steam
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
fencing
food
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: steams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: steams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: steaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: steamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: steamed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The act of cooking by steaming.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Give the carrots a ten-minute steam.
gloss: Internal energy for progress or motive power.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
gloss: Pent-up anger.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
gloss: A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
Steam also takes charge of South Eastern (former P.L.M.) trains from Paris to Marseilles and the Riviera from Lyons onwards, and of Western Region trains from Le Mans onwards, as also between Paris and Dieppe and Le Havre.
gloss: Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any exhalation.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: a steam of rich, distilled perfumes
gloss: Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To cook with steam.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
gloss: To be cooked with steam.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The artichokes are steaming in the pot.
I'm steaming in this coat.
gloss: To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to steam wood or cloth
gloss: To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Until recently the mainstay of the line were four 2-8-2 + 2-8-2 Garratts, built for its opening. One is still steamed regularly, and there is no intention of breaking up the others, but the line has now been dieselised.
"We will give 198 a full exam. Then steam her, and operate her for the rest of the season.
gloss: To produce or vent steam.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: See, ſee, my Brother's Ghoſt hangs hovering there, / O're his vvarm Blood, that ſteems into the Air, / Revenge, Revenge it cries.
I found that the Chapelon steamed almost too freely, because on a strange locomotive and road one usually tends to overfire a little through a natural lack of confidence.
gloss: To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
[T]he diſſolved Amber vvas plainly diſcernable ſvvimming like a thin film upon the ſurface of the Liquor, vvhence little by little it ſteamed avvay into the air.
gloss: To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
gloss: To make angry.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
gloss: To cover with condensed water vapor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
A strong sirocco was blowing the spray from the waves as far as the little café, whose glass doors were shut. The café reeked of brewing sage and human beings whose breath steamed the windows because of the cold outside.
gloss: To travel by means of steam power.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We steamed around the Mediterranean.
The ship steamed out of the harbour.
“Yes, Tennington, of course,” ventured Clayton; “it must be a bully idea if you had it, but what the deuce is it? Goin’ to steam to China via the south pole?”
We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.
gloss: To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
literally
examples: If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
The No on 35 drive garnered the support of Black, Asian, and progressive church communities, and steamed to victory with 58 percent of the vote on Nov. 6.
That was the hard work largely done as the Ivorian waited for Malouda to steam into the box before releasing a simple crossed pass which the Frenchman side-footed home with aplomb.
gloss: To exhale.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: like inward fire that outward smoke had steemd
gloss: Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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"
Unlike the Web, old-fashioned steam television must be viewed in sequence in order to pick out those rare bits of useful information.
In the old days of steam journalism, after cleft sticks had been phased out but before the advent of e-mail, there used to be a fairly sure-fire way of getting your story to the news desk.
Fox has been at Capital since 1988, where he lurks a little in the shadow of Chris Tarrant, the radio station's monolithic star who has helmed the plum breakfast show slot since the steam radio dawn of time.
Antonyms: electric
Derived words: aerosteam
blow off one's steam
blow off steam
build up steam
by steam
double steam
full steam
full steam ahead
gain steam
gather steam
head of steam
in steam
let off steam
live steam
nonsteam
non-steam
one engine in steam
pick up steam
raise steam
run out of steam
steam accumulator
steam age
steam bath
steam beer
steamboat
steam-boat
steam boiler
steam car
steam carriage
steam chest
steam coal
steam condenser
steam cooker
steam-crack
steam-cracked
steam cracker
steam cracking
steam crane
steam devil
steam digester
steam distillation
steam dome
steam donkey
steam drier
steam drum
steam engine
steam fair
steam festival
steamfitter
steamfitting
steam fog
steam generator
steam gun
steam hammer
steam-hauled
steam-heat
steam heater
steam heating
steamie
steam iron
steam jack
steam jacket
steamless
steamlike
steamliner
steam loco
steam locomotive
steam lorry
steam navvy
steam organ
steam-packet
steam piano
steam pipe
steampipe
Steam Plains
steam power
steam-powered
steamproof
steampunk
steam radio
steam railroad
steam reforming
steamroll
steam roller
steamroller
steam room
steam ship
steam-ship
steamship
steam shovel
steam-shovel
steamsona
steamtable
steam table
steamtight
steam tractor
steam train
steam tunnel
steam turbine
steam wagon
steamway
steamy
steam yacht
under one's own steam
asteam
outsteam
oversteam
presteam
steamable
steam ahead
steamer
steaming
steam off
steam up
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