 6 get very agitated or angry wordnet
- 7 To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive. transitive
""We will give 198 a full exam. Then steam her, and operate her for the rest of the season."
- 8 travel by means of steam power wordnet
- 9 To produce or vent steam. intransitive
"See, ſee, my Brother's Ghoſt hangs hovering there, / O're his vvarm Blood, that ſteems into the Air, / Revenge, Revenge it cries."
- 10 rise as vapor wordnet
- 11 To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour. intransitive
"Our breath steamed in the cold winter air."
- 12 emit steam wordnet
- 13 To become angry; to fume; to be incensed. figuratively, intransitive
- 14 To make angry. figuratively, transitive
"It really steams me to see her treat him like that."
- 15 To cover with condensed water vapor. transitive
"With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car."
- 16 To travel by means of steam power. intransitive
"We steamed around the Mediterranean."
- 17 To move with great or excessive purposefulness. figuratively, literally
"If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them."
- 18 To exhale. obsolete
"like inward fire that outward smoke had steemd"
Etymology
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
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