steam
see also: STEAM
Etymology
STEAM
Noun
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see also: STEAM
Etymology
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam, from Proto-Germanic *staumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-.
Pronunciation Nounsteam (uncountable)
- 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
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Give the carrots a ten-minute steam.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
- 1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen, page 129:
- Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
- A steam-powered vehicle.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- (obsolete) Any exhalation.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC ↗:
- a steam of rich, distilled perfumes
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- (a steam-powered vehicle) steamer
- (antonym(s) of “fencing”): electric
- French: vapeur d'eau, vapeur
- German: Wasserdampf, Dampf
- Italian: vapore
- Portuguese: vapor
- Russian: пар
- Spanish: vapor
- Russian: гнев
- Russian: испаре́ние
steam (steams, present participle steaming; simple past and past participle steamed)
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- The artichokes are steaming in the pot.
- I'm steaming in this coat.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- to steam wood or cloth
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- 1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC ↗, Act III, scene iii, page 36 ↗:
- See, ſee, my Brother's Ghoſt hangs hovering there, / O're his vvarm Blood, that ſteems into the Air, / Revenge, Revenge it cries.
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, “[Two Essays, Concerning the Unsuccessfulness of Experiments, Containing Divers Admonitions and Observations (Chiefly Chymical) Touching that Subject.] The First Essay, of the Unsuccessfulness of Experiments.”, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1669, →OCLC ↗, page 66 ↗:
- [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.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- We steamed around the Mediterranean.
- The ship steamed out of the harbour.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
- (obsolete) To exhale.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- like inward fire that outward smoke had steemd
- See also Thesaurus:cook
steam (not comparable)
- Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
STEAM
Noun
steam (uncountable)
- Initialism of serial time-encoded amplified microscopy
- Abbreviation of science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics
- STEM science, technology, engineering, mathematics
- STEMM science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine
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